STATUSOpen to AI Engineering roles in Sydney · Krama Core live on PyPI · Last shipped: DeceptionArena paper draft (Jun 2026)

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Available in Sydney · Full work rights until Sep 2028


Founder · AI & Data Engineer. Building open-source healthcare infrastructure for India's last mile — from Sydney.

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Live on PyPIKrama CoreABDM/FHIR R4 toolkit
998 / 998DeceptionArenastress tests passing
0.984Kaggle TM-ScoreStanford RNA 3D Folding
50+Students Mentoredper semester · USyd
About
01 · Origin

I'm from Andhra Pradesh — Telugu, with family roots in villages where the nearest hospital is 60 kilometres away. When my grandmother needed care, our family carried her records on paper. That memory is why Nirvya Labs exists.

02 · What I'm building

I'm the Founder of Nirvya Labs, a healthcare-access infrastructure company. Our first product line, Krama, is Python-first open-source tooling for India's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) — the compliance and FHIR layer that gets the last mile online. Krama Core v0.1.0 is live on PyPI. Beyond healthcare, I'm building a second product line around deep-science research tools (archaeology, oceanography, carbon dating), starting with ChronoLens.

I'm also the solo founder of OldTalkies, a platform for Telugu cinema — editorial content in the spirit of Variety and Bloomberg, a verified marketplace of industry professionals (DOPs, music directors, editors, lyricists), AI craft tools, and community — deliberately architected to be free of the fan-war toxicity that defines most cinema discourse. Public launch: mid-to-late September 2026.

03 · Day-to-day

I engineer AI systems and healthcare data pipelines. I tutor Data Structures & Algorithms to 50+ students per semester at the University of Sydney. I've worked on the Data team at St Vincent de Paul Society NSW. And I ship — DeceptionArena, PathFinder (NGM “Most Disruptive” winner), CareBridge, a Kaggle RNA folding pipeline that hit 0.984 TM-score, an autonomous-maritime CV pipeline at Ocius.

If you're building healthtech, agentic AI, or infrastructure — I'd like to talk.

  • BASED · SYDNEY, AU · ROOTS · ANDHRA PRADESH, IN
  • EDU · M.IT (DATA ANALYTICS) · UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
  • EDU · B.TECH (HONS) CSE · GMR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • RIGHTS · SUBCLASS 485 · FULL WORK RIGHTS TO SEP 2028
Companies

What I'm founding.

Two companies, one thesis: own the layer everyone else builds on.

Founder
Nirvya Labs

Healthcare-access infrastructure for India's last mile

A parent company building open-source developer tools and end-user products around India's ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) healthcare rails, plus a second product line for deep-science research.

Krama

The healthcare arm. Krama Core (open-source FHIR toolkit, live) → Krama Link (cross-facility record transfer) → PHC pilot with the Andhra Pradesh government → clinical AI on the Krama data rails.

Deep-science line

Advanced research tools starting with ChronoLens (cultural heritage), with planned expansion into oceanography, marine biology, carbon dating, and landscape science.

Owning the compliance and data-transformation layer is a defensible moat. Once the rails exist, everything on top — federated learning, clinical AI, patient identity — becomes possible.

GitHubKrama Core · PyPI
Solo FounderLaunching September 2026
OldTalkies

A Timeless Space

A platform for Telugu cinema. Four surfaces on one product: editorial content with Variety / Bloomberg energy, a verified marketplace of industry professionals (DOPs, music directors, editors, lyricists), AI craft tools, and community features.

  • English-primary editorial voice with strategic Tenglish (Telugu + English) accents. Cinema for people who care about craft, not scoreboards.
  • Anti-toxicity by design: no star comparisons, no box-office tracking, film-centric organisation, AI moderation on community surfaces.
  • Roadmap: public launch mid-to-late September 2026, with planned expansion into Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema after the Telugu vertical stabilises.
Experience

Where I've worked.

Nirvya LabsNow
Apr 2026 – present

Founder

  • Building Krama — open-source Python tooling for India's ABDM healthcare rails.
  • Published Krama Core v0.1.0 to PyPI (`pip install krama-core`). Three FHIR R4 bundle generators (OP Consult, Prescription, Discharge Summary). 21 tests, CI/CD across Python 3.10–3.12, MIT licensed.
  • Roadmap: Krama Link (hospital cross-facility record transfer) → Andhra Pradesh PHC pilot → clinical AI on the Krama data rails.
PythonFastAPIFHIR R4PydanticPostgreSQLAWS
University of SydneyNow
Jan 2024 – Nov 2026

Academic Tutor — Data Structures & Algorithms

  • Teach COMP2123 / COMP9123 tutorials — binary trees, priority queues, graph traversals, dynamic programming, complexity analysis — to 50+ students per semester across undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts.
  • Lead improvements to lab materials, grading aids, and test cases; designing better tooling with iterative testing and feedback loops.
  • 2+ years translating complex algorithmic concepts to varied audiences, mentoring on debugging and problem-solving in C++ and Python.
C++PythonDSA
St Vincent de Paul Society NSW
Apr 2025 – Apr 2026

Systems Engineer · Data Team

  • Built Python scripts to automate routine data extraction and cleansing, reducing manual effort in the team's ETL processes.
  • Assisted with data integration workflows across SAP, Workday, and Azure data services, ensuring data consistency across source systems.
  • Supported the data team in troubleshooting pipeline issues, validating outputs, and documenting data flows and transformation logic.
PythonSQLAzureSAPWorkday
Ocius Technology
Aug 2024 – Nov 2024

Computer Vision Engineer

  • Industry capstone in a team of 4 — delivered a real-time maritime object detection pipeline for autonomous unmanned surface vehicles.
  • Led the model-optimisation workstream: INT8 quantisation, TensorRT, and inference batching. Team-wide effort achieved a 9× throughput gain on NVIDIA Jetson edge hardware.
  • Containerised the pipeline with Docker and shipped to production at Ocius Technology.
PythonYOLOv8TensorRTDockerCUDA
HRVITE Services Pvt Ltd
Apr 2023 – Jul 2023

Frontend Developer Intern

  • Re-engineered Angular UI components and interaction flows, improving usability and contributing to a measured ~15% increase in user retention.
  • Built data-driven UI components consuming REST APIs; implemented client-side data transformation and state management for complex nested HR datasets.
  • Implemented front-end unit tests and participated in code reviews to reduce regressions and improve maintainability.
AngularTypeScriptREST APIs
Revidd
Jul 2022 – Jan 2023

Software Engineer Trainee

  • Built 15+ responsive interfaces with ReactJS integrated to REST APIs, contributing to a reported ~25% uplift in user engagement.
  • Operated in Agile teams (stand-ups, sprint planning) and led peer code reviews to accelerate delivery and knowledge transfer.
  • Contributed to backend data services and API development, handling data serialisation and transformation across system boundaries.
ReactJavaScriptREST APIs
Projects

What I've built.

Research, products, and experiments — numbered by impact.

01
ResearchAI/ML

DeceptionArena

In progress

Cross-game LLM deception benchmark spanning five social deduction games: Skull, Coup, The Resistance, One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Secret Hitler. Sole author.

All five engines built and stress-tested — 998/998 tests passing. Full evaluation pipeline (1,000 games in ~3 seconds). Publication-quality figures (radar, win-rate bars, ELO progression, bluff analysis). Complete LaTeX paper draft. Target: arXiv preprint → NeurIPS 2026 workshop.

PythonasyncioOpenAI APIAnthropic APIDeepSeekLlamamatplotlibLaTeX
02
Open SourceHealthcare

Krama Core

Shipped

The Python-first, developer-obsessed open-source toolkit for building on India's ABDM. Generates ABDM-compliant FHIR R4 clinical document bundles. The first public product from Nirvya Labs.

v0.1.0 live on PyPI as krama-core. Zero runtime dependencies beyond Pydantic. 21-test suite. CI/CD across Python 3.10/3.11/3.12 with bandit + pip-audit. MIT licensed.

PythonPydanticFHIR R4GitHub Actions
More work
03
Shipped

ChronoLens — Cultural Evidence OS

Cultural Evidence OS built at OpenAI Codex Hackathon Sydney 2026 (UTS Startups). Multi-agent AI that classifies every claim as Fact / Hypothesis / Possible Connection / Needs Expert Review.

Next.jsTypeScriptOpenAI Agents SDKmulti-API
AI/MLFull StackHackathon
04
Most Disruptive · NGM HackathonShipped

PathFinder — Mental Health Triage

Triage and routing system for LMNSPN, a mental-health network. 24/7 intake chatbot, QR-based referral portal, and an admin dashboard with the org's first-ever analytics.

ReactFastAPIAzure AI ServicesAzure SpeechAzure OpenAI
HackathonAI/MLFull Stack
05
Shipped

CareBridge — Multi-Agent Healthcare AI

Care-transition system with six parallel agents processing hospital discharge summaries to catch medication errors before they reach patients.

OpenAI Agents SDKFHIR R4FastAPIReactVercel
AI/MLFull StackHealthcare
06
Shipped

Stanford RNA 3D Folding

Kaggle competition: validation TM-Score 0.984 using template-based modelling + RibonanzaNet + classical MDS + GPU spring refinement.

PyTorchRibonanzaNetNumPySciPyCUDA
AI/MLResearch
07
Shipped

MedVault — Multi-Tenant Clinical AI

Multi-tenant clinical AI platform for healthcare in emerging markets. RxAI for symptom + medical-image analysis, IoT cold-chain monitoring, offline-first via IndexedDB, drug intelligence hub.

Next.js 15TypeScriptFirebaseGemini Pro VisionPython Flask+2
AI/MLFull StackHealthcare
08
Shipped

Ocius Maritime CV Pipeline

Real-time computer-vision pipeline on autonomous maritime craft (Bluebottle unmanned surface vehicles). Led the model-optimisation workstream — team-wide effort delivered a 9× throughput gain on edge hardware.

PythonYOLOv8PyTorchTensorRTDocker+1
AI/ML
09
In progress

LLM Latent Space Manipulation

Neuron-level interventions in Llama-3, probing attention-head representations to steer model outputs via internal activation steering.

PyTorchHugging Face TransformersJupyter
AI/MLResearch
10
Shipped

MangRAG — Document Intelligence RAG

Production-ready RAG pipeline: upload PDFs and ask questions in natural language, with per-source attribution for traceable answers, served through async FastAPI.

PythonFastAPIMongoDB AtlasHuggingFaceGroq+1
AI/MLFull Stack
11
Shipped

PDF-RAG — Chat With Your Documents

Production-quality RAG system to chat with PDF and text documents — built from scratch with a learning-first approach, every module annotated with the concepts behind it.

PythonLangChainBM25Cross-EncoderStreamlit
AI/MLFull Stack
12
Shipped

anomaly-detector — Log AIOps

AI-powered log anomaly detection (AIOps). A Flask app that analyses cloud log files and flags anomalies via Isolation Forest, One-Class SVM, and an ensemble voting approach.

PythonFlaskscikit-learnIsolation Forest
AI/ML
13
Concept

AgentDOM — Browser Agent Middleware

Middleware on Playwright / Chrome DevTools Protocol that emits structured DOM representations instead of screenshots, enabling faster and cheaper browser-agent interactions.

PythonPlaywrightChrome DevTools Protocol
AI/MLResearch
14
In progress

Minto — Personal Finance

React Native + Expo personal-finance app. Hero feature: natural-language expense entry — "Dinner 120 split 4 ways" — parsed on-device.

Expo SDK 55React NativeZustandSQLiteNativeWind+1
Full StackSide
14 shipped— more on GitHub
Tech

What I work with.

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • C++

AI / ML

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Hugging Face
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • Anthropic API
  • RAG
  • Fine-tuning

Healthcare Data

  • FHIR R4
  • ABDM
  • HL7

Web & Mobile

  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Snowflakelearning
  • Airflowlearning

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Vercel
  • CUDA
  • TensorRT
Writing

Thinking out loud.

Writing coming soon.

Topics: open-source healthcare infrastructure, LLM evaluation, building solo.

Background

Credentials.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services · Sep 2025

  • McKinsey Forward Program

    McKinsey & Company · Apr–Jun 2026 · enrolled

Education

  • Master of Information Technology (Data Analytics & Management)

    University of Sydney · 2023 – 2025

    Sydney, Australia

  • B.Tech (Honours) — Computer Science & Engineering

    GMR Institute of Technology · 2019 – 2023

    India · Bioinformatics focus

Research

  • Measuring Deception in LLMs Across Social Deduction Games

    In preparation — targeting arXiv · 2025

Contact

Let's build
something together.

Open to Software Engineer, AI/ML Engineer, and Data Engineer roles — especially in healthcare AI and infrastructure. If you're building something that matters, let's talk.

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OldTalkies — a platform for Telugu cinema, launching September 2026.