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At Devfolio

I’ve been around hackathons since 2020. They got me my first job.

At Devfolio (opens in a new tab), I manage bits of almost everything: community, ops, support, initiatives & student programs, video editing, photography and everything else in between.

I have a hard time staying in one lane, but one thing is common:

making the builder experience a little better.

Initiatives and Hackathons

I have contributed to builder initiatives across formats, geographies and occasionally modes of transportA hackathon on a moving train. BlockTrain..

• 3 with Anthropic
  • Build India (opens in a new tab): a builder-first AI sprint focused on products made for Indian realities;
  • Push to Prod (opens in a new tab) Hackathon with Genspark & Anthropic (Singapore)
    • My first try at editing a recap video Video Recap (opens in a new tab)
  • Push to Prod (opens in a new tab) Hackathon: Building at the Frontier
• BlockTrain (opens in a new tab): 36-hour hackathon on train (so cool of us, right?)
• ETHIndiaVilla (opens in a new tab) (yes, a hackathon in a villa): a smaller and more intentional builder format
• Online support for ETHDenver 2026 (opens in a new tab) and The Synthesis (opens in a new tab) (one of the agentic hackathons)

Programs

I also ran the university program for Devfolio Student Hackathon Grants with AWS (opens in a new tab) , helping student organisers access grants, resources, operational support, and the Devfolio platform.

I handle a chunk of University Relations at Devfolio.

(so when you see a hackathon (opens in a new tab) appear on Devfolio, there’s a decent chance I’ve looked at it, spoken to the organisers, or verified it)

Agentic Systems

The recurring problem

Community and support work contains a surprising amount of repeated judgment: finding the real request in a noisy inbox, locating the right internal context, deciding when to escalate, and turning scattered signals into something useful for builders.

I began treating those repetitions as systems-design opportunities, and here’s what I built:

• Email Automation: an AI-powered email operations agent that reviews incoming support emails, classifies and prioritises requests, and drafts context-aware replies. It automates repetitive inbox work while escalating complex cases to the appropriate team.
• Community Agent:
  • I use Hermes as a personal operations layer I call Devfolio Brain
  • Devfolio Brain is an internal AI agent that turns Devfolio’s Notion playbooks and meeting notes into quick, source-backed answers, drafts, and operational updates. It helps the community team plan events, retrieve context, and maintain shared knowledge without having to hunt through documents.
  • It connects to the tools around the work, retrieves context, runs scheduled routines, and improves as I turn decisions into reusable skills and operating rules.
• Support Bot:
  • I built a multi-channel RAG assistant around Devfolio’s guide and blog. It combines semantic and full-text retrieval, expands neighbouring context, returns source links, keeps conversation context, and escalates when the evidence is not strong enough.
  • It runs as a Telegram bot, so anyone can ask it a question about the platform directly.

Community Experiments

• Vibe With Hermes Agent:
  • Using Hermes internally eventually evolved into a small, hands-on meetup focused on building agents with your own context.
  • This was probably the first event where I genuinely felt like I was doing everything: planning, organising, comms, programming, running the workshop, helping builders, and photographing the thing when I had a free hand (felt like a single-man army)
    • blog here (opens in a new tab)
    • captured the event (here (opens in a new tab))
• HMF, Hack Make Fix (opens in a new tab)
  • A small hardware-focused experiment I helped organise.
  • Captured the event (photo gallery (opens in a new tab))

Personal Projects

Things I make outside work, usually with friends, out of curiosity, and under a short deadline.

Scratch Blogs

December 2024

• A web-based tool for writing and formatting with Markdown, drawing diagrams in Excalidraw, and generating content from those drawings.
• Real-time diagram creation, seamless image uploads, and structured content built from the drawings themselves.
• Stack: React, TypeScript and Express, deployed on an Azure VM.
• Backend on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

NAASH, Not Another AI Shell

November 2024

• An AI-powered terminal shell built for speed: natural-language interaction, clipboard management and error-log history.
• Won 1st prize at Hack This Fall Virtual, 1,000 USD.
• Stack: Node.js, CLI and AI.
• On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Snippet Safe

January 2024

• A bookmarking tool for storing and organising code snippets, using Hugging Face sentence-similarity models to compare text embeddings.
• Won 1st prize at FrostHacks, an in-person hackathon sponsored by MLH, 12,000 INR.
• On GitHub (opens in a new tab)