my journey so far
shipped products, won hackathons, spoke at events, and the parts in between.
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.
2nd at BlockTrain
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
mumbai airport, heading to bangalore. noticed someone coding on their laptop, sat beside them out of curiosity. turns out, a senior developer serving Apple. we ended up talking for a long time. he shared experiences, lessons from life, stories about building products. didn't just make a connection, made a really good friend.
won $3,000: 2nd at Base Onchain AI (Bangalore)
solo. 16 hours. 0 sleep. laptop literally caught fire mid-demo. shipped hypescan, a meme coin pump/dump predictor using price data + rug checks + social signals. $3,000 prize.
shipped productise: 30+ PMs in month one
launched productise.tech. AI copilot for product managers: customer experience agents, dynamic roadmapping, jira ticket generation. organically onboarded 30+ PMs in the first month without spending on ads.
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!
shipped 13 products, won 3 hackathons, judged 2 more, delivered 2 community talks, started building an AI SaaS, and a sponsored trip to bangalore. the year everything compounded.
joined Cars24, moved to bangalore
applied, cleared 3 rounds, packed bags, moved cities. data science intern working on genai systems at one of india's largest used-car platforms.
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 Saadhna: shipped Ideagen (5,000 users)
shipped ideagen, an AI project idea generator. complete roadmaps, tech stacks, challenges. hit 5,000 users after launch. published in Google Cloud Community on Medium. won $200 in credits.
spoke to GitHub CEO at Constellation Bangalore
attended GitHub Constellation in bangalore. watched thomas dohmke demo copilot's next moves. connected with the bangalore dev community for the first time. stayed 3 extra days to explore.
mentored at HackWave (Data Science)
mentor for data science domain at hackwave, APSIT. brainstormed with 10+ teams, helped debug approaches live. one of 10 mentors, all former hackathon winners.
top 3 India: presented Chalo Kisaan at Build with AI
one of 3 teams from all of india selected to present at google's build with AI roadshow, bangalore. demoed chalo kisaan live. later featured on CNBC-TV18.
first hackathon win: Quantiphi CodeQraft
shipped codecraft, a tool that reduces PM-to-developer miscommunication. won first place. first win out of what would become 10.
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.
