01Live
A monetised AI companion + expert platform
↗ ahoum.com- 316 LLM personasExpert personas
- 70+ assessment typesAssessment engine
- live Razorpay revenueMonetisation
- 10k concurrent WebSocket eventsScale design
Ahoum is a monetised, persona-driven AI platform built at Neosophical Labs. As technical product manager I steer its suite — Talk-to-Expert (316 LLM personas), SBF and Expert chat — owning roadmap, persona/safety architecture, real-money monetisation and real-time scale across web and native iOS/Android. Building on a live product, not from scratch: taking it from working to shipped-and-growing.
- →Steer the Ahoum product suite — Talk-to-Expert, SBF and Expert chat — from roadmap to release
- →Persona-prompt architecture with locked safety rails across 316 experts
- →Razorpay monetisation end-to-end with HMAC-verified payments and credit passes
- →Designed 100→10k concurrent WebSocket scaling on Aurora Serverless v2 + Fargate
02Co-founder & CTO
AI that explains why a student got the marks
↗ inzighted.com- +45% (H-RAG)Insight accuracy
- 94.2% → 98.0%OCR
- −30%System load
- 10Clients
Founding CTO of ZAi-Fi's InzightED — a hierarchical-RAG NEET evaluator that goes beyond marks to surface the concept gaps behind a student's score. I set the technical and product direction: Neo4j knowledge graph, an LLM-as-evaluator pipeline, and Mistral/Textract OCR intelligence, orchestrated via Django and Celery — and the roadmap and hiring bar around it.
- →Owned technical + product direction as founding CTO — architecture, roadmap and hiring bar
- →Architected a hierarchical-RAG NEET evaluator that goes beyond marks to concept gaps
- →Neo4j concept-gap knowledge graph + LLM-as-evaluator pipeline; OCR accuracy to 98%
- →Still a co-founder; stepped back from day-to-day in late 2025 for the MBA
⚑ Founding idea was the CEO's; the technical architecture and product direction are Bala's.
03Deployed
eCAP + IIM Campus Portals
2026Software that runs an IIM, built from a wheelchair
- 2000+ studentsReach
- electives + election + sports portalsSystems
- ecap.iimbg.ac.inDeployed
Lead developer on the IT Committee at IIM Bangalore, building and deploying the eCAP elective Course Allocation Portal and a suite of campus systems — encrypted elections, sports portals, and admin dashboards — serving the full student body.
- →eCAP elective Course Allocation Portal deployed at ecap.iimbg.ac.in
- →SSO + RBAC encrypted election system
- →Sports + admin portals with live stats and audit tracking
04Open source
GlassBench
2026Benchmarking when models should say "I don't know"
- 96 real multi-sessionConversations
- 4 (answerable/stale/contradiction/false-premise)Splits
- Confidently-Wrong RateSignal
- Open sourceLicense
An open, frozen-design benchmark for LLM memory systems that measures calibration, not just accuracy. Where other benchmarks ask "did it retrieve the right fact?", GlassBench asks "when it is wrong, does it admit it?" — introducing the Confidently-Wrong Rate and a composite Glass Score across answerable, stale, contradiction and false-premise splits drawn from real multi-session conversations.
- →Frozen pre-registration committed before any system is scored
- →Confidently-Wrong Rate isolates the failures that hurt in production
- →Four task splits across 96 real multi-session conversations
- →Deterministic open scorer that defeats degenerate strategies
05In development
SupplyLens
2026Logistics intelligence cockpit
- 4 (fleet · warehouse · freight · disruption)Live data domains
- cost-gated Gemini, structured outputAI gateway
- Redis pub/sub + SSERealtime
An AI-powered platform that folds real-time fleet tracking, warehouse ops, freight-market intelligence and disruption detection into a single situational-awareness cockpit. A modular Django core streams live data through Redis pub/sub and SSE into a React frontend, with a Gemini-backed AI gateway synthesising narratives and alerts under strict budget controls.
- →Module-agnostic real-time pipeline over Redis pub/sub + Django Channels SSE
- →Pluggable app modules wired through a central bus — no cross-module imports
- →Cost-aware AI gateway with structured Gemini output and budget gating
- →Multi-tenant isolation and HMAC-signed webhooks from day one
06Working build
SlideAlchemy
2026Raw resources to finished decks
- 6 (PDF/DOCX/slides/img/YouTube/web)Ingest formats
- 12 questionsInterview
- 7 sections, self-improvingPrompt engine
A desktop app that ingests PDFs, DOCX, slides, images, YouTube transcripts and web pages, then generates polished presentation decks through Google NotebookLM. A twelve-question interview refines audience and visual style; a seven-section prompt engine drives generation; and a feedback loop banks high-rated prompt fragments so future decks get sharper over time.
- →Multi-format ingestion with automatic research gap-filling
- →Interactive 12-question interview with learned defaults
- →Seven-section prompt engine with visual directives and quality rules
- →Reinforcement loop seeds a success-pattern DB from rated decks
07Shipping
ExerciseChecker
2026On-device form coach, gamified
- 100% offline, 0 network permsOn-device
- 5 with form state machinesExercises
- ML Kit pose, real-time rep countingEngine
A fully offline Android app that reads your exercise form in real time using on-device ML Kit pose detection — no internet permission, no cloud uploads. Per-exercise state machines count reps and flag form across squats, push-ups, lunges, planks and jumping jacks, all wrapped in a Solo-Leveling-style "System" of XP ranks, daily quests and achievements.
- →On-device pose detection with zero network permission
- →Debounced form rules + rep-counting state machines per exercise
- →XP ranks (E→S), quests, achievements and a muscle-balance radar
- →Schema-versioned JSON/CSV backups with no storage permission
08Working build
Insta Reels → Obsidian
2025Reels into a searchable second brain
- fully local vector storePipeline
- provider-swappable, graceful degradeRAG
- searchable Obsidian vaultOutput
A FastAPI service that captures Instagram reels shared to a burner account and turns them into a searchable Obsidian vault. It fetches metadata, auto-tags with an LLM, optionally transcribes audio, and embeds everything into a local vector store — then answers natural-language questions across your entire reel library. Every stage is provider-swappable and degrades gracefully when a model is offline.
- →Hands-off reel ingestion via private-API polling
- →Composable RAG: transcription, vision, embedding all provider-swappable
- →LLM auto-tagging into Obsidian markdown with YAML frontmatter
- →Graceful degradation and automatic retry for failed fetches
⚑ Uses a burner account; Instagram ToS risk is acknowledged in the project.
09Phase 1 — QA
ShutterDock
2026Your phone as a camera FTP dock
- Wi-Fi/USB-C/hotspot live tetherTransport
- 3 (Drive/Dropbox/Lightroom)Upload targets
- embedded Apache MINA FTPServer
An Android app that turns your phone into an FTP server for a Canon EOS R6 (or any FTP-capable camera). Shoot over Wi-Fi, USB-C or a hotspot and watch frames land live in a gallery grid. Swipe to star, reject or skip, then auto-upload keepers to Google Drive, Dropbox or Lightroom — all driven by an embedded Apache MINA server and a WorkManager upload queue.
- →Embedded MINA FTP server in a session-aware foreground service
- →Live gallery grid with swipe review (star / reject / skip)
- →Multi-cloud auto-upload: Drive, Dropbox, Lightroom
- →Wi-Fi, LocalOnlyHotspot and USB-RNDIS network detection
10Backend intern
MeetMyMentor
2024Backend that carried 90k+ monthly interactions
- 90,000+Monthly interactions
- −35%Fetch latency
- +50%UX efficiency
Backend Developer Intern at MeetMyMentor — a mentorship platform serving tens of thousands of monthly interactions. Built scalable REST APIs, optimised MongoDB schemas for lower latency, and integrated a React dashboard that measurably improved UX efficiency.
- →Built scalable REST APIs serving 90k+ monthly interactions
- →Optimised MongoDB schemas for −35% fetch latency
- →Integrated a React dashboard for +50% UX efficiency
11Published
Edge CV that protects crops, humanely
↗ Paper (DOI)- 92.4% @ 60 FPSmAP
- 1500+ imagesTraining set
- EAI IoT JournalPublished
A computer vision capstone deploying YOLOv5 to a Jetson Nano via ONNX for real-time rhesus macaque detection at 60 FPS, paired with ultrasonic deterrence validated above 90% — a humane, low-cost crop-protection system published in the EAI IoT Journal.
- →YOLOv5 detector deployed to Jetson Nano via ONNX at 60 FPS
- →Ultrasonic deterrence validated >90%
- →Published in EAI IoT Journal (DOI 10.4108/eetiot.4809)