STUDENT · BUILDER · AI & STEM INNOVATOR
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Fifteen. Born in Patna, based in Hyderabad, schooled at Army Public School — building AI tools, a paint that reflects sunlight into space, and a way to talk Morse while gaming. Three-time national quiz champion. It's a lot. I'm aware.
now: ThermaCool patent prep · MorseRelay dev · homelab humming
next: the filing — and the next buzzer round
a real terminal — type help, play quiz, or try sudo if you're feeling bold.
Most people learn to use technology. I got stuck one question earlier — how does it actually work?
That question has dragged me across most of STEM. I run local LLMs through Ollama — Qwen and Gemma on my own silicon — and shipped VibeStudy, a privacy-first AI study companion built for dyslexic, low-vision, ADHD and autistic learners, not just the average one. I'm developing ThermaCool, a radiative cooling paint that rejects sunlight and radiates heat through the atmosphere — a genuine materials project with a patent in preparation. I built MorseRelay so people can talk in Morse code mid-game, I run a homelab (NAS, Pi-hole, the full stack), and I help moderate and engineer bots for a 15,000-member Discord community.
The same instinct pulled me into cybersecurity — Cisco's Ethical Hacker coursework, CTF-style practice, and Linux security labs. Understanding how systems fail is how I learn to build ones that don't. Every security experiment happens on my own systems or authorized lab environments. Ethics isn't a chapter; it's the frame. Ubuntu for living, Kali for lab work.
And when I'm not building, I'm knowing. Three national titles at the BIS Standards Quiz put an official stamp on that half. Building things and knowing things aren't competing hobbies — they're the same curiosity, pointed in two directions. Somewhere between the two, there's also always a pair of drumsticks: I've played percussion on stages from Hyderabad to Dubai, and rhythm, it turns out, is just timing analysis with better taste.
Wins, credentials and presentations — labelled chronologically. A national title is a national title; participation is participation. I keep the distinction sharp, three times over.
BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS · NATIONAL STANDARDS QUIZ
Individual entry, direct national level, online, on science and standards — and I've taken the top spot in three editions: twice in 2025, once in 2026. Outlasting three national-level quizzes, all due to the kripa of my mentors and parents.
Ethical Hacker course completed through Cisco Networking Academy on 12 June 2026 — with a Credly-verified badge to show for it. Acquired online through Netacad.com
Presented ThermaCool to the Governor of Telangana, Shri Jishnu Dev Varma, at the WoW — Wellbeing out of Waste — initiative organized jointly by Mari India and ITC. Explaining passive radiative cooling to the head of a state is a very different pressure than a quiz buzzer. Genuinely great pressure.
Took ThermaCool to CBSE's national-level skill showcase — presenting a materials-science project alongside the country's young builders. Exhibitions are the real test of understanding: if a stranger cares about your mechanism in ninety seconds, you actually understand it.
Regional science exhibition with the radiative cooling paint — the project that keeps coming back to every table. VibeStudy and MorseRelay have made their exhibition appearances too; ThermaCool anchors the science circuit.
Run to the zonals finals at Panthomatics, the quiz hosted by St Kabir International School. Another buzzer, another deep run — the pattern holding.
Participant in the AI Students Community program — spending time with other students who think models and agents are a perfectly normal thing to be excited about.
Two rounds of the AWES quiz circuit — Army Welfare Education Society's interschool battleground. No podium this time; glorious participation, honestly logged.
Member of the BIS Standards Club at school — six years after it was founded in 2018, right around when I started winning the national quiz that bears its name. The club and the titles are related; the club is where the knowing compounds.
the full record lives on my LinkedIn ↗
Two kinds of people win at this game — the ones who build and the ones who know. I decided not to choose.
— OPERATING PRINCIPLE Nº 0Microsphere Cooling Paint — a passive radiative-cooling coating that reduces surface temperatures with zero electricity. Not a "smart city" model on a table. A real materials project, in development since 2025.
ThermaCool is engineered around calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) microspheres — turning ordinary surfaces into passive cooling systems. High solar reflectance rejects incoming sunlight before it becomes heat; the microscale structure scatters light across a broad spectrum, not just visible whiteness; and the coating emits thermal radiation through the 8–13 μm atmospheric window — the band where Earth's atmosphere is transparent — so heat escapes toward space instead of pooling over the roof.
No compressor. No refrigerant. No moving parts. No power draw. Just surface physics doing quiet, elegant work — built on one of the most abundant minerals available, which makes the pathway radically low-cost and scalable: roofs, walls, industrial structures, vehicles. Lower surface temperatures mean lower cooling loads for entire buildings — climate-relevant math, done by a coating.
*early development results under ideal conditions; actual performance depends on weather, substrate and application.
the exact formulation isn't on this website. the patent comes first.
Most AI study tools ship your notes, your questions and — let's be honest — your procrastination to someone else's cloud. VibeStudy flips the model: language models run locally. It pairs with Ollama to run Qwen and Gemma on-device, so a student's documents never leave their machine. Offline-capable. Private by architecture, not by promise.
And it's built for every kind of student. Dyslexic readers get typography that stops fighting them. Low-vision users get scaling, contrast and text-to-speech. ADHD and autistic learners get calm, predictable, low-clutter design. Voice interaction, PDF summarisation, web research — all of it shipped, not slideware.
AI + accessibility + education + software engineering — VibeStudy sits exactly where those four overlap. So do I.
Green plants run the oldest solar technology on Earth. Chlorophyll in the chloroplasts absorbs light and uses that energy to split water and fix carbon dioxide — turning air and sunshine into glucose, with oxygen as the by-product we all depend on. The light reactions make ATP and NADPH; the Calvin cycle spends them building sugar. In short: sunlight → chemistry → food, on a warranty that has lasted about three billion years.
the toggles above actually work — font scaling, dyslexia-friendly typography, high contrast, and real text-to-speech via your browser's speech engine. the privacy counter is real too: it stays at zero forever, by design.
Not a skills bar-graph. A periodic table — chemistry was always going to leak into the UI. Every Z number means something. Click any element for its data sheet.
The other half of my brain. Where computing meets the lab bench — and where "why did it turn that colour?" is a legitimate research question.
the chemistry: heat excites electrons; as they fall back, they emit light at element-specific wavelengths — the colour is the energy gap, made visible.
Reaction mechanisms, flame colours, qualitative analysis, materials work. This is the science that runs ThermaCool — why microspheres scatter light, why CaCO₃ emits where the sky is transparent. Mechanisms over memorization, always. The science I'd defend in an argument at 1 a.m.
Motion, energy, electricity, light — and the electromagnetic spectrum, where ThermaCool lives: reflect the visible and near-IR, emit through the 8–13 μm window. The chapters that explain the electronics I solder and the coating I'm patenting.
Circuits, ESP32 boards, sensors, PC builds. Engineering is physics with deadlines — and building things that physically exist is the whole point of understanding them.
Form a question, design a test, show the result — at school exhibitions, CBSE showcases, and tables where actual humans stand. The scientific method is just debugging for reality, and I run it the same way I run code.
curiosity + discipline → understanding ΔH < 0 (exothermic — the reaction gives back more than it takes)
ThermaCool and VibeStudy are the flagships — this is the rest of the fleet. Status labels are honest: active means it's running on a machine within a metre of me right now.
A desktop app for talking in Morse code while you game. Assign any key, tap dots and dashes without leaving the keyboard, let it run in the background mid-match — and MorseRelay auto-translates in both directions: ··· becomes text, text becomes ···. Built in Python, with a genuinely polished UI (rare for terminal people, I know). Born from percussionist logic: dots and dashes are just another tala.
One personal server, quietly running the full homelabber stack — NAS storage, Pi-hole DNS for the whole network, self-hosted services, and a Linux playground with better uptime than my sleep schedule. No rack. No flex. Just infrastructure that makes the whole house smarter.
Head moderator and bot developer for a 15,000+ member Discord community. My bot handles automation, moderation, utility and fun — a polite way of saying it does the boring work at 3 a.m. so humans don't have to. Running a community that size is applied systems thinking, with extra steps and occasional fireworks.
Learning offense to understand defense: CTF-style exercises, penetration-testing fundamentals, network security and Kali-based lab environments — backed by the Cisco Ethical Hacker credential. Every exercise runs on my own systems or authorized lab environments. Ethical, educational, authorized — no exceptions.
Running and studying language models on my own hardware — Ollama with Qwen and Gemma, prompt engineering, agents, AI-assisted research, and persistently asking "why did it say that?"
Wiring theory to reality: ESP32 boards, sensors, circuits — and the time-honoured engineering tradition of finding out which ground you forgot.
Small, sharp tools: Python CLI apps, scripts, automations and utilities that talk to APIs — including on Android via Termux, because a phone is a computer and I refuse to pretend otherwise.
Before the terminal, there was the tabla.
I've played percussion across interschool and international stages — from Hyderabad to Dubai — and it's not a side quest; it's the other half of the practice. Instruments in rotation:
Here's the thing people miss: rhythm is timing analysis. Cycles, subdivisions, syncopation — patterns all the way down, played with four limbs and zero compilers. It's no accident my MorseRelay app exists: dots and dashes are just another tala. The hands that keep time on a congo are the same hands that key Morse at 2 a.m.
A living page — what I'm actually on right now, updated as life updates.
// end of feed — the next entry writes itself when life does.
Earned, in progress, and next — in that order, without blurring. Three national titles taught me precision; I don't blur categories to look taller.
2025 ×2 · 2026 — individual, national level, science & standards.
Credly-verified course credential, completed 12 June 2026.
WoW initiative, Mari India × ITC — 24 June 2026.
2025 — ThermaCool on the national showcase circuit.
2026, individual — St Kabir International School's quiz.
AI Students Community program 2026 · two AWES quiz tours · club member since 2024.
Materials refinement and the filing itself. The big one.
Hotkey morse comms for gamers, both-direction auto-translate.
Ollama · Qwen · Gemma · prompt engineering.
NAS, Pi-hole, self-hosting — Git/GitHub workflow as muscle memory.
Educational challenges in authorized lab environments, paired with Cisco material.
From "in preparation" to "pending" to "granted." In order.
Moving from running models to understanding and applying them.
The thread running through VibeStudy — pulled further.
Industry-recognized material. The ambition is real, and so is the distance.
Collaborations, competitions, feedback on ThermaCool or VibeStudy, a genuinely good quiz question, or an argument about the best distro — all welcome. I reply fast; blame the buzzer reflexes.