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Below is a list of things I’m working on or have worked on (and the places where I did it)!

Now

RL environments, LLM evals, Building an agent product for fintech startup.

X dot com is where you’ll find the most recent updates of what I’m upto in life.

Last product I worked on was Rube.
Worked on the platform, API and documentation. Rebuilt and re-wrote the entire documentation (twice) while I was there :P
Initially I started with trying to improve tools and tool quality for LLMs. Ran evals (BFCL etc) and optimised the automated pipeline to write better tool schemas.

Wrote a paper with Vishwanath on fine-tuning LLMs for observability and log query languages.
Spoke about it at HasGeek RootConf 2024. Talk here
Also did this while I was brushing up on math during Lossfunk — an AI residency out in Bangalore.

Worked on the repo. I once screwed up the git history while cleaning it lol. Actually contributing to a work-in-progress but well-designed architecture was eye-opening.
Ran evals on fine-tuned models, Made a dataset, that reached HN front page and helped clean some other datasets. First time getting my hands dirty with local llms, fine-tuning, inference, quantization, etc.
got much better at talking to ppl/customers and understanding what to build. social battery +10%!

Built a bookmark search engine in 6 weeks. Got to ~300 ppl in a waitlist, 100 installs, and paying customers! Saw this as an absolute win.
Tried (& failed) to hit ramen profitability. I’ve written more about this part of my life on a Substack

Worked on a research hypothesis trying to test the security of third party domains and the public suffix list which describes the effective top-level domains. Went down the rabbit hole of so many papers, blogs and even old mozilla bug threads!
Made an actual, usable ML pipeline for the first time! Did everything from scraping arbitrary domains from the internet concurrently, establishing the ground-truth, and then classifying it.

Really fun security engineering internship where I ran phishing campaigns by chaining two vulnerabilities and gave an internal talk about it.
Made a service that used heuristics to identify the services used by websites. Made another service to scan for vulnerable Log4j servers. First time where I was thrown in front of a client and demoed a product (they converted too!)
Learnt so much about working in a cohesive team. Could just walk over to ppl and pick up projects for them. Discovered how to be high agency in a startup.

Replicated a vulnerability in Microsoft’s N-RPC with a CVSS of 10. Write Up
Made an IMSI sniffer and saw all the repeating TMSI numbers around me. imsi-catcher! Also gave my first talk in front of people about software defined radio and hacking radio devices that semester. Video
Gave a talk about container runtimes and their internals at a systems and security meetup. Video