SOFTWARE ENGINEER
AI SYSTEMS · OPEN-SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE
AI systems.
Open-source
infrastructure.
Software engineer working on real-time voice AI, LLM serving and MLOps. GSoC 2026 mentor and KServe reviewer.
THE JOURNEY / 2023 — 2026
An atlas of my work.
From first commits to production AI.
Every stop, a new field to explore.
A personal atlas of skills & experienceDrag the map to explore. Tap a marker to read its story.
OCT 2023 – MAY 2025
The foundations
Cipher LNMIIT
Member
Jaipur, India
The beginning: computer engineering, smart contracts and a community of builders.
- Joined Cipher in October 2023, exploring Solidity and smart contracts.
- B.Tech. in Communication and Computer Engineering at LNMIIT, November 2023–present. Coursework spans algorithms, databases, operating systems, networks and AI/ML.
Read the complete timeline 9 chapters
- OCT 2023 – MAY 2025
Cipher LNMIIT
Member · Jaipur, India
The beginning: computer engineering, smart contracts and a community of builders.
- APR 2024 – MAR 2025
Phoenix Club, LNMIIT
Member · Jaipur, India
Exploring software that perceives and interacts with the physical world.
- NOV 2024 – PRESENT
Kubeflow / KServe
Open Source Developer · Remote
Modernizing infrastructure used to deploy and manage machine learning models.
- MAR 2025 – MAR 2026
Cipher LNMIIT
Lead · Jaipur, India
From participating in a technical community to helping lead it.
- APR – MAY 2025
Asva Labs
AI Agent Engineer · Part-time · Remote
Applying language models to agent systems and their operations.
- JUN – JUL 2025
faff Technologies
Fullstack + GenAI Engineer Intern · Bengaluru, India
Building the systems behind a growing product and its day-to-day operations.
- AUG 2025 – JAN 2026
Protocol Labs
PLDG Fellow · Cohort 4 · Remote
One of 38 people selected globally for the Protocol Labs Dev Guild cohort.
- 2026
Google Summer of Code / Kubeflow
Mentor & KServe Reviewer · Remote
Growing from contributor to reviewer and mentor within the same open-source community.
- MAY – JUL 2026
Rasen Labs
Member of Technical Staff · Bengaluru, India
Shipped a Hindi and English voice AI platform from first commit to paying customers in 53 days.
I. THE COLLECTION
A few things,
made with purpose.
Selected explorations in making complex systems useful. Each began with a question worth pursuing.
01LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
PrivateGPTA private place to think.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
PrivateGPTA private place to think.
Local AI and document retrieval, built around a simple premise: your thoughts should stay yours.
LOCAL INFERENCE · LOCAL DOCUMENTS
THE QUESTION
Can a useful AI assistant live entirely on your own machine?
THE CRAFT
A Python desktop application combines Qwen inference through vLLM with a PyQt6 interface. Documents are indexed locally in Qdrant, with hybrid retrieval to bring the right context into a conversation.
02OPEN-SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE
KServeBetter foundations. Better tools.
OPEN-SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE
KServeBetter foundations. Better tools.
Modernizing the model-serving interface through Google Summer of Code 2025 with Kubeflow.
GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE · 2025
THE QUESTION
How do you make an established model-serving interface easier to maintain and use?
THE CRAFT
Contributions to KServe’s Models Web Application span Angular modernization, CI improvements, testing, and features for engineers managing deployed machine learning models.
03DECENTRALIZED SYSTEMS
d8nAn idea. A flow. An execution.
DECENTRALIZED SYSTEMS
d8nAn idea. A flow. An execution.
A visual canvas for composing DeFi logic, paired with an engine that responds to on-chain events.
BUILT AT ETHGLOBAL NEW DELHI
THE QUESTION
What if complex DeFi strategies could be assembled visually?
THE CRAFT
A visual workflow builder connects conditional logic, Pyth price feeds, 1inch integrations, and The Graph. Separate signing and execution components turn the graph into an event-driven workflow.
When a model reasons, can we trust what it says?
Independent experiments in chain-of-thought faithfulness and mechanistic interpretability.
II. THE MIND BEHIND THE WORK
A builder’s hands.
A student’s mind.
I’m Harshit Nayan, a software engineer drawn to the space between understanding a system and making it useful.
At Rasen Labs, I built voice AI systems from the application layer to GPU serving. In open source, my work on KServe grew from a GSoC contribution into reviewing code and mentoring contributors. I study Communication and Computer Engineering at LNMIIT, and explore how language models reason.
Understand deeply.
Build deliberately.
Make useful things.
Leave the door open.
THE SANCTUARY / AN INTERACTIVE INTERLUDE
A room built
around light.
Walk beneath the dome.
Look closer at the stone.
Opening the rotunda…The rotunda
Proportion. Light. Silence.
A circular room beneath 140 recessed coffers. Veined marble, bronze and quiet repetitions, made to be explored.
DRAG TO LOOK AROUNDMove the sunlight across the marble.
Turn the day toward noon. The rose opens only beneath the sunbeam.
An original Roman-inspired space. Carved capital: Archaeological Museum in Kraków / RDW MIC.
III. MARGINALIA
Notes from
the process.
Writing is how I slow down enough to understand what I’m building.
IV. THE CONVERSATION
Something on
your mind?
An interesting problem. A shared curiosity. A thing that ought to exist.
I’d like to hear about it.
