GSoC 2026 accepted - NumFOCUS / scikit-bio

Abid Khan builds AI, open-source, and civic tech that ships.

Full-Stack & AI/ML Engineer | Open Source Builder | CTO @ Knight Medicare. Building AI-powered civic tools, gamified dev platforms, and healthcare tech. GSoC 2026 @ NumFOCUS.

Abi 19 years old Computer Engineering, GTU - GIDC Navsari India, UTC+5:30
GSoC2026 accepted
500+Adventurers Guild users
8+OSS repos contributed to
NASARegional Finalist

Current Roles

What Abid is doing now

Current real-world commitments as of May 2026, led by GSoC and active product work across healthcare, animal welfare AI, and developer ecosystems.

Google Summer of Code 2026

Contributor @ NumFOCUS / scikit-bio

Accepted

Implementing Numba-optimized algorithms for performance-critical bioinformatics functions. Mentors: Igor Sfiligoi (SDSC), Qiyun Zhu (ASU). Accepted May 2026.

Rapid Impact Developer

Open Paws

Active

Building AI tools for animal advocacy, including chatbots, permit objection systems, and campaign automations.

CTO & Co-Founder

Knight Medicare

Building

AI-powered healthcare startup co-founded with a Harvard MD. Building clinical AI tools for diagnosis support and patient data management.

Google Gemini Campus Ambassador

Google

Campus

Representing the Google AI and Gemini ecosystem on campus.

Projects

Flagship builds and active bets

Project cards include the current status, stack, and links. Adventurers Guild leads because it is the flagship public product.

Open Permit (AFOG)

Civic AI for legal permit objections

Live

Auto-generates legal objections to factory farm and planning permit proposals across 8 countries and 37 legal frameworks. Born at Code 4 Compassion hackathon, Mumbai. Under consideration for a16z Speedrun SR007 and submitted for the O'Shaughnessy Fellowship.

JavaScriptAI/NLPVercel

Knight Medicare

Clinical AI tools

In Development

AI-powered healthcare startup building diagnosis support and patient data management tools. Abid is CTO & Co-Founder, co-founded with a Harvard MD.

Full-stackSupabaseAI

NASA Space Apps - Civilization in Space

Simulation and data project

Regional Finalist

Simulation/data project for NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024. Achievement: Regional Finalist.

Python

Pocket Quant

AI crypto portfolio analytics

Planning

AI-powered crypto portfolio analytics tool inspired by Polymarket strategy research and 86M+ free trade data from poly_data.

PythonTypeScriptAI/ML

Guild Protocol

Verifiable developer credentials

Concept

Verifiable on-chain credentials for developers. Pitched at VibeCon.

BlockchainTypeScript

Open Source

Selected contributions

Verified public work across scientific Python, developer infrastructure, docs, climate tooling, and sustainability repositories.

86public repos
8+OSS repos contributed to
GSoCNumFOCUS / scikit-bio
PR #4107daytona merged
ProjectPRWhat
scikit-bio (NumFOCUS)#2429, #2436GSoC 2026 - Numba-optimized bioinformatics algorithms
daytona#4107Merged Mar 2026
thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers (3.6K stars)#1700Fixed README anchor for matcher usage docs
nextflow-io/nextflow (3.3K stars)#6869Clarified Path.name behavior for staged process paths
scverse/scanpy#3986Reduced duplicated parameter docs
mlco2/codecarbon#1080, #1081CLI robustness and quickstart docs
sustainable-computing-io/kepler#2431Minimal install path without Prometheus Operator
protontypes/open-sustainable-technology#1369Fixed broken sustainability resource links

Recent GitHub

What the latest public PRs show

Recent activity clusters around AI trust, security hardening, product operations, and developer tooling rather than vanity contribution counts.

desloppify intelligence gate

Open-Paws/desloppify #36

Merged

Implemented a de-hallucination gate for API veracity so AI workflows can reject low-confidence or unsupported output before it reaches users.

Adventurers Guild security

LarytheLord/Adventurers-Guild #215

Open

Security hardening work covering TLS production guards, PII log removal, and URL sanitization for the flagship Guild platform.

Knight Medicare readiness

LarytheLord/knight-medicare #206

Open

Production readiness, security hardening, and backend enhancements for clinical AI product infrastructure.

pydantic-ai validation

pydantic/pydantic-ai #5239

Open

Strict runtime validation for tool outputs in a major Python AI framework, matching the broader focus on trustworthy AI systems.

Recognition

Achievements and recognitions

GSoC 2026 Accepted

NumFOCUS / scikit-bio, May 2026.

NASA Space Apps 2024

Regional Finalist.

GSSoC 2025

Adventurers Guild selected as a participating organization.

AARC Pre-accelerator

Completed in Bangalore.

Code 4 Compassion, Mumbai

Open Permit was born here.

IIM-A AI Summer Residency 2026

Final consideration stage.

O'Shaughnessy Fellowship 2026

Submitted for $100K equity-free fellowship.

About

Computer Engineering student, product builder, open-source contributor

Abid Khan goes by Abi. He is 19, based in India, and studies Computer Engineering at GTU (GIDC Navsari, India). His work centers on AI-powered civic tools, gamified developer platforms, healthcare technology, and scientific open source.

Builder

Ships public products like Adventurers Guild and Open Permit, with clear user workflows and live deployments.

Open Source

Contributes to production repositories across scientific Python, infra, sustainability, and developer tooling.

AI/ML

Builds AI workflows for healthcare, civic intelligence, animal advocacy, and bioinformatics performance work.

Stack

Skills and technologies

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJava

Frontend

ReactNext.jsHTML/CSS

Backend

Node.jsExpress.jsFastAPI

Database

PostgreSQLSupabase

AI/ML

TensorFlowPyTorchOpenAI APIscikit-learnNumba

Quant

pandasnumpyalgorithmic trading models

Cloud/Infra

VercelRailwayAWSDocker

Tools

GitGitHub ActionsStripe ConnectResend

Writing

Blog and case studies

The blog is preserved as-is. Read the longer notes, project stories, and technical writing at the existing blog route.

Open Blog

Contact

Find Abid online

Use email for serious context. Social links are current as of May 2026.

Emailabid@openpaws.ai
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GitHubgithub.com/LarytheLord
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LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/abikhn
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Instagram@aulterabid
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Portfolioabikhn.vercel.app
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