Pratik Pakhale
Most of what I build starts as me fixing my own problem
The last couple of years I've been building products at places working on problems I find interesting.
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Work
Dec 2024 — present
Founding Engineer
Raccoon AI
●Shipped Elemetry, a cache engine that stores browser actions in an in-memory vector graph database, leveraging browsing history to accelerate repetitive tasks
●Designed dual-model (ephemeral events vs. persisted blocks) real-time streaming pipeline for frontend rendering of realtime agentic work
●Built a text-to-video motion-graphics system with a React rendering engine, director's-board approval flow, parallelized frame-by-frame export on serverless GPUs, and a full audio toolkit
●Also shipped canvas editor, raccoon-inspector, worked heavily on chat app's state management and performance
Jul 2023 — Dec 2024
Research Intern
IIT Bombay · EdTech Research
●Built adaptive learning system with video bots for student engagement
●Implemented feedback platform — React, Express, Flask running deep learning model
●Shipped as Docker container and Electron app for offline use
●Lead backend developer on GeoGuru — LMS with geographical information system
Along the way, I build for communities I'm part of.
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Open source & volunteering
Mentoring a GSoC project on LLM-assisted extraction of agronomic and ecological experiments into structured data.
Integrated JSON schema parser into FieldActivity R Shiny app. Reworked data structures for complex management scenarios.
Added cmux.json support for custom commands.
On my own time, I build tools I wish existed — some to learn, some to scratch an itch, some just for fun.
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Projects
sitedrop2026
vibecodedNetlify Drop, but personal. My agents deploy quick static sites to it all day
vibecodedBrowse multiple UI component registries in one place. Auto updated from ShadCN registry
pakhale2026
clinpx pakhale setup agents — keeps my coding agents (Claude Code, opencode) configured identically on every machine, from one command
Velocity Events2022
mernEvent management platform for college clubs — registration to ticketing. 125k+ API calls and counting.
uhmegle
funOmegle MITM — proxy that lets you spy on what two random strangers are talking about. "For education".
Sometimes those tools are things I can hold.
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Hardware & builds
RC Car
Remote-controlled car — motors, circuits, and way too much soldering.
Light Controller
Room's LED light controller :)
Raspberry Pi 500
My dev box and that controls my hermes agents, automations and everything around me.
Hoodie Pen Stand
3D-printed Nike hoodie pen stand. Not my design, but I like it a lot :))
Some Research,
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Research
Smruti Patil, Pratik Pakhale, Ashish Gidijala, Chinmay Shewale, Shashwat Chandel, Utkarsh Mahadeo Khaire. Socio-Nomadic Learning Optimization. ICAMS 2025, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, pp. 73–83.
Animesh Chaturvedi, VK Vivekraj, Pratik Pakhale, Karthik Avinash. Vedalytics: Concepts as Knowledge from Rules of the Ancient Indian Scriptures. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), pp. 6967–6976.
Outside the editor,
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Side quests
President — Velocity ClubWeb & App Development Club, IIIT Dharwad
Postman Global HackathonWinner
Postman Student LeaderStudent Leader at Postman
Hack2FutureWon the first pan-India hackathon at IIIT Dharwad
Buildspace N&WCampus Representative, Nights & Weekends