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about / readme.md

Hi, I'm Shivanshu.
I build things.

I studied civil engineering at IIT Kanpur and taught myself computer science on the side, mostly by building models from scratch until they worked. That turned into two Google Summer of Code projects with OpenCV, gesture recognition at Siemens, tiny models for edge devices, a real-money gaming platform that sixteen thousand people played on, and Pixelsurf, which turns a single prompt into a playable game.

Then the tools changed under my feet. Models now write much of the code I used to type by hand. For a builder, that's the best news in a generation: the gap between an idea and a working thing is shrinking toward zero. What's left is taste, and the nerve to try strange things.

These days I'm a Senior Member of Technical Staff at RISA Labs, and almost everything I build is an always-on AI agent: Max and Optimist at work, Stira and Aide on my own time. Agents that don't wait to be asked are the most interesting thing I can think of to build right now.

So this site is my lab. I use it to try ideas quickly and in public, and to keep notes on what I learn. Some experiments will be useful. Some will just be fun. Both count.

fig. 1: the builder, 1-bit

build log

  1. Feb 2026 - Present

    Senior Member of Technical Staff at RISA Labs Inc.

    Building always-on AI agents. Created Max and Optimist on top of BossConsole: agents with their own computer, deep integrations and an extensive toolset.

  2. Oct 2023 - Oct 2025

    Co-Founder & CTO at Plutus Labs

    Built a Real Money Gaming & Prediction markets platform from scratch, scaling to 16k users within 3 months while managing multiple platform pivots & fast paced feature development.

  3. Jul 2023 - Feb 2024

    AI Software Engineer at RISA Labs Inc.

    Worked on early-stage AI systems in healthcare, spanning insurer-facing analytics and a proof-of-concept for automating oncology pre-authorization using multi-agent LLM pipelines and unstructured medical data.

  4. Oct 2022 - Sep 2023

    Co-Founder at Unicohub / Plutus

    Co-founded and built a creator fan platform from idea to MVP, enabling users to interact with their fans through live streams and chat.

  5. May 2022 - Sep 2022

    Contributor, OpenCV

    Contributed to OpenCV as GSoC participant, implementing speech recognition capabilities via AudioIO module.

  6. May 2022 - Jul 2022

    Research Intern at Siemens Technology India

    Designed and implemented a real-time dynamic hand gesture recognition model for industrial IoT applications.

  7. Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

    AI Intern at EDGENeural.ai

    Developed edge AI solutions for resource-constrained devices and IoT applications.

  8. May 2021 - Aug 2021

    Student Developer, OpenCV

    Created speech recognition sample in OpenCV using AudioIO module, implementing multimodal data processing.

  9. May 2020 - Jul 2020

    Summer SDE Intern at Monetix Ltd.

    Worked on full-stack development projects, extending backend systems and building mobile features.

  10. 2019 - 2023

    Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering

    Self-taught Computer Science and AI while majoring in Civil Engineering. Built strong foundation in ML/DL, implementing models from scratch.