my journey so far
a gallery of moments that mattered. milestones, demos, and the parts in between that don't make it onto a resume.
recent cs grad
wrapped up b.e. computer engineering at a. p. shah institute of technology, university of mumbai. four years of campus, AI Lead at GDG on Campus APSIT, three years of shipping in parallel. on to whatever's next.
shipped osscare
an AI co-maintainer that lives in your git repo. triages issues, filters vulnerability noise, gives maintainers their weekends back. early adopters quietly trying it.
aifam launch
aifam.omi.codes. 50+ AI researcher profiles mapped with timelines, citations, h-index, connections. agents scan the last 3 days of AI news, filter signal, write storytelling articles, send the newsletter. ask "who works on RL at OpenAI?" and get an answer.
AI Engineer Intern @ Zonko AI Frontier Labs
five months of shipping genai across agents, image generation, voice. built an agentic image editor + an AI assistant with memory. learned the stuff you only learn when production breaks at 2am. model routing, prompt design, real deploys.
4th + 2 prizes at ETHIndiaVilla (Devfolio @ Zo House)
52 builders selected from 2,045 applications, ~2.5% acceptance. team vikings: anshuman, akash, gaurang, me. shipped dustfree, an auto-clean wallet that sweeps dust into ETH/WETH/USDC. 4th overall + Project Submission Prize + JesseGPT Prize. sponsors: coinbase, noice.so, starknet, geode, polygon, arbitrum, devfolio.
Gemini 3.0 Build Day @ Google Mumbai
spent the day at google mumbai exploring what's actually new in gemini 3.0. left with a notebook full of ideas and a sharper sense of where multimodal is heading next.
2nd + Speedrun + JesseGPT at BlockTrain (Devfolio)
devfolio's moving-train hackathon. shipped ringbet, a decentralised social gaming app. 2nd in quadratic voting + Speedrun Ethereum challenge winner + JesseGPT Prize. demoed at Interfaces 2025 (IIT Delhi). 21 projects shipped that weekend.
MumbaiHacks 2025 with CheckMate
built checkmate at mumbaihacks 2025 with team grACE (jishan, abhishek, raksha on design, me). real-time text/voice/image verification (~5s), edge SLMs first for privacy, neo4j graph for narrative-spread mapping, weekly "vaccine digest" on rising misinfo. now becoming SaaS, native android + ios + web + chrome extension. waitlist live.
MAFF 2025 @ Royal Opera House
mumbai ai film festival 2025 at royal opera house. behind-the-scenes work on the AI side. yeah, AI is showing up at film festivals now.
Serendipitous Meeting at Airport
While I was at the Mumbai airport heading to Bangalore, I had some time after checking in, so I was just walking around. I noticed someone coding on their laptop and sat beside them out of curiosity. Once they were done, I asked what they were working on — turns out, he was a senior developer serving Apple! We ended up talking for a long time. He shared his experiences, lessons from life, stories about building products, and much more. I didn't just make a new connection — I made a really good friend!
2nd Place at Base Onchain AI Agents Hackathon
Secured second rank with a $3000 prize at the Base Onchain AI Agents hackathon. We built HypeScan, a tool that forecasts memecoin pump/dump patterns based on price data, rug checks, and social engagement metrics.
Launched Productise - SaaS for Product Managers
Successfully launched Productise, a Copilot for Product Managers that automates routine tasks and helps ship better products faster. The platform offers instant assistance, customer experience simulations with AI agents, and comprehensive roadmapping for research and project planning. Organically onboarded 25 Product Managers in the first month!
HSR Hacker House Weekends
Spent weekends at HSR Hacker House, where we followed a focused format: 4 hours of building and researching, followed by 30-minute demos. The tight timeline created a productive environment, and the community provided invaluable feedback and suggestions for improvement.
2024: Best Year Yet!
Wrapped up an incredible year with remarkable achievements: shipped 13 products, won 3 hackathons, judged 2 more, delivered 2 community talks, started building an AI SaaS, and enjoyed a sponsored trip to Bangalore! Grateful for every crazy moment and excited to build more in the coming year.
New Chapter: Cars24 in Bangalore
After manifesting my goal, applying, and successfully navigating three rounds of interviews, I landed a position at Cars24! Packed my bags and moved from Mumbai to Bangalore to start this exciting new chapter in my career.
Mumbai Hacks Winter Edition: Smile CRM
Built a plugin for existing CRMs like Zoho and HubSpot that enables customer segmentation, data enrichment, target lead identification, and personalized marketing specifically tailored for Indian market nuances. We fine-tuned a small model on Indian cultural, historical, and consumer pattern datasets to power these insights.
NVIDIA AI Summit, Mumbai
spent the day at nvidia ai summit mumbai. talks on robotics, foundation models, what india's ai infra needs next. met a lot of mumbai ai folks i'd only known on twitter.
Hacktoberfest 2024 with explainableai
built and launched explainableai, a python package that solves the "black box" problem in ML. supports most algorithms + TensorFlow and Keras integrations. now at 5,000+ developers actively using it, 16,000+ downloads. accepted to GSSoC 2024 + Hacktoberfest 2024 in the same window. co-built with mihir, palak, sairaj.
Won Project Sadhna Hackathon
Secured a win at Project Sadhna hackathon with a $200 credits prize. Developed IdeaGen, a project idea generator that provides complete roadmaps, suggestions, challenges, and recommended tech stacks. The platform prevents duplicate ideas and features an adaptive flow where the AI fine-tunes itself to suggest better ideas. Successfully reached 5,000 users shortly after launch!
GitHub Constellation Bangalore
Attended GitHub Constellation in Bangalore where I saw GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke speak. Connected with numerous people from the vibrant Bangalore tech community and gained valuable insights into GitHub's AI developments and their impact on developers. Extended my stay to explore Bangalore and Mysuru as a tourist for three additional days.
Mentored at HackWave Hackathon
Served as a mentor for the Data Science domain at HackWave, organized at A.P. Shah Institute of Technology. Brainstormed with participants, offered suggestions and tips, and maintained high energy throughout the event alongside nine other mentors, all former hackathon winners themselves.
Presented Chalo Kisaan at Build with AI Roadshow
One of 3 teams from India to present our Solution Challenge project 'Chalo Kisaan' at the Build with AI Roadshow in Bangalore.
Winner of Quantiphi CodeQraft Hackathon
Achieved my first hackathon win at Quantiphi's Code Qraft! Developed 'codecraft', a solution to improve clarity between Product Managers and Developers, addressing issues of redevelopment and increased iterations.
GDSC Solution Challenge
Developed 'Chalo Kisaan', a project empowering farmers to build agritourism services, addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals and providing additional income sources for farmers.
Mumbai Hacks Summer Edition
Joined a team of 4 anonymous members at GDG MAD's Mumbai Hacks. Created a Mental Health GPT to guide users on whether they should consult a therapist, focusing on respectful collaboration.
Hackscript Hackathon
Participated in my first 24-hour hackathon at A. P. Shah Institute of Technology. Our team "Squash" developed a Smart Traffic Management System named Mini-Spies to reduce AQI levels in crowded city areas.
