I am Bhargavaram Krishnapur, founder of The Pulse Engine, building local-first open-source software: tools that run on your own machine, keep your data there, and do not ask for a subscription.
The paper titles and the real work are recorded apart.
Where I have worked and what I have run, most recent first. The title is what was on the paperwork. The line under it is what I actually did.
each bar is the term, laid on one axis · 2023—2026
Mumbai · hybrid
An open-source developer community built on one principle: software runs on your machine, your data stays on your machine, and your tools belong to you. Shipped the first project on day one. MIT licensed, free forever. Growing a contributor base through LinkedIn, Discord and daily GitHub activity.
Karjat · on-site
Co-host one of the university's official podcast series in a three-host rotation. Curate episode topics and build structured conversation outlines, research and reach out to guests across students, faculty and professionals, and moderate episodes for clear discussion flow and audience engagement. Also handle guest prep, interview framing and episode planning.
Mumbai · remote · freelance
A Udyam-registered micro-consultancy helping entrepreneurs validate business ideas before they sink months into them. Structured consultations and targeted research end in an honest, data-driven call to pursue, pivot or pause. Covers feasibility analysis, market and competitor research, strategic SWOT, financial forecasting and differentiation planning.
Karjat · on-site
Sponsorship lead for the university's entrepreneurship cell. Raised ₹2L+ for Elevate 2.0, our flagship event, by building the prospect list, writing the pitch and running the conversations to close. Also worked on the roadmap planning that carried the team through to the finals of IIT Bombay's E-Summit.
Navi Mumbai · on-site
Company-side lead on the firm's ERP digitisation, owning QA, billing, documentation and marketing, and delivered a recommended ERP selected after direct vendor evaluation. Designed a tap-first billing model for square-foot electrical contracts (area × rate as a fixed cap, auto-distributed across stages), logged 50+ bugs and security issues as actionable tickets for a non-technical manager, ran field assessments across three active sites, and migrated tender handling to a fully digital workflow. Also authored a practical guide to square-foot contracting and Indian compliance (RA bills, Ind AS 115, MSMED Act, GST SAC 9954).
internship
Led end-to-end sponsorship acquisition for a company-hosted event, from prospect research through partner onboarding. Identified and evaluated brands and individuals able to sponsor or add strategic value, prepared pitch materials and partner briefs, and coordinated sponsor communications, timelines and deliverables through to execution.
Mumbai
Advanced and closed early-stage engagements, and built a central deal-tracker consolidating pipeline status, next actions and owners, which cut duplicate follow-ups. Standardised outreach and deal-ops with lightweight playbooks and handoff templates, sourced and qualified 30+ startups, added 250+ relevant connections, and managed legal document workflows (term sheets, NDAs, data requests) for cleaner closings. Also assembled the pitch deck leadership used at a hackathon.
Mumbai · on-site
Co-ran operations for the Mumbai division of a charity run, leading 80 volunteers to the start line on a one-month timeline. Ran 100+ CSR outreaches that brought in ₹20L+ of sponsorship, and owned execution end to end: volunteer allocation, vendor and ground logistics, and day-of coordination across the course.
Mumbai · remote
Tailored resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles for clients across career stages, with ATS optimisation to get them past the filters. Helped 50+ clients land interviews.
Mumbai · on-site
Co-created an education pipeline for Grades 1–5 for children in Mumbai slum communities. Ran field research across Deonar, Gautam Nagar and Bhim Nagar, collecting 50+ student interest profiles, wrote psychology-based interaction guidelines for future volunteers and teacher guidelines for low-literacy classrooms, and presented the final proposals to DBM's leadership for phased rollout.
The same service, set on one sheet and fit to print.
↓ download the writThese lands were charted by the source, not by hand.
Public repositories, mine and The Pulse Engine's. Everything here is open source, and most of it started as something I needed and could not find. The figures in the ledger come from the GitHub API, not from me typing them in.
A daily correlation scan across news, markets, and government data that shows its findings next to what pure noise produces. Zero servers, full audit trail in git.
An explainable market analysis system that combines technical indicators and news sentiment to generate clear buy/sell signals with reasoning through an interactive dashboard
Read the charter of Pulse-Engine_Market_Intelligence_Platform →
A privacy-first web app that helps you find and erase your digital footprint across public websites. Python, Flask and HTML, fully automated and open source.
A UX research study of campus visitor entry at Vijaybhoomi University. A visiting parent waited over an hour in the rain because the approval step has no owner, no time bound, and no failure path. Interviews, card sorts, tree tests, and the information architecture that came out of them.
A homebrew pseudo-browser for Windows. Hardened Microsoft Edge with fail-closed startup, firewall-scoped LAN blocking, download quarantine and disposable sessions. Verifies what it can enforce, and says NOT ENFORCEABLE when it cannot.
An AlphaZero-style chess engine in Python: PUCT tree search guided by a policy and value network that learns entirely from self-play. The whole pipeline is here, self-play to replay data to training loop to checkpoints, and it plays from the command line.
Self-improving NCAA basketball predictor - auto-fetches ESPN data, trains 6 models, eliminates data leakage, and runs a full analytics dashboard. No API key needed.
Quantum Neural Horror is an interactive neuro-evolution sandbox where a neural network mutates its own topology, activation functions, and weights while you watch. Using simulated annealing and evolutionary operators instead of backpropagation, it explores and adapts in real time, with a live visualization of its changing fitness, and complexity
A small Python tool to obfuscate images against automated scraping and basic ML analysis. Adds controlled perturbation, so the picture still reads to a person and reads worse to a model. GUI and CLI, Windows builds in releases.
A desktop app that opens a random public repository, or a random good first issue, one click at a time. For finding something to contribute to when the search box wants a query you do not have. Tkinter and the GitHub REST API, no hardcoded list.
The infinite monkey theorem run rather than quoted: a process per core hammering out random strings until one matches the target exactly, with a live attempt rate so you can watch the odds refuse to move. Standard library only.
Deliberately terrible code, written on purpose and annotated with what it costs. Each entry carries the complexity analysis and the correct version beside it, so the anti-pattern is an argument for the rule rather than a list to memorise.
A meme gallery that refills itself. A GitHub Actions cron pulls five fresh images every morning, rebuilds the page and redeploys it. No server, no database, and nothing to keep paying for.
Your browser, finally organised. A local-only Chrome extension that groups sites into stacks, tracks usage, and shows what you're paying for but not opening.
An Android payment app experiment in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, built around offline-capable payment flows. Chooses between payment rails (USSD, binary SMS) by carrier and signal so a payment can still complete when the best path is unavailable. Open to contributors.
The register of holdings, every repository at one address →
The chronicles, longer pieces about how this work was built →
These plates were kept, not composed.
Photographs I took. No theme and no series, just the ones I kept. Drop a file into assets/photos and it appears here on the next build.
This one province alone is written by a living hand.
I am a computer science engineering student at Vijaybhoomi University, class of 2028, and I build things because I want them to exist. Mostly that means local-first software: tools that run on your own machine, keep your data there, and do not ask for a subscription.
PulseEngine is the open-source community I started around that idea. Everything under it is MIT licensed and runs without paid infrastructure, usually on GitHub Actions and a free API tier. Before that I wrote a transformer from scratch, character tokenizer through BPE and RoPE, mostly to find out whether I understood the internals or only the diagrams.
Away from the terminal: Soulsborne games, Sanskrit and Buddhist terminology, a Samoyed, and running at hours no reasonable person keeps.
– Bhargavaram Krishnapur
About Bhargavaram Krishnapur: skills, education and interests →
Only the roads here actually reach the author.
Ways to reach me. Email is fastest. I read everything and answer most of it within a few days.