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        "ai",
        "people"
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        "web",
        "culture"
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        "Go",
        "OpenAI",
        "Postgres"
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        "To be launched: Nov 2026"
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      "title": "Tagl",
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        "share",
        "social"
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        "Drift"
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        "tool",
        "hackernews"
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        "Javascript"
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        "Extension that helps get a quick overview of what the Hacker News is saying about a particular web article/link",
        "Complemented with a Telegram bot: https://reorientinglife.substack.com/p/optimizing-my-hacker-news-experience",
        "Published in Hacker News with great reception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927794"
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      "title": "Loopcart",
      "image": "img/loopcart.png",
      "tagline": "Smart, repeatable lists",
      "tags": [
        "web",
        "privacy",
        "spa",
        "tool"
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        "Google Drive"
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      "description": "Single-page, fully private app to help you view, sort and repeat your various lists in a smart way."
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      "title": "Sutra",
      "image": "img/sutra1.png",
      "tagline": "The smarter browser history",
      "tags": [
        "extension",
        "tool",
        "analytics",
        "privacy"
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        "Chromium",
        "Javascript"
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        "Chrome extension that transforms your browsing history into actionable insights",
        "Features AI-powered semantic search to find pages using natural language queries",
        "Provides analytics including navigation patterns, session tracking, and trend analysis",
        "Smart categorization system with custom categories and automatic domain classification",
        "All data processing happens locally - privacy-first design with no external data transmission"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Marko",
      "image": "img/marko.png",
      "tagline": "Edit Markdown in rich text",
      "tags": [
        "tool",
        "markdown",
        "spa",
        "privacy"
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        "HTML",
        "Javascript"
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      "description": [
        "View & edit markdown content in rich text editor along with ToC support",
        "Client only, SPA"
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      "title": "pipli",
      "tagline": "Auto install pip dependencies",
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        "tool",
        "cli"
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        "Python"
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      "description": "Auto install pip dependencies needed for a given command to run successfully"
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        "REST",
        "FastAPI"
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        "n8n",
        "Agents",
        "LangGraph"
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        "Learnt mobile development and launched 2 apps",
        "Have stayed updated with AI developments and developed several AI solutions",
        "Learnt new dance forms and languages (ongoing)",
        "Volunteered (tech led, taught, consulted) in a tech cooperative - https://www.justuju.in/",
        "Assisting students with visual disabilities with textbook reading"
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        "people",
        "culture"
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      "end": "Jan 2024",
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        "Evaluated and scaled AWS Glue’s orchestration layer",
        "Led successful deprecation of AWS Data Pipeline (DPL)",
        "Led initial designs for Job Run Queueing"
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        "Leadership",
        "Backend"
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      "end": "Dec 2022",
      "location": "Berlin, Germany",
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        "Drove Config Service, IP Management, Mini-DC & automation projects",
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      ],
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        "Leadership",
        "Cloud",
        "Infrastructure",
        "Kubernetes"
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    {
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      "location": "Berlin, Germany",
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        "Golang"
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        "Virtualization"
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        "BigTable",
        "Distributed Systems"
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