STUDENT · BUILDER · EMERGING TECHNOLOGIST
I build things, and I know things.
Class 10 student at Army Public School, Hyderabad — exploring AI, cybersecurity, computing and the sciences by building them, testing them, and (carefully) breaking them.
now: building VibeStudy · running local LLMs · wiring ESP32s
next: 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 half of STEM: language models predicting the next token, a Linux box routing packets, a GPU pushing frames, a reaction quietly rearranging electrons. I want the mechanism, not the manual — which is why I run local LLMs through Ollama on my own machines, self-host services, build and upgrade PCs, write terminal tools, wire up electronics and ESP32 boards, and keep coming back to chemistry, where "why did it turn that colour?" is an entire field of study.
I learn by building. A topic only becomes mine after it has survived contact with my own hands — built, tested, occasionally fried, then understood. The same instinct pulled me into cybersecurity: understanding how systems fail is how I learn to build ones that don't. Every security experiment I run happens in lab environments, on my own systems, or with explicit authorization — ethics isn't a module in the course, it's the whole frame.
And when I'm not building, I'm knowing — quizzing is the other half of my brain. Winning the BIS National Quiz at the national level put an official stamp on that half. Building things and knowing things aren't competing hobbies; they're the same curiosity, pointing in two directions.
Wins, credentials and presentations — labeled honestly. A national title is a national title; coursework is coursework. I keep the distinction sharp.
BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS
First place in the Bureau of Indian Standards' national-level quiz — a nationwide competition run by India's national standards body. Outlasting a national field demands the same thing my projects do: breadth, precision, and nerves that hold.
Selected to present a project under the WoW initiative, associated with Mari India, before the Governor of Telangana. Explaining a STEM idea to the head of a state is a very different pressure than a quiz buzzer — and a genuinely great kind.
Completed Cisco's cybersecurity learning track — security fundamentals, network defense basics and safe practices — earning the associated coursework badge. Stated plainly, because precision matters: this is learning-platform coursework, not a professional certification. Industry-recognized security material (CEH-level knowledge) is on the roadmap — this was the honest first stretch of road.
Built and presented projects at school science exhibitions and STEM competitions — chemistry and physics demonstrations alongside technology builds. An exhibition is the real test of understanding: if you can make a stranger care about a mechanism in ninety seconds, you actually understand it.
Ongoing personal development across AI (VibeStudy, local LLM experiments with Ollama running Qwen and Gemma), Linux systems and self-hosting, embedded experiments, and terminal tooling. Nobody assigned this work. This is what I do with my own time — which is the point.
Two kinds of people win at this game — the ones who build and the ones who know. I've decided not to choose.
— OPERATING PRINCIPLE Nº 0Most 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. I experiment with Ollama serving 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. Most AI tools forget these people entirely — I started with them.
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 will stay 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 experimentation. I want to know why the change happens, not just that it does — mechanisms over memorization, always. This is the science I'd defend in an argument at 1 a.m.
Motion, energy, electricity, light — the operating system everything else runs on. Especially the chapters that explain the electronics I actually solder and the devices I actually build.
Circuits, ESP32 boards, sensors, PC builds. Engineering is physics with deadlines — and building things that physically exist is the whole point of understanding them.
Practical experiments and science-exhibition projects: form a question, design a test, show the result. 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)
VibeStudy is the flagship — 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.
P-00 · VibeStudy — privacy-first AI study & accessibility companion see the flagship ↑Running and studying language models on my own hardware — Ollama with Qwen and Gemma, prompt engineering, AI agents, AI-assisted research, and persistently asking "why did it say that?" Building AI applications from the weights up.
One Linux box, many jobs — self-hosted services, file serving, local servers, and a working lab for networking experiments. Uptime: aspirational.
Learning offense to understand defense: CTF-style exercises, penetration-testing fundamentals, network security and Linux security environments — paired with Cisco coursework. Every exercise runs on my own systems or authorized lab environments. Ethical, educational, always.
Wiring theory to reality: ESP32 boards, sensors, circuits — and the time-honoured engineering tradition of finding out which ground you forgot. Electronics is where physics, hardware and code shake hands.
Exhibition projects that show a mechanism, not a poster — chemistry and physics demonstrations built for school science exhibitions and STEM competitions, and presented to actual humans standing in front of the table.
Small, sharp tools: Python CLI apps, scripts, automations and little utilities that talk to APIs — including on Android via Termux, because a phone is a computer and I refuse to pretend otherwise.
Earned, in progress, and next — in that order, without blurring. Quizzing taught me precision; I don't blur categories to look taller.
Bureau of Indian Standards. A national-level quiz title.
Security fundamentals via Cisco's cybersecurity learning track — honestly labeled as coursework, not a professional certification.
Project presented to the Governor of Telangana, associated with Mari India.
School-level exhibitions and competitions with built-and-presented projects.
Ollama · Qwen · Gemma · prompt engineering · AI-assisted research.
Administration, services, home lab — plus Git/GitHub workflow as muscle memory.
From scripts to applications; HTML/CSS/JS built the site you're reading.
Educational challenges in authorized environments, paired with Cisco material.
Working toward industry-recognized material — the ambition is real, and so is the distance.
Moving from running models to understanding and applying them.
Deeper into assistive technology — the thread running through VibeStudy.
Collaborations, competitions, feedback on VibeStudy, a genuinely good quiz question, or an argument about the best Linux distro — all welcome. I reply fast; blame the terminal reflexes.