Hi, I’m Aakash.
I build software and manage infra.
Backend systems, infrastructure management, AI tooling, open source, and the lessons of building products.
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Redesigning Tenwrite's Observability Stack
Migrating Tenwrite's telemetry from different vendors to our own self-hosted stack.
A Surprising Observation
While benchmarking Trimwise, we found that a smaller, query-aware context could match and sometimes, outperform, a full prompt without losing source provenance.
From a builder to a founder
What changed when building software became a business.
Remote MCPs as local
Making files and artifacts work across remote MCP servers.
The curse of context windows
What large-document extraction taught me about output limits, chunking, and reliable LLM workflows.
Things I’m working on
Tenwrite
A complete content management suite for teams publish from Google Docs to WordPress and Blogger.
Gauntlet
Pushes an agent to perform recursive adversarial review. Makes it question its work, challenge its assumptions, expose defects, and verify the repairs with evidence.
Trimwise
Query-aware extractive context compression for agent workflows. Build high signal prompts within tight budgets.
Pedagogy Academy
A workspace for educators being built with the help of selected educators being shaped by feedback from selected educators. For now, one can plan lessons, create exams, generate answer keys and interact with an agent fine tuned for teaching roles.
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Redesigning Tenwrite's Observability Stack
Migrating Tenwrite's telemetry from different vendors to our own self-hosted stack.
Fixing corrupt NTFS on Linux
An utility to diagnose and fix corrupt NTFS drives and mount them in Linux.
ChatGPT app missed this
An update checker to keep the ChatGPT linux app up-to-date