I like to build reasoning systems from scratch

Applied ML, distributed training, and product systems work.

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2026, ongoing

Bukra

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Cross-border intercity transport platform for Africa — search and book bus tickets, flights, and parcel shipments from the web or WhatsApp. Live across South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, and Togo. Card, cash, and mobile money. Built the booking flow, design system, multi-channel checkout, and CI/CD pipeline.

2025–2026

Cessabit

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Self-care app that replaces guilt-driven streaks with a momentum score that never fully resets, plus an insight engine that finds real statistical correlations between a user's logged activities and mood — no generic advice. Built the entire product: algorithm, billing, and design. Live with real users.

2026

Nemotron-3 Reasoning Challenge

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LoRA fine-tuning harness for a 30B reasoning model with distributed training across dual RTX PRO 6000s + DGX Spark, programmatic synthetic puzzle generation, and an automated eval pipeline. Kaggle competition, $25K+ prize pool. Finished at 83.6% (top team scored 92%).

Team: Vel, Manisha

Building agents that adapt to novel, human-solvable tasks never seen during training. Hidden interactive environments, multi-step reasoning, and no memorization shortcuts. $850K prize pool. Kaggle competition. Paused — no longer active.

Team: Manisha, Vel

Lightweight evaluation framework for comparing local LLMs via Ollama. Multi-metric scoring (exact match, token F1, LLM-as-judge), latency analysis, and an interactive ECharts dashboard with heatmaps and per-item drill-down.

2023

Harvard Research — Cardiac Tissue Engineering

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3D bioprinting research using fiber-infused ink to print cardiomyocytes, contributing to cardiac tissue engineering applications. Applied statistical methods and data visualization to analyze complex biological data as part of a funded interdisciplinary research project.

2023

AstroEase

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iOS app built in college to help students review astronomy coursework — topic breakdowns covering Solar System, Stars & Constellations, Galaxies, Black Holes, Planetary Motion, Space Exploration, Telescopes, and Celestial Navigation.