work

things i've built, written, and done

resume

experience

eng intern @ natural.co

jan 2026 - present

building agentic payments

pythongotypescriptpostgres
eng intern @ natural.co

ml researcher @ mit media lab

jan 2025 - present

fine-tuned open source llms to act as personal proxies

pytorchhuggingface transformerstrl
ml researcher @ mit media lab

ml engineering intern @ mosaic (yc w25)

april 2025 - aug 2025

built ai video editing agents. went 0-to-1 on the developer api, docs, mcp server, video processing systems.

pythonawslanggraphffmpegremotion
ml engineering intern @ mosaic (yc w25)

projects

re:zero

building an agentic pentesting platform.

agentscybersecurityml
re:zero

SHFLA

turing-complete two-way visualizer (shoegaze rock/any music <-> fractals) using the julia set and audio analysis. won the mit media lab hackathon, hit the front page of hacker news, and got to demo to stephen wolfram, manolis kellis, joscha bach, and at the suno office.

pythonfractalslibrosapygameopengl
SHFLA

kpop dance formation generator

create dance formation guides from a choreography video using computer vision. 2nd place @ boston hacks.

yolov8deepfacetypescriptthreejs
kpop dance formation generator

robocup

2023

national winner, captain of the indian team, international finalist against 50+ countries. zero funding taken.

rosmicropythonraspberry piarduinopytorch
robocup

onemonth.dev

learn anything in 30 days. nov 2025 update: $2700 MRR.

pythonfastapilanggraphviteshadcnperplexityfirecrawlgemini
onemonth.dev

manimtired

generate educational videos in the style of 3blue1brown using his framework manim :) won dorm hackathon

pythonmanim
manimtired

roami

ai roadtrip companion. built for hackbeanpot 2025. you can play geoguessr, get location-specific music recs, customized tours, travel challenges, etc.

roami

perry the platypus!?

make secret agent profiles of your pets. joke project to try moondream; moondream team saw the project on twitter! :)

nextjsmoondream
perry the platypus!?

algorithmically generating glyphs

qurwenyan glyph generation (for my fantasy conlang)

python
algorithmically generating glyphs

paperchase

turn research papers into startups. won AWS MCP hackathon.

paperchase

prosperousss

1st place @ finhacks 2024. financial digital twin for governments, banks, and marketers to use to understand financial characteristics and health of extremely specific demographics for pricing and policy decisions.

typescriptopenaiperplexity
prosperousss

pocket realms! :D

I'm a major worldbuilder, and I've been working on a fictional research paper about Zindabuul's magic system. This is the first draft of the paper, and I'm currently refining the system.

worldbuilding :OLaTeXnano banana pro
pocket realms! :D

fiberfinder

finalist in the blue ocean student entrepreneurship competition

pythonopencvreact native
fiberfinder

talks

A Turing-Complete Fractal-Musical Language | Shresht Bhowmick & Arnav Dave @ MIT Media Lab

nov 2024

demo of SHFLA, my turing-complete shoegaze rock & fractal language which won the mit media lab hackathon.

A Turing-Complete Fractal-Musical Language | Shresht Bhowmick & Arnav Dave @ MIT Media Lab

other

sapientia research

applied math and emergent technology research lab. accepted into the sixth international conference on the mathematics of neuroscience and ai, as well as the residency.

sapientia research

tetracorp

boutique engineering firm building agents, ai infra, and hardware, and training specialized models for startups and enterprises that need them.

tetracorp