Systems engineer working at the intersection of AI inference infrastructure and safety-critical embedded systems.
Currently a pre-final year EE undergrad at MIT Manipal - published in Springer Nature Q1 (2026), IEEE VTC (2026), and 3 provisional patents through MAHE/DGIP.
Building multilingual voice AI @ Fettle · solar racing EV firmware @ SolarMobil · agentic B2B SaaS @ Guaq AI
All PRs below are currently in review - code-owner responses pending.
| Repo | PR | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| vllm-project/vllm | #44794 | FlowPrefill: checkpoint-based sub-chunk preemption for the v1 scheduler — CUDA event polling detects decode pressure and suspends prefill mid-chunk without synchronize(), using a pre-allocated event pool to eliminate per-step overhead |
| sgl-project/sglang | #27498 | P-EAGLE: parallel speculative decoding for SGLang — generates all K draft tokens in a single forward pass instead of K sequential passes, porting the technique from vLLM v0.16.0 and closing #23171. +37K lines, 14 review comments |
| microsoft/vidur | #80 | MoE + disaggregated scheduler: DeepSeek-V3 and Mixtral-8x7B MoE configs with BaseMoEModelConfig, plus a disaggregated prefill/decode scheduler for Microsoft Research's LLM inference simulator |
| anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python | #1663 | Streaming perf: skip build_events() and use O(1) buffers on the get_final_message drain path — eliminates unnecessary TextEvent/InputJsonEvent construction when caller doesn't iterate events, fixing #1649 |
| jpmorganchase/QOKit | #139 | Lazy Ising kernel: on-the-fly Ising energy computation inside the CUDA phase-separation kernel, eliminating the O(2ⁿ) precomputed diagonal array and its CPU→GPU transfer, fixing #35 |
| finos/pylegend | #311 | Type system: adds Time, Variant, and Binary primitive types through the full type chain (enum → class hierarchy → expression layer) in FINOS/JPMorgan's Python Legend query library, closing #220 |
| 📄 | Springer Nature Q1 — Technical Validation of a Multimodal Emotion-Adaptive Biofeedback System for Autonomic Regulation · Scientific Reports, Apr 2026 |
| 📄 | IEEE VTC 2026 — Physics-Informed Stochastic Receding Horizon Control for Autonomous Energy Management in Solar Racing · Accepted Apr 2026 |
| 🔒 | 3 provisional patents via MAHE/DGIP — adaptive EV interface (202541050036), long-range EV telemetry (202541064383), robotic solar panel cleaning (202541079610) |
AI/Inference vLLM · SGLang · PyTorch · TorchRec · LangGraph · LangChain · Gemini ADK
Voice/RT LiveKit · SIP/PSTN · WebSockets · Whisper · multilingual STT/TTS
Backend FastAPI · Django · Spring Boot · Redis · Kafka · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse
Platform Lago · Clerk · PostHog · Cloudflare Zero Trust · Prometheus · Grafana
Embedded STM32H7 · FreeRTOS · TouchGFX · CAN · MISRA C/C++ · Verilog · TensorRT
Cloud AWS (ECS, Fargate, Lambda) · GCP (Cloud Run, Vertex AI) · Kubernetes
- AI inference serving — speculative decoding, scheduler preemption, MoE simulation
- Voice AI infrastructure — multilingual hospital workflow agents, SIP orchestration, inference pooling
- Safety-critical firmware — Cortex-M7 ECU, FreeRTOS, CAN bus, race strategy digital twin
- Agentic platform primitives — multi-tenant auth, metering, tool integration, observability
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