Field Notes & Case Studies

Building in Public.
Shipping with Urgency.

Breakdowns of everything I build — from 10-hour hackathon prototypes to production platforms serving 8+ countries. All managed with Claude Code.

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Public Repos

GSoC 2026

GSoC 2026: Numba-Optimized scikit-bio

Accepted with NumFOCUS/scikit-bio to replace performance-critical Cython paths with Numba CPU and GPU implementations for bioinformatics workflows.

GSoC NumFOCUS Numba Bioinformatics
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Civic Tech

Open Permit

From 10-hour hackathon to civic intelligence platform. 8+ countries, 200+ permits, 40 legal frameworks. Code4Compassion winner & AARC Pre-Accelerator.

Civic Tech AI Live Product
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HealthTech

Knight Medicare

Building accessible mental health infrastructure with AI-assisted CBT therapy. 27 disorders, 10 therapy modalities, Harvard PhD co-founder.

HealthTech Startup CTO
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EdTech

The Adventurers Guild

Connecting CS students with real-world projects through RPG-inspired learning. 500+ users, GSSoC 2025 participant, F-to-S ranking system.

EdTech Gamification 500+ Users
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Space Tech

LunaBot

Autonomous lunar reconnaissance rover scouting landing sites before Artemis III astronauts arrive. NASA Space Apps Challenge finalist.

Robotics Space Tech NASA
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Open Source

Selected OSS Contributions

Reviewer-approved work across scientific Python, sustainability tooling, developer infrastructure, and Open Paws production repos.

Open Source Contributions
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GitHub

Recent GitHub Work: May 2026

What the latest public PRs show: de-hallucination tooling, security hardening, Guild operations, and production readiness work.

GitHub PRs May 2026
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Leadership

Open Paws: SWE to Local Director

From software engineer to Local Director & second shareholder of Open Paws India Pvt Ltd. The full story of a role evolution.

Open Paws Leadership
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Workflow

How Claude Code Manages Everything

Running 11 projects across 4 domains with Claude Code as the operational backbone. ~6–7 sessions/day, full workflow breakdown.

Claude Code Workflow Operations
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DevOps

Infrastructure: 29 Services, Yotta Migration

The Supabase India block, self-hosted cloud evaluation, 63% cost reduction, and the abstraction layer strategy across 11 projects.

Infrastructure DevOps 63% Cost Cut
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Civic Tech

AFOG → Open Permit

The origin story of AFOG (Animal-Friendly Open Government) and how it evolved into the Open Permit civic intelligence platform.

Civic Tech AI Hackathon
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Research

LEWS: Lock-in Early Warning System

Predicting when emerging animal technologies approach irreversibility. Built at C4C Berlin. Full methodology, model design, and results.

Predictive Data Science EA
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AI/ML

RAG Chatbot Portfolio

Building intelligent knowledge systems: from podcast transcripts to resource databases. Full implementation breakdown.

AI/LLM RAG
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Education

Gemini Ambassador

Bringing cutting-edge AI tools to students through workshops and community building. The Google Gemini Ambassador program experience.

Community Education
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Career

Building in Public

Lessons from balancing college, a CTO role, hackathons, and personal growth — all at once. The honest account.

Career Growth
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Research

Research Roadmap: From Projects to Papers

Five concrete research paper opportunities grounded in real project work — LEWS methodology, civic AI, speciesist language detection, and more.

Research Academia Papers
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