[SYS_CORE:SAHIL]
// 0x01 · MANIFESTO IIT_KANPUR · '24 CURRENT · BOLTO (YC_S23) EX · SPINE_AI (YC_S23)

Sahil Singh Architecting AI products. From 0 to 1 — and to scale.

Software engineer who ships. Agent orchestration, LLM routing across 400+ models, real-time consumer backends, multi-cloud DevOps. Currently engineering at Bolto (YC S23). Previously architected the Swarm engine at Spine AI (YC S23) and was a founding member at Sigiq.ai (10M seed funding). On the side I'm building JEEnius AI.

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BOLTO · YC_S23 · CURRENT/ SPINE_AI · YC_S23/ SIGIQ.AI · FOUNDING_MEMBER/ IIT_KANPUR · B.TECH '24/ GOOGLE · AI4SG_GRANT · $30K/ GDSC · FOUNDER · 1000+ MEMBERS/ INTER_IIT · BRONZE/ GIVA · POS_INTERN_PPO/ GOOGLE · CODEJAM · GLOBAL_RANK_794/ BOLTO · YC_S23 · CURRENT/ SPINE_AI · YC_S23/ SIGIQ.AI · FOUNDING_MEMBER/ IIT_KANPUR · B.TECH '24/ GOOGLE · AI4SG_GRANT · $30K/ GDSC · FOUNDER · 1000+ MEMBERS/ INTER_IIT · BRONZE/ GIVA · POS_INTERN_PPO/ GOOGLE · CODEJAM · GLOBAL_RANK_794/
// 0x02 · IMPACT_LOG

Numbers, not narratives.

Every figure below is from a live, production-shipped system that I owned end-to-end. No vanity metrics — these are users that paid, agents that executed, and exams that got predicted.

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USERS SPINE + PADHAI + EVERTUTOR + JEENIUS
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USERS_REACHED across products I built or co-built
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SPINE_SWARM CONCURRENT
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AGENTS orchestrated in parallel · 1–10 specialized agents per task
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MODEL_ROUTER PER_STEP
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LLMs routed dynamically · 106k+ intelligence nodes processed
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PAYINGACROSS_PRODUCTS
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paying customers across Spine, JEEnius, EverTutor, Padhai
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CANVASREAL-TIME
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collaborative canvas envs powered by APIs I shipped
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WEBSOCKETSCONCURRENCY
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concurrent connections on Sigiq's WS microservice
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JEENIUSJEE_2026 · JAN
0%
topic-coverage accuracy · 63 near-exact matches · ground-truth verified
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Products I shipped.

Click any card for the full architecture deep-dive — what I owned, what I built, what's running in production. External link icons take you to the live product.

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PROD · YC_S23 SPINE AI · 2025–26

Spine Swarm /// 400+ LLMs orchestrated as parallel agents · #1 on DeepSearchQA

Spine is an AI research platform that orchestrates 400+ models as parallel agents to produce client-ready research, decks, and Excel models. I architected the backend orchestration engine — 500+ concurrent agents, 1–10 specialized agents per task, parallel non-sequential execution. Built the model router, the canvas APIs (6,400+ envs), and the React-based visual canvas. 0→1 to 10k+ users · 151 paying.

REACTNODEPYTHONAWSGCPAZUREBLUE_GREEN
500+
CONCURRENT_AGENTS
400+
LLMS_ROUTED
6.4k+
CANVAS_ENVS
151
PAYING
getspine.ai → [CLICK_TO_OPEN_DEEP_DIVE] →
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PROD · UPSC SIGIQ.AI · 2024

Padhai.ai /// UPSC AI tutor · 175k+ active students

UPSC prep companion with 175,000+ students, 25M tutor interactions, 10M AI summaries. I owned the AI webserver refactor, built the 10k-concurrent WebSocket microservice, Redis leaderboard, and architected blue–green deploys + Datadog APM across the stack.

DJANGOREDISWEBSOCKETSDOCKERDATADOG
padhai.ai → [OPEN_DEEP_DIVE]
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PROD · K-12 + GRE SIGIQ.AI · 2024

EverTutor.ai /// voice-first AI tutoring · backend & infra owned

AI-powered tutoring across K-12 intervention and GRE prep — voice-first, 50+ languages, FERPA/COPPA compliant. I built the entire backend & DevOps backbone: Stripe gateway for international + domestic payments, AI webserver, the markdown-LaTeX renderer in React Native that ships AI tutor output to learners.

STRIPEREACT_NATIVEDJANGOCELERYFCM
evertutor.ai → [OPEN_DEEP_DIVE]
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SOLO · FOUNDER JEENIUS_AI · 2024–PRESENT

JEEnius AI /// JEE prediction engine · 10k+ users · 4.2★ · solo-built

A side project that became a real product. RAG over 20+ years of PYQs + syllabus, multi-model reasoning across GPT-4o / o-series / Gemini 2.5 Pro / Fathom — dynamically routed per query type. Predicted 83% of JEE Main 2026 January topics with 63 near-exact matches, ground-truth validated post-exam. 10k+ users, 4.2★, paying subscribers, zero paid acquisition.

10k+
USERS · ORGANIC
4.2★
PLAY_STORE
83%
PREDICTION
100k+
QS_INDEXED
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Execution trace.

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[CURRENT_PROCESS · ACTIVE]

Software Engineer · Bolto (YC S23)

MAY 2026 — PRESENT · NEW YORK / REMOTE

Bolto is the AI-powered hiring + HR stack for engineering teams — sourcing, AI vetting, scheduling, payroll, benefits, and compliance in one place. Joined as engineer #N to push on the AI-driven sourcing and assessment infra.

  • Building AI-driven engineer sourcing & vetting pipelines that ingest signal from public code, scoring trajectories, and matching candidates to companies at scale.
  • Owning slices of the platform that touch sourcing, technical assessment, scheduling, and the recruiter experience — full-stack.
  • Bringing the agent-orchestration + LLM-routing playbook from Spine into recruiting workflows.
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[ARCHIVED_PROCESS]

SDE · Spine AI (YC S23)

AUG 2025 — APR 2026 · REMOTE

Spine ships an AI research platform that produced #1-ranked deep-research outputs on Google DeepMind's DeepSearchQA benchmark. I owned the orchestration engine, model router, and large parts of the canvas runtime that made it possible.

  • Architected the backend orchestration engine for Spine Swarm — 1–10 specialized agents per task, 500+ concurrent, parallel non-sequential execution at production scale.
  • Built the intelligent model router — 400+ LLMs selected dynamically per execution step, optimising for quality, latency, and cost. Cumulatively processed 106k+ intelligence nodes.
  • Powered 6,400+ active canvas environments — collaborative agent execution, artifact persistence, branching, full inspectability of every agent run.
  • Designed and shipped APIs that produce client-ready outputs (decks, PDFs, Excel models with formulas) — not chat transcripts.
  • Built the React canvas frontend, scheduled-workflow system, and integrations across MCP, webhooks, and external APIs.
  • Owned multi-cloud DevOps (AWS / GCP / Azure) with zero-downtime blue–green deploys; took Spine 0→1 to 10k+ users · 151 paying · 2.5% conversion.
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[FOUNDING_MEMBER]

SDE · Sigiq.AI

JUN 2024 — JUL 2025 · GURGAON

Founding-member SDE for the company behind Padhai.ai (UPSC, 175k+ users), EverTutor (K-12 + GRE), and a portfolio of AI tutoring products. Owned backend, infra, and reliability across the entire stack.

  • Owned the AI webserver behind Padhai.ai — comprehensive refactor, error handling overhaul, drastic stability gains during peak exam-season concurrent load.
  • Owned the backend & infra of EverTutor end-to-end — integrated Stripe to securely process international + domestic payments and unlock the entire revenue path.
  • Led migration from PM2-managed processes to a fully containerized ecosystem; designed blue–green deploys with Docker + PM2 supervisors for zero-downtime production updates.
  • Built a 10,000-concurrent WebSocket microservice for real-time AI interactions, alongside a CPU-intensive recordkeeping microservice — separated hot paths from heavy paths to keep latency low.
  • Architected Datadog APM + centralized logging across AI webservers and backends — proactive issue detection, faster outage response, full request traces.
  • Shipped a Redis-powered leaderboard with logarithmic-time access, enabling real-time rank surfacing without hammering the DB.
  • Built a markdown + LaTeX rich-text renderer in React Native — the runtime that displays every AI tutor response across products, including math/STEM-heavy content.
  • Architected, deployed, and managed containerized microservices across AWS / GCP / Azure — streamlined CI/CD, optimised cost, ensured high availability.
  • Led + mentored a team of interns; delegated quick-fix tracks to keep production velocity high.
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[PPO_OFFERED]

SDE Intern · Sigiq.AI

OCT 2023 — MAY 2024 · REMOTE
  • Shipped React Native + Redux app features and Django APIs/websockets for AI chat + integrations — boosting app responsiveness and reliability.
  • Built a Redis cache leaderboard for in-memory logarithmic-time access; designed it to scale horizontally without warm-up cost.
  • Built a custom notification panel using Django + Firebase Cloud Messaging — bulk send, CSV upload, internal-tester segmentation, analytics, Celery-driven delivery.
  • End-to-end deeplink-driven sharing pipeline: dynamic image generation, S3 storage, Firebase deeplinks for previews — turned passive content into a growth surface.
  • Implemented compliant user-deletion that purges DB + cache; built hierarchical chat-graph viz with D3.js for AI conversation inspection.
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[PPO_OFFERED]

SDE Intern · GIVA Indiejewels

MAY 2023 — JUL 2023 · BANGALORE
  • Mission-critical POS flows in Next.js + Node, used heavily in production post-deploy across stores.
  • Shopify order sync via APIs/webhooks; Razorpay payments; SearchTap data + automated reindexing.
  • Discovered an indefinite OTP verification flaw in the GIVA mobile app and shipped a timeout-invalidation fix that hardened the auth flow.
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[CYBERSEC]

Cybersecurity Intern · Vaticinari + VAPT Fellow · C3iHub IITK

APR 2023 — SEP 2023
  • Built an Incident Response GUI tool from scratch leveraging Volatility, Log2Timeline, RegRipper for forensic timelines and memory analysis.
  • Used MITRE ATT&CK CASCADE to map adversary tactics; built an ETL log parser for Windows pktmon/tracerpt → CSV pipelines.
  • Reverse-engineered WannaCry on Remnux, identified the kill-switch mechanism, built a malware lab to study live ransomware behaviour.
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[FULLSTACK]

Full Stack Dev Intern · Basta Neural Technologies

JAN 2023 — APR 2023 · REMOTE

Maintained the org's website (frontend + backend), integrated Razorpay for payment processing in Node, shipped REST APIs and front-end improvements end-to-end.

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[NATIONAL_SCALE]

Tech Intern · Centre for Teacher Accreditation, India

JUN 2021 — AUG 2021 · REMOTE

Built a scoring + self-assessment web tool used by 400,000+ teachers across India. Pandas + NumPy scoring algorithm, Flask micro-framework, HTML/CSS frontend, oauth2/gspread for Sheets integration.

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Side quests & signal.

Funded research, awards, full-stack experiments, security work, game dev, published apps. Every card links to source.

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GOOGLE · AI4SG · $30K 2022 · TEAM_LEAD

AI Labor-Room Smart Assistant

ASR-driven labor-room assistant for nurses in low-resource Bihar — timely data documentation + delivery-complication detection. Funded with $30,000 from Google AI for Social Good (top picks from 1000+ global applications). Led a Flutter + Flask + ASR stack with a custom KV-pair extraction algorithm on transcribed text.

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INTER_IIT · BRONZE 2022 · ISRO

Solar Burst Identifier (ISRO)

Web tool for ISRO to identify solar bursts in X-Ray light curves at Inter IIT Tech Meet 10.0 (IIT KGP). ReactJS + ChartJS frontend, Flask REST APIs to a Python detection backend, downloadable CSV reports. Bronze medal.

[PRIVATE_REPO · DEMO_ON_REQUEST]
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GDSC · IITK 2023–24 · FOUNDER

Founded GDSC at IIT Kanpur

Founded and led the Google Developer Student Club at IITK. 1,000+ members, 9-member core, 50 volunteers. Ran ideathons (228 teams), GenAI workshops (300 attendees), Google Cloud Jam (150 participants), Winter Projects (416 of 687 applicants). 5,000+ event participants over the year.

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GOOGLE · SOLUTIONS_CHALLENGE 2024 · MANAGER

FeedHarmony

GDSC IITK's Google Solutions Challenge entry for global hunger — Flutter mobile app + predictive ML algorithm. Managed Product, Dev, and ML teams to a working prototype in a 3-week deadline; contributed app components and integration plumbing.

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CTA · NATIONAL_SCALE 2021

CTA Self-Assessment Tool

Scoring + self-assessment web tool used by 400,000+ teachers across India. Pandas + NumPy scoring algorithm, Flask backend.

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SPEC · IITK 2021–22

IITK Sports Booking Portal

Online sports facility booking for IIT Kanpur post-COVID, scaled for 3,000+ campus residents. Flutter + Firebase Auth + Cloud Firestore.

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CLI · DX_TOOLING SIDE_PROJECT

Comet

AI-driven commit-message CLI in Python. OpenAI for context-rich messages, TextBlob NLP fallback when no API key, optional Jira ticket linking. Interactive setup.

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C3iHUB · VAPT 2023 · FELLOW

WannaCry RE + Custom Ransomware

Reverse-engineered WannaCry with Remnux; identified the kill-switch mechanism. Wrote a basic Python ransomware to study lifecycle internals. Built a Windows + Ubuntu malware lab.

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COLUMBIA_RESEARCH 2021–22

US States Debt Structures

Database build for Prof. Oliver Giesecke (Columbia) — extracted maturity-structure data from US-state Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports. Pandas/NumPy + AWS pipeline.

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ML · IME672 2022 · COURSE

Loan Default Classification

Predictive ML pipeline on a ~200k-row loan training set — Random Forest, AdaBoost, Logistic Regression, ANN benchmarked side-by-side with full EDA.

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GnS · IITK · SECRETARY 2021

Fit India 2.0 Leaderboard

Leaderboard portal for IITK's Fit India 2.0 campaign — built as Web Secretary of the Games and Sports Council, used live during the campaign window.

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PLAY_STORE · PUBLISHED 2021

Noted — Note-Making App

Cross-platform note app on Google Play. Flutter UI, Node backend, MongoDB store, Firebase auth. Bookmark, categorise, edit, delete.

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GAMEDEV · UNITY · C# 2021

The Lost Prince

Unity 2D game with the IITK Gamedev Society. C# scripts for enemy AI, character movement, scene transitions, health systems.

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GAMEDEV · UNITY · 3D SIDE

Haunted 3D

Unity 3D horror experiment — C# scripting + ShaderLab work. A toy project to learn shader pipelines and 3D physics.

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PLAY_STORE · PUBLISHED SHIPPED

TicTacToe

Cross-platform TicTacToe published on Google Play. Pass-and-play with clean state management.

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PLAY_STORE · PUBLISHED SHIPPED

Number Magic

Number-trick game on Google Play — quick, mobile-first, kid-friendly.

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// AWARD
Google Codejam 2021
Global rank 794 out of 37,000+
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// AWARD
Google Kickstart 2021
Best rank 1,544 · 19,000+ globally
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// PUBLISHED
3 apps on Play Store
Noted · TicTacToe · Number Magic
// 0x06 · WRITING

Notes from the field.

Occasional writing on systems quirks, model behaviour, and learning curves. Long-form on Medium.

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SYSTEMS · TCP 2026 · MEDIUM

Mac Time Bomb T-49

A kernel quirk in macOS where TCP stops working after exactly 49 days of uptime. A 32-bit overflow in the tcp_now counter freezes TIME_WAIT expiry, ephemeral ports run out, and new connections die. A small bug with a very specific clock.

macOSTCPKERNELDEBUGGING
READ_ON_MEDIUM →
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AI · LLMS OCT 2025 · MEDIUM

Why "scolding" your LLM is probably a good thing

Models trained for user approval drift into sycophancy — mirroring beliefs instead of pursuing accuracy. Respectful, corrective pressure plus structured reasoning and source-grounding measurably improves reasoning quality. The argument and the evidence.

LLMPROMPTINGEVALSSYCOPHANCY
READ_ON_MEDIUM →
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LEARNING · MOBILE APR 2021 · MEDIUM

How to start learning a new skill — Mobile App Development

How I started Android dev during COVID. Practical advice on starting well: lean on online resources, build confidence through reps, and use community over trying to understand everything before you ship anything.

ANDROIDLEARNINGBEGINNERS
READ_ON_MEDIUM →
// 0x07 · ARSENAL

Stack & superpowers.

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/// LANGUAGES
  • PythonEXPERT
  • TypeScriptEXPERT
  • JavaScriptEXPERT
  • C++ / CPROFICIENT
  • DartPROFICIENT
  • JavaFAMILIAR
  • C#UNITY
  • SQLDAILY
  • Bash / ShellDAILY
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/// AI / LLM SYSTEMS
  • Agent OrchestrationSHIPPED
  • LLM Routing400+_MODELS
  • RAG / Vector DBSHIPPED
  • Prompt EngineeringPROD
  • OpenAI / Anthropic SDKDAILY
  • Gemini / FathomSHIPPED
  • ASR / SpeechAI4SG
  • Eval / BenchmarksDEEPSEARCHQA
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/// BACKEND
  • Django / DRFPROD
  • FastAPI / FlaskPROD
  • Node.js / ExpressPROD
  • WebSockets10k_CONC
  • Celery / QueuesPROD
  • REST + GraphQLPROD
  • MicroservicesSHIPPED
  • MCP / WebhooksSHIPPED
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/// FRONTEND
  • ReactEXPERT
  • Next.jsPROD
  • React NativePROD
  • FlutterPROD
  • TailwindDAILY
  • Redux / ZustandPROD
  • D3.jsSHIPPED
  • ChartJSSHIPPED
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/// INFRA / DEVOPS
  • AWSEC2/S3/RDS
  • GCPPROD
  • AzurePROD
  • DockerDAILY
  • Nginx / PM2PROD
  • Blue–Green DeploysZERO_DOWN
  • CI/CDDAILY
  • LinuxDAILY
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/// DATA / STORAGE
  • PostgresPROD
  • MongoDBPROD
  • RedisCACHE+LB
  • Firebase / FirestorePROD
  • S3 / Object StorageDAILY
  • Pandas / NumPyEXPERT
  • Matplotlib / SeabornPROD
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/// OBSERVABILITY + PAYMENTS
  • Datadog APMARCHITECT
  • Centralized LoggingPROD
  • SentryPROD
  • StripeINTL+DOM
  • RazorpaySHIPPED
  • FCM / PushPROD
  • MoEngageSHIPPED
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/// SECURITY + GAME + MISC
  • OWASP / AuthPROD
  • OAuth / SSOPROD
  • Reverse EngineeringVAPT
  • MITRE ATT&CKCASCADE
  • Volatility / Log2TFORENSICS
  • Unity 2D/3D · C#SHIPPED
  • ShaderLab / HLSLFAMILIAR
  • Git / GitHub ActionsDAILY
/// DOMAINS_TOUCHED
AI · AGENTS LLM_ROUTING RAG_SYSTEMS REAL_TIME CONSUMER_PRODUCTS ED_TECH RECRUIT_TECH FINTECH · PAYMENTS E_COMMERCE · POS DEVTOOLS · CLI CYBERSECURITY · VAPT MALWARE_RE DATA_ANALYTICS ML_CLASSIFIERS SPEECH · ASR MOBILE · ANDROID + iOS GAME_DEV · UNITY DEVOPS · MULTI_CLOUD OBSERVABILITY
// 0x08 · INITIATE_COLLAB

Let's ship something.

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[OPEN_FOR_COLLABS · ADVISORY · BUILDS]

Building AI products at Bolto. Always up for a good problem.

If you're working on agent platforms, applied AI, real-time consumer products, or hard infra problems and want to compare notes — reach out. Allergic to architecture astronautics; biased toward shipping.