Selected Work
Maira: An AI Companion That Remembers & Cares
Early-stage emotionally-intelligent AI companion focused on memory, safety, and human-like support. Currently iterating on system prompts and prompt-engineering to make interactions safer and more empathetic.
Building a Social Media Recommendation Algorithm from Scratch
Ever wondered how social media algorithms know you so well? I built one from scratch to find out, everything from basic scoring to embeddings, FAISS indexing, and the exploitation-exploration tradeoff. A deep dive into the math and code behind your For You page.
Recent Writing
The ML Fundamentals Handbook
Fundamental ML concepts with examples and explanations that feel like a conversation, not a lecture. A guide for building your machine learning foundation before you get to know about different...
AWS Cloud Quest Task 6: Connecting VPCs
Learning how VPC Peering lets different departments communicate directly without submitting tickets every time they need to access shared resources. Secure, private, and way more efficient.
AWS Cloud Quest Task 5: VPCs
Helping a bank fix their connectivity issues by setting up VPC Internet Gateways. Turns out, VPCs don't come with internet access by default - you gotta configure it yourself.
AWS Cloud Quest Task 4: AWS Pricing (Spoiler: It Adds Up Fast)
Using AWS Price Calculator to estimate costs for a surf shop's cloud migration. Played around with instance types, scaling, and discovered that cloud bills can get wild real quick