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Kaya AI IIT India Hackathon 2026
A team of two against teams of four. Presented Foreman live on the deployed app, not a recording, to judges from Google, OpenAI, Meta and the Kaya CEO, and took every question. |
Engineering Intern · Kaya AI (US startup) Remote, from September 2026, while in 2nd year. I ship into a production codebase and stand up daily with the US team. |
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4 PRs in, 4 more in review 3 merged into Docling (69k★, IBM Research) and 1 into PyBaMM, a GSoC org. Every one a real parser bug or feature, none of them typo fixes. |
PulseBoard · Winter of Code '26 Owned the backend: IMAP email pipeline → Gemini event extraction, TOTP 2FA, JWT + Google OAuth, a cron real-time engine. 9 PRs merged. |
| Repo | PR | What it does | Status |
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| docling-project/docling · 69k★ | #4721 | Fixes 3 AsciiDoc nested-list parsing bugs |  |
| docling-project/docling · 69k★ | #4822 | Nests lists that use different bullet markers | |
| docling-project/docling · 69k★ | #4824 | Adds bold, italic and monospace parsing to AsciiDoc | |
| pybamm-team/PyBaMM · GSoC org | #5923 | Rejects non-positive step times, accepts NumPy temperatures | |
| mesa/mesa · 3.9k★ | #3959 | Even-r layout for HexGrid cell positions |  |
| pybamm-team/PyBaMM | #5971 | Clearer step.string errors, tolerates extra whitespace |
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| prowler-cloud/prowler · 15k★ | #12586 · #12587 | Two new SageMaker security checks | |
| Project | What it is | Stack |
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| Mender | My startup, co-founded. Keeps AI-built apps working and safe: health and security checks, surgical fixes, regression locks. Building in private. | Python |
| Foreman | Schedule-consequence engine for construction supply chains. Given a late material, it finds which activities slip, whether handover survives, and the cheapest priced fix, with the probability from 3,000 Monte-Carlo passes rather than an LLM guess. 2nd of 1,460. | FastAPI · Neo4j · LangGraph · React 19 |
| PulseBoard | Campus event aggregator. Reads college email, AI-extracts the events, notifies students. | Express · MongoDB · Gemini · Expo |
| TourThat | Phone video of a house → shareable 3D walkthrough in the browser, with Gaussian splatting. | Three.js · COLMAP · Vite |
| MindLedger | Live. An AI pressure valve, not a to-do list: Gemini breaks tasks down, the UI reacts to dread. | Next.js · Supabase · Gemini |
Right now: three hackathon builds in flight: Nebius × NVIDIA, Airwallex and GitLab.
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