RoleSoftware & AI Engineer
Based inAhmedabad, IN · --:--:-- IST
Currently SWE Intern @ Curriculo

Neal Daftary, Software & AI Engineer

I build AI products end to end, from the model to the Kubernetes cluster, and fix the open-source libraries they run on.
1377GitHub contributions
14PRs merged upstream
6orgs contributed to
74public repositories
(00)About
A nerdy octopus in glasses typing code on a laptop at a late-night desk
fig. 1: neal (artist's impression), probably fixing a bug

Hey, I'm Neal

I'm a third-year computer science (AI & ML) student in Ahmedabad. Most of my evenings disappear into side projects, half-finished experiments, and reading other people's code just to see how it actually works.

I love the small, satisfying moments in software: a red test turning green, a weird bug finally making sense, a model leaving the notebook and quietly helping someone. When a tool I use breaks, sending a tiny fix back to it is my favourite kind of thank-you.

Right now I'm learning Rust and thinking way too much about how LLMs remember things. I also just wrapped up a year as chair of the ACM student chapter at my university, which was a lot of fun.

~/neal/about.ts
1// about.ts: the honest version
2const neal = {
3  home: "Ahmedabad, IN",
4  studying: "CSE (AI & ML) @ Nirma",
5  dayJob: "SWE intern @ Curriculo",
6  learning: ["Rust", "JAX"],
7  githubBio: "Fixing bugs!!!",
8  openTo: ["side quests", "nerdy chats"],
9};

Things I nerd out about

  • computer vision
  • how LLMs remember
  • open source
  • Rust
  • MLOps
  • dev tools
  • tiny CLIs
(01)Selected work

Things I've shipped.

A few favourites I'm proud of. Everything else (side projects, hackathons and experiments) lives in the index below.
Full-Stack · 2026↗

Minutes

AI meeting notes delivered 9–28 s after the call ends, at $0 AI cost.

$0
monthly AI + infra cost
TypeScriptReactExpressSQLiteGroq Whisper
Machine Learning · 2026↗

HelioOps

Turns solar storms into cited, machine-verified advisories for critical industries

29h
storm warning lead time
PythonFastAPIOpenCV
Dev Tools · 2026↗

mcptail

Passive wiretap, token attribution and replay for MCP servers, one command

1
command to wiretap every MCP server
TypeScriptNode.jsModel Context Protocol
Research · 2026↗

MemoryLens

Open-source benchmark measuring how LLM memory architectures forget over long chats

1/21
the tokens at 100% recall
PythonFAISSFastAPIStreamlitPlotly
Systems · 2026↗

Noonshift

Deadline-aware EV charging that shifts load into clean, cheap grid hours

−69%
CO₂ on 36 real charging sessions
PythonFastAPISciPy/HiGHS
Machine Learning · 2026↗
★ Winner · HACKaMINeD 2026

LUMIN.AI

Solar-plant inverter risk monitoring with explainable ML and GenAI operator guidance

0%
hallucination across 27 ablations
PythonXGBoostOptuna
Computer Vision · 2026↗
★ National Rank 4 · Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2026

SpectraScan

Industrial paint-defect vision system: DINOv2 segmentation wired to a PLC.

#4
nationally, factory automation
PythonPyTorchDINOv2
Computer Vision · 2026↗

Decompose-and-Verify Fashion Retrieval

Compositional fashion search that verifies color-garment binding CLIP gets wrong

~200ms
per query on CPU
PythonSigLIPSmolVLM

The full index(38)

(02)Open source

Merged upstream.

I read other people's code for fun, then fix it. Public PRs into repos with a combined 276k★, reviewed and merged by their maintainers.
14PRs merged
6Repos merged into
6Organisations
276k★Stars of repos merged into
Google DeepMind5 PRs

JAX Privacy

Migrated 9 modules off chex to optax.ArrayTree / jax.typing, raised the jax/jaxlib floor, and fixed CI type-checks and docs.

#301#304#316#321#333
Google DeepMind1 PR

TORAX

Rebuilt the Plotly animation slider: 2.5× faster render and a 76% smaller payload, closing an issue open since 2024.

#2318
Hugging Face2 PRs

Transformers

Fixed an ImportError that broke model exporters on torch < 2.8 in a 150k★ repo.

#47710#47711
OpenCV4 PRs

OpenCV

Made 4 functions (SIFT, inpaint, matchTemplate, findTransformECC) accept boolean masks by relaxing outdated type checks.

#29676#29677#29679#29681
Anthropic2 PRs

Claude Code Action

Restored tool-result text dropped from job summaries and fixed bot-actor comment filters.

#1616#1619
Cloudflare1 PR

workers-sdk

Stopped a crash on malformed SSH config values with proper validation and clear errors.

#15088

The journey

Every merged pull request, live from GitHub.

  1. google-parfait200★5
  2. OpenCV91k★4
  3. Anthropic9.8k★2
  4. Hugging Face169k★1
  5. Cloudflare4.7k★1
  6. Google DeepMind750★1

PRs merged

  1. August 20269 merged
  2. July 20265 merged
(03)GitHub activity

Commit history.

Pulled straight from github.com/Neal006 and refreshed every few hours. From one contribution in 2024 to over a thousand this year.
1217
contributions in 2026
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Commits
698
Pull requests
74
Issues
82
Repos created
64
Private
295
LessMore
1,377
Lifetime contributions
16d
Longest streak
May 30 → Jun 14
2d
Current streak
80
Best day
Jul 6, 2026
185
Active days
24
25
26
Year over year
Languages across public repos
  • Python54.5%
  • TypeScript29.4%
  • HTML5.7%
  • JavaScript4.8%
  • CSS2.9%
  • HCL0.8%
  • Jupyter Notebook0.6%
  • Other1.3%

Synced Nov 7, 2026 · live GitHub GraphQL · private contributions are counted, never shown

(04)Experience

Where I've worked.

Three remote internships, one theme: own the thing end to end and leave it faster, safer and in production.
  1. Aug 2026 – PresentRemote Now
    Curriculo

    Software Engineering Intern

    • Built real-time notifications that merge 5 event sources into a single SQL query.
    • Translated job pages into 200 locales via NLLB + caching, cutting 30–60 DB lookups per page to 1.
    • Shipped the curriculo.me redesign in 8 languages on Cloudflare Pages, preserving SEO with 12 URL redirects.
    • Deployed to AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) through CI/CD and closed a cross-tenant data leak in the Gmail integration.
    NestJSPostgreSQLNext.jsAWSCloudflareNLLB
  2. Oct 2025 – Dec 2025Remote
    MZHubtech

    Software Engineering Intern

    • Deployed a Next.js 14 SSR app on Azure App Service via GitHub Actions CI/CD.
    • Wired the frontend to Azure Cosmos DB and SendGrid SMTP for serverless contact automation.
    Next.jsAzureCosmos DBSendGridGitHub Actions
  3. Jun 2025 – Sep 2025Remote
    8xSports

    AI Engineering Intern

    • Built a visual search engine that finds similar jerseys across a 15,000+ image catalogue.
    • Cropped jerseys with YOLOv8 and matched DINO feature vectors, GPU-accelerated with CUDA.
    • Earned a Letter of Recommendation for high-impact execution.
    YOLOv8DINOv2FAISSCUDAPyTorchLetter of Recommendation ↗
(05)Research & recognition

Proof, not promises.

Publication · SCI Q3 · IF 2.2 · Jan 2026
IEEE Sensors Letters
↗

CatBoost Anomaly Detection in Robotic Arms

A CatBoost anomaly detector for industrial robotic-arm faults, outperforming SVM, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes and QDA baselines.

Accuracy
97.20%
F1-score
0.9718
Baselines beaten
4
  1. 01
    Winner, Aubergine Track
    HACKaMINeD National Hackathon 2026
    Top 5 nationally among 2,300+ participants
  2. 02
    National Rank 4
    Mitsubishi Electric Cup, 6th Edition (2026)
    National-level factory automation competition
  3. 03
    Published author
    IEEE Sensors Letters (2026)
    CatBoost anomaly detection in robotic arms
  4. 04
    Letter of Recommendation
    8xSports (2025)
    For high-impact computer vision work
Leadership · Sep 2025 – Oct 2026
Student Chairperson
Nirma University ACM Student Chapter

Led a 150+ member tech community; launched Prompt to Prototype, a one-day AI build challenge, and mentorship tracks.

Education · 2024 – 2028
Nirma University
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (AI & ML)

CGPA 7.7 (through 4th semester) · Ahmedabad, India

The toolkit

Languages

Python / TypeScript / JavaScript / C++ / SQL / Rust (learning)

Full Stack

Next.js / NestJS / React / Prisma / PostgreSQL / TanStack Query / Redis / BullMQ / FastAPI / Node.js / WebSocket / REST / SSE

AI / ML

PyTorch / scikit-learn / Hugging Face / OpenCV / ONNX / TensorRT / Optuna / LangChain / LangGraph / LangSmith / AgentScope / ChromaDB / FAISS / MLflow

Cloud & Ops

AWS (EKS, ECS, S3, CloudFront, RDS) / Azure / Docker / Kubernetes / Terraform / Argo CD / GitHub Actions / Prometheus / Grafana / DVC / Airflow

Practice

Computer Vision / RAG / Agentic AI / MLOps / Generative AI / Prompt Engineering

(06)Contact

Let's build
something real.

Internships, open-source collabs, or a hard problem you want shipped? My inbox is open and I reply fast.