All projects, writing, and experience updates from Yash Lunawat — AI, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling. https://yashlunawat.com en-IN Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT yash.l23csai@nst.rishihood.edu.in (Yash Lunawat) 1440 Citizen-first search and navigation layer for public information in India. Makes Indian public information more navigable by connecting civic questions to responsible offices, evidence, and official paths instead of opaque search results https://yashlunawat.com/projects/nagriksetu https://yashlunawat.com/projects/nagriksetu Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Civic Tech Next.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, PWA Status: In Progress Zero-hosting-cost status monitoring powered by GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages. Shows how far GitHub-native automation can go: scheduled monitoring, persistence, alerts, and a live status page without paid infrastructure https://yashlunawat.com/projects/health-check https://yashlunawat.com/projects/health-check Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Observability Python, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, YAML, HTML, Email Alerts Status: Completed Joining RTP Global as an intern, stepping closer to the venture capital and startup ecosystem in Bengaluru. — Expanding from building products into understanding how venture-backed startups are evaluated, supported, and scaled https://yashlunawat.com/experience/intern-rtp-global https://yashlunawat.com/experience/intern-rtp-global Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Work Experience Venture Capital, Startups, Market Research, Founder Ecosystem, Product Thinking Duration: Jun 2026 – Present Founded and led the university's first E-Cell, building a community around startup culture, product thinking, and entrepreneurship on campus. — Established the university's first entrepreneurship community, creating a platform for students to explore startup culture and product thinking https://yashlunawat.com/experience/founder-president-ecell https://yashlunawat.com/experience/founder-president-ecell Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leadership Entrepreneurship, Community Building, Leadership, Event Management, Strategic Planning Duration: 2024 – Present Secure role-based programme management portal scaffold with PostgreSQL-backed authorization. Provides a secure foundation for role-based programme operations with clear auth boundaries and a production-oriented monorepo structure https://yashlunawat.com/projects/central-programme-portal https://yashlunawat.com/projects/central-programme-portal Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT GovTech React, Vite, TypeScript, Fastify, Drizzle ORM, PostgreSQL Status: In Progress Production-grade VC operating system for portfolio intelligence and LP operations. Turns VC fund operations into one auditable system of record, with AI layered on top of deterministic portfolio logic instead of replacing it https://yashlunawat.com/projects/fundos https://yashlunawat.com/projects/fundos Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Venture Ops Next.js 15, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, Tailwind CSS v4 Status: Completed Self-hosted Git platform with smart HTTP, SSH transport, orgs, and webhooks. Demystifies GitHub-style platform internals by implementing auth, repo metadata, Git transport, webhooks, and a browser UI in one deployable system https://yashlunawat.com/projects/forge https://yashlunawat.com/projects/forge Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Developer Tools Go, PostgreSQL, sqlc, Docker, SSH, JWT Status: In Progress Single-binary self-hosted app deployment manager for Linux VPS machines. Makes self-hosting practical on a plain VPS by packaging bootstrap, deployment, logs, lifecycle, and backups into one small Go control plane https://yashlunawat.com/projects/vessel https://yashlunawat.com/projects/vessel Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT DevOps Go, SQLite, Docker, nginx, systemd, YAML Status: Completed Agentic commerce protocol walkthrough for discovery, checkout, identity, and payments. Makes agentic commerce interoperability easier to reason about by turning UCP concepts into visible flows and inspectable examples https://yashlunawat.com/projects/ucp-demo https://yashlunawat.com/projects/ucp-demo Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agentic Commerce HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Universal Commerce Protocol, GitHub Pages Status: Completed Automated tech digest newsletter powered by n8n workflow automation. Automated tech digest pipeline that eliminates manual curation through n8n workflow orchestration https://yashlunawat.com/projects/newsletter https://yashlunawat.com/projects/newsletter Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack TypeScript, n8n, Turbo, pnpm Status: In Progress Cross-platform AI life management app for iOS, Android, and Web. Unified life management system with on-device AI, privacy-first finance tracking, and deep iOS system integrations https://yashlunawat.com/projects/lifeos https://yashlunawat.com/projects/lifeos Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mobile Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Firebase, CoreML, Claude API Status: Completed A technical deep-dive into the file-based memory system I built so Claude Code actually remembers context, decisions, and project state across every session. https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/how-i-built-a-second-brain-for-claude-code https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/how-i-built-a-second-brain-for-claude-code Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Artificial Intelligence AI, ClaudeCode, DeveloperTooling, AgenticSystems 8 min read Mid-frequency ML trading system for cryptocurrency perpetual futures. Research-grade trading system: Sharpe 1.41 (walk-forward 2021–2024), Deflated Sharpe 0.87, max drawdown 8.2%, average holding period 47 minutes https://yashlunawat.com/projects/tessera https://yashlunawat.com/projects/tessera Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT ML / Finance Python, Jupyter, LightGBM, DuckDB, Docker, Nautilus Trader Status: In Progress Local-first BYOK desktop app for AI-powered social publishing across LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. v1.0.4 released — local-first BYOK social publishing with zero server dependency, OAuth via system browser, and multi-provider AI gateway https://yashlunawat.com/projects/ghostpilot https://yashlunawat.com/projects/ghostpilot Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack Electron 39, React 19, TypeScript, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, Tailwind CSS v4 Status: Completed Production-deployed subdomain enumeration tool with edge caching and SSE streaming. Production-deployed OSINT tool with edge-native architecture, sub-100ms cached lookups, and real-time streaming results https://yashlunawat.com/projects/subdomain-finder https://yashlunawat.com/projects/subdomain-finder Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack TypeScript, React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Zustand, Hono Status: Completed Visual and accessibility regression monitoring on Cloudflare infrastructure. Edge-native visual regression and accessibility monitoring — perceptual vector similarity catches UI drift and WCAG violations automatically on every deploy https://yashlunawat.com/projects/driftcheck https://yashlunawat.com/projects/driftcheck Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack TypeScript, React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Hono, Cloudflare Workers Status: Completed Real-time multilingual voice conferencing at the Cloudflare edge. Edge-native multilingual conferencing with zero external servers — full STT/translation/TTS pipeline running on Cloudflare infrastructure https://yashlunawat.com/projects/babel-room https://yashlunawat.com/projects/babel-room Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack TypeScript, React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Hono, Cloudflare Workers Status: Completed Distributed systems sandbox running Raft, CRDT, and gossip protocols on real edge infrastructure. Makes distributed consensus and replication algorithms tangible — Raft, CRDT, and epidemic protocols running on real geographically distributed infrastructure, not simulations https://yashlunawat.com/projects/quorum https://yashlunawat.com/projects/quorum Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack TypeScript, React, D3, Tailwind CSS, Hono, Cloudflare Workers Status: Completed AI agents are powerful but unreliable by default. Learn how agent harnesses bring structure, control, and reliability to build production-ready AI systems. https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/what-is-an-agent-harness https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/what-is-an-agent-harness Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Artificial Intelligence AI, AgentSystems, LLM, SoftwareEngineering, TechBlog, SystemDesign 6 min read Self-hosted cloud deployment platform — deploy and manage cloud projects from a single CLI. End-to-end self-hosted PaaS — from CLI deploy command to containerised AWS run — built as a cohesive five-repository ecosystem https://yashlunawat.com/projects/codesetu https://yashlunawat.com/projects/codesetu Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma, AWS, Terraform, Docker Status: In Progress Data-Driven Air Quality Analysis & Policy Simulation Platform. Enables policymakers to simulate and visualize the relationship between economic indicators and air quality outcomes https://yashlunawat.com/projects/air-quality-intelligence https://yashlunawat.com/projects/air-quality-intelligence Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack React.js, Vite, Plotly.js, Python, FastAPI, Pandas Status: Completed Advanced Stock Analysis & Trading Platform. Built a production-ready platform handling real-time market data with efficient caching strategies https://yashlunawat.com/projects/stock-analysis-platform https://yashlunawat.com/projects/stock-analysis-platform Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack React.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, WebSocket Status: Completed Interactive platform to design, simulate, and understand scalable systems. Helps developers and students understand system design concepts through hands-on simulation instead of static diagrams https://yashlunawat.com/projects/system-design-simulator https://yashlunawat.com/projects/system-design-simulator Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full Stack React.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, Express, Canvas API, WebSocket Status: Completed Interactive tool to visualize and compare CPU scheduling algorithms. Helps students visualize and understand complex OS concepts through interactive learning https://yashlunawat.com/projects/cpu-scheduling-visualizer https://yashlunawat.com/projects/cpu-scheduling-visualizer Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Frontend React.js, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Vite, D3.js Status: Completed Today we're diving into something really fascinating from the world of data encoding – base65536, a project by qntm that takes the concept of base64 encoding and cranks it up to eleven. https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/breaking-down-base65536-the-encoding-that-speaks-in-emoji https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/breaking-down-base65536-the-encoding-that-speaks-in-emoji Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Computer Science DataEncoding, ComputerScience, TechBlog, Coding, SoftwareEngineering, StudentDeveloper 5 min read Developed and improved features for the Rishiverse platform using full-stack technologies, focusing on scalable and user-friendly student experiences. — Helped build and scale Rishiverse as a production-grade university platform, improving digital workflows and engagement for students and faculty at Rishihood University https://yashlunawat.com/experience/fullstack-intern-rishihood https://yashlunawat.com/experience/fullstack-intern-rishihood Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Work Experience Node.js, Django, Docker, Nginx, AWS Duration: Oct 2024 – Jan 2026 Led the university's annual tech festival across 3 consecutive editions, growing participation from 450 to 1,800+ attendees. — Scaled Neutron Tech Fest from 450 to 1,800+ attendees across three editions while building all internal tech infrastructure for the event https://yashlunawat.com/experience/head-operations-tech-neutron https://yashlunawat.com/experience/head-operations-tech-neutron Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leadership Event Management, Operations, Web Development, Team Leadership, Logistics Duration: 2023 – 2026 Discover advanced techniques to optimize your React applications for lightning-fast user experiences. https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/mastering-react-performance https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/mastering-react-performance Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Frontend Development React, Performance, Frontend, JavaScript 6 min read Directed India's cultural fest with a core organizing team of 112 members, attracting 1,300+ external participants. — Successfully directed a national-scale cultural festival with 112 organizers and 1,300+ external attendees https://yashlunawat.com/experience/head-damru-cultural-fest https://yashlunawat.com/experience/head-damru-cultural-fest Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Leadership Event Direction, Team Management, Artist Management, Cross-functional Coordination, Logistics Duration: 2024 – 2025 A practical introduction to system design concepts that will help you build better applications and ace technical interviews. https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/system-design-fundamentals https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/system-design-fundamentals Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT System Design System Design, Architecture, Backend, Scalability 10 min read Managed scheduling, logistics, and presented performance metrics to senior leadership. — Helped scale the e-sports program to handle 250+ weekly participants while maintaining quality operations https://yashlunawat.com/experience/operations-intern-frontrow https://yashlunawat.com/experience/operations-intern-frontrow Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Work Experience Team Management, Data Analysis, Operations, Reporting, Cross-functional Collaboration Duration: Sep 2021 – Feb 2022