14 pieces

Journal

Numerical methods, open source, the things I build, and the road here.

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    Amazon ML Challenge 2026: the Number That Mattered Was 1.887

    Linking 10 million noisy business records to 1.7 million reference businesses in 44 hours on one laptop, from 0.940 to 0.988642 across 8,269 teams, and why local validation kept lying to us.

    BuildsMachine Learning / Entity Resolution / LightGBM / Competition
  2. (05)

    How I Got Into Google Summer of Code 2026 with SciML

    From never having written a line of Julia to contributing differential-equation solvers for the SciML organization - here's the path that got me into GSoC.

    Open sourceOpen Source / Julia / GSoC / SciML
  3. (06)

    Building FaceGuard: Offline Face Recognition in React Native

    An offline-first facial recognition and liveness-detection app for Android and iOS - on-device MobileFaceNet inference, blink/smile challenges, and a local SQLite store.

    BuildsReact Native / TensorFlow Lite / On-device ML / TypeScript
  4. (07)

    INT8 Quantization: Shrinking Neural Networks for the Edge

    Why a model that runs on a GPU is useless on a factory floor - and how INT8 quantization let me fit real neural nets onto a Raspberry Pi and a phone.

    BuildsEdge AI / TensorFlow Lite / Quantization / Machine Learning
  5. (08)

    PredictEdge: Predictive Maintenance on a Raspberry Pi

    Building an edge-AI predictive-maintenance prototype for Tata Technologies InnoVent 2026 - estimating remaining useful life from sensor data with an INT8 model on a Raspberry Pi.

    BuildsEdge AI / Python / TensorFlow Lite / Raspberry Pi
  6. (09)

    From Web Dev to Scientific Computing: My Open-Source Journey

    How I went from building React storefronts to contributing numerical solvers in Julia - and why following my curiosity across stacks turned out to be the best career decision.

    JourneyCareer / Open Source / Journey
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    Being a Campus Mantri: Building a Coding Culture

    A year as a GeeksforGeeks Campus Mantri taught me that the hardest part of community building isn't the events - it's getting the first ten people to show up.

    JourneyCommunity / Leadership / GeeksforGeeks
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    Contributing to Meshery: My First Steps in Large-Scale Open Source

    How I started contributing to Meshery - MeshSync, Playwright end-to-end tests, and issue triage - and what a 1,000-contributor cloud-native project taught me about working at scale.

    Open sourceOpen Source / Go / Playwright / Cloud Native
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    Building The Happy Attire: A Premium E-Commerce Storefront

    An ethnic-fashion storefront with a product catalogue, admin dashboard, wishlist, live search, and a persistent cart - built with React and Vite, no backend required.

    BuildsReact / Vite / E-commerce / Frontend