CS @ BITS Pilani · Builder · Researcher

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Sourabh Kumar Soni
Yes, that's me.01

I turn half-serious “what ifs” into real software — usually with AI, occasionally with robots, and always with too many browser tabs.

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Built inPilani29.9° N / 75.6° E
ON-DEVICE AISWIFT1900 CODEFORCES @ 14H100 PIPELINESREINFORCEMENT LEARNINGON-DEVICE AISWIFT1900 CODEFORCES @ 14H100 PIPELINESREINFORCEMENT LEARNING

I don't collect titles.
I collect hard problems.

First-year Computer Science student at BITS Pilani. Started building Python games in grade six, hit 1900 on Codeforces at fourteen, then wandered into machine learning, product, systems, and native macOS engineering.

The thread through all of it: learn fast, ship the thing, then make the ugly edge cases behave.

PRIVATE. LOCAL. ACTUALLY USEFUL.

Air
Scribe.

Hold Control. Speak. Release. Polished text appears wherever your cursor is — with no account, no server, and no audio uploads.

AIRSCRIBE / LIVELOCAL ●
POSTCHATEMAILGENERAL

“make this sound less like it was written at 3am”

POLISHED OUTPUT0.84s

Make this clearer, sharper, and ready to publish.

HOLD TO TALK

700MBverified model
0audio uploads
A/

Two engines. No dead time.

A custom on-device speech model with automatic Apple Speech failover while the resumable, SHA-256-verified model downloads.

B/

The LLM doesn't get the last word.

A diff-based validation layer rejects rewrites or translations that lose names, numbers, or meaning. Fidelity wins over flair.

C/

Four modes. Any text field.

Post, chat, email, and general modes; per-app rules; local history; meetings; and context-aware cleanup — wrapped in a native macOS menu-bar app.

SHIP NOTE / JUL 24, 2026

“this whole post was written using AirScribe.”

25 reactions7 commentsMIT licensed

Selected
chaos

Products, models, agents, and robots. Different surfaces. Same urge to make the idea real.

02A

CONSUMER AI / SHIPPED

GiftSenseAI

A gift recommendation product powered by Gemini — validated by people who actually paid for it.

GeminiProductGrowth
1.8Kcustomers300 paying $5/mo
02B

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Othello agent

Behavioral cloning from expert games, then reinforcement learning until random agents stopped being interesting.

PyTorchCUDANumPy
99%win rate
02C

MARKET DATA / MACHINE LEARNING

Quadeye challenge

Built a prediction pipeline for an anonymized market variable and climbed near the top of a very crowded leaderboard.

MLTime seriesFeature engineering
RANK18/ 3,390 submissions
02D

COMPUTER VISION / EDGE AI

Pest detection, but portable.

Fine-tuned three generations of YOLO on the IP102 benchmark, then exported to ONNX for cross-platform deployment.

YOLOv8–10IP102ONNX

Currently
in the lab.

2026

NYU Stern School of Business

Machine Learning Research Assistant

Pricing research, web-scale data pipelines, BERT and modern embedding models running on H100 GPUs.

2026

Prahlada OpenAI Research

Founding member · SystemML

Tinygrad, vLLM, AMD ROCm, smaller Docker images, and the stubborn problem of laptop-cluster inference.

2026

Kalipatnapu AR & VR Lab

AI Researcher

Gaze and head-pose models for ADHD screening; hyper-realistic shadow generation; TFLite and ONNX optimization.

2026

Team Robocon

Robotics & AI Engineer

Built and trained in-house robots, shipped edge vision models, and helped run RoboWars.

515All India Rank
JEE Main
1900Codeforces rating
at age 14
99%CBSE class 12
score
2.5K+LinkedIn
followers
8.86BITS Pilani
CGPA
Top 1%NSEC · NSEP
ATF nationwide

Also: JEE Advanced AIR 2803, IOQM qualified, Aryabhata Ganit Challenge winner, STSE rank 2.

THE TOOLBOX, CURRENTLY

PYTHON+SWIFT+PYTORCH+REACT+C+++ONNX+LLMs+ROCm+SQL+COMPUTER VISION