👋🏼 Welcome to my little corner on the Internet!
I'm a curious builder who loves turning messy, real-world problems into clean technical solutions. Right now, I'm doing that as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Tavily, working at the intersection of AI and search. Before that I shipped LLM-powered tools in edtech and private equity - a path I carved out after teaching myself to code and leaving a career in economics.
Outside of work, you'll find me clicking landscape photographs, chasing high scores in Balatro, or experimenting in the kitchen as I learn to cook on my own!
If you have an interesting project that you want to build, or ideas that you'd like to chat about, I'm always open to connecting!
Blog
View all postsRebuilding My India Trade Scraper, Seven Years Later
Apr 2026
Seven years ago I scraped India's trade data and never analyzed it. Now I rebuilt the whole thing in an afternoon and finally asked the questions I couldn't back then.
The Age of Personal Software
Dec 2025
How AI-assisted coding helped me build a comprehensive personal data platform.
Pokemon Showdown AI Arena
Dec 2025
Building an LLM agent harness for Pokemon battles and exploring games as benchmarks for AI capabilities.
Exploring GEPA and DSPy for AI system optimization
Sep 2025
An overview of DSPy and GEPA for AI system optimization.
Building RL environments for open-source AGI
Aug 2025
Weekend notes on porting environments, running evaluations, and serving LMs on a cloud-hosted GPU.
Selected Projects
View all projectsA dashboard for the latest Polymarket markets in your terminal, with AI-powered market research

A visual exploration of LLM feature activations by generating images on feature-adjusted outputs.

A choose-your-own-adventure game built using LangGraph, Flux, and Next.js in 24 hours
Tiny autograd engine with an interactive Streamlit demo to visualize backpropagation and a 3-class 2D classifier.

AI-powered YouTube-based learning platform

Automated WhatsApp bot for accident reporting and emergency response for endangered animals in Costa Rica
Work Experience
Forward Deployed Engineer
Tavily
Mar 2026 - Present
Software Engineer, Private Equity Innovation
Bain & Company
May 2025 - Mar 2026
AI Engineer
Memorang
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Research Assistant
McGill University
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Associate, Private Equity
Bain & Company
Sep 2020 - May 2023
Intern, Public Transit Infrastructure
NITI Aayog
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Connect
Feel free to contact me at lakshyaag1202@gmail.com