~/about

namespace shlok {
    constexpr auto role     = "Founding AI Engineer @ Clera";
    constexpr auto location = "San Francisco, CA";

    std::vector<std::string> interests = {
        "AI systems", "compilers", "databases", "inference",
        "agents", "competitive programming", "quantitative systems",
        "making fast things faster"
    };

    auto philosophy = R"(
        understand the paper;
        build the primitive;
        measure the bottleneck;
        remove the abstraction tax;
        ship.
    )";
}

~/featured_systems

char-transformers An N-dimensional Transformer built from scratch in C++17 after reading Attention Is All You Need—without Eigen, BLAS, or a deep-learning framework.	ML A modular machine-learning library written primarily in C++, with Python bindings and implementations spanning regression, classification, clustering, and neural networks.
vecclean A low-latency text cleaning, deduplication, chunking, and vectorization pipeline for production RAG workloads, combining Python ergonomics with C++ acceleration.	termExplain A Homebrew-installable CLI that runs code, catches terminal errors, and uses Gemini to explain what broke, why it broke, and how to fix it.
competitive-programming A growing collection of C++ solutions to Kattis problems—algorithmic puzzles, data structures, graph problems, dynamic programming, and the occasional fight with a time limit.

~/toolchain

high-level idea
      │
      ▼
research paper ──► reference implementation ──► profiler ──► optimized system
                         ▲                              │
                         └────────── benchmarks ◄──────┘

~/telemetry

~/currently

{
  "role": "Founding AI Engineer @ Clera",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "current_mode": "reading abstractions from the bottom up",
  "usually_found": [
    "implementing papers",
    "profiling already-fast systems",
    "solving competitive programming problems",
    "asking what happens below the API"
  ],
  "status": "still compiling"
}

$ ./shlok --mode build

[OK]   ideas loaded
[OK]   profiler attached
[WARN] abstraction detected
[RUN]  removing unnecessary layers...

_{exit status: still building}