I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation.
A recruiter reached out with a remote offer for a YC-backed startup. What I found in the assignment sent me down a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected.
I'm Appaji, or Appu, if you're feeling friendly. I graduated from IIT Patna with a degree in Computer Science (B. Tech). Currently, I'm working as a Web Solutions Engineer at Google, where I spend most of my time on ML and figuring out how to actually put LLMs to work on real business problems. Before this, I worked at Infinite Reality, building for the spatial web - things like Volumetric videos (streaming GLB animations on demand) and engine-level work. Also, big Harry Potter fan. If you're curious about any of this, or just wanna chat, say hi.
A recruiter reached out with a remote offer for a YC-backed startup. What I found in the assignment sent me down a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected.
An exploration of why our feeds are filled with formulaic, AI-generated content that lacks the soul of human creation.
Needed a dead-simple way to shrink videos for Discord or faster uploads, so I built Reducio. It's an offline app to compress or mute videos without the command line or sketchy websites. Here’s how it came to be.
How a curious Upwork request led me to build a local chess game analysis tool using Python and Stockfish.
