# Atharva

I'm 22, a curious engineer who builds software and ML systems and spends most of my time in open source, working toward more inclusive AI. Away from the terminal, my intellectual roots run through Advaita Vedanta and Indian philosophy.

## Work

### May 2025 – present · Rimo · Software Engineer

Software engineer at Rimo, mostly working on AI features across the product. A lot of that has been knowledge agent tooling, outgoing webhooks for agent actions, and meeting group flows tied to AI prep and generation. Also spend time on RAG cost tracking, template dispatch, and how summaries get generated.

### Summer 2025 · Google Summer of Code · workflows4s

Contributor for Google Summer of Code 2025 with workflows4s, a Scala workflow library. Worked on a UI and Tapir API for browsing workflow definitions and instances, plus client-side Mermaid diagrams to show execution progress. Also helped package the app with Docker and a small GitHub Actions deploy to Fly.io.

### Summer 2024 · LFX Mentorship · Zowe

Mentee with the Linux Foundation's LFX program through Open Mainframe Project, contributing to Zowe. Started around the App Store, then spent most of the summer on server stability and making the local dev setup easier for new contributors. Documented setup issues, improved README instructions, and helped debug TypeScript runtime errors in the app server.

### 2022 – 2026 · IIITDM Jabalpur · B.Tech, Computer Science

Studying computer science at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur. Co-authored an IEEE paper on Cognitive Agriculture, a Web-GIS framework for crop recommendation and plant disease detection using machine learning. A lot of my learning outside coursework has been through open source, research projects, and internships.

## Contributions

Code in the open. 8,532 contributions in the last year and 579+ merged pull requests to community and open-source projects (such as NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard, SakanaAI/ShinkaEvolve, mozilla-ai/any-llm, and agentclash). Live interactive contribution graph and paginated PRs at https://www.atharvakanherkar.com and via APIs (https://www.atharvakanherkar.com/api/github/contributions, https://www.atharvakanherkar.com/api/github/prs).

## Projects

Stupid, curious engineer. I build things because they seem worth building. Sometimes they aren't, and that's just how it goes. For everything else, see [GitHub](https://github.com/Atharva-Kanherkar).

### AgentClash

Open-source eval platform for AI agents. Same workload, captured evidence, scorecards, and CI regression gates.

[GitHub](https://github.com/agentclash/agentclash) · [Live](https://www.agentclash.dev)

### learnframe

YouTube-first learning toolkit that turns public videos into local courses with transcripts and timestamp-cited Q&A.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Atharva-Kanherkar/learnframe)

### chalkboard

Turns a prompt into a narrated whiteboard explainer video. Self-hostable, MIT, works with local models.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Atharva-Kanherkar/chalkboard)

### agentic-memory

Cognitive memory for AI agents with separate semantic, episodic, and procedural stores.

[GitHub](https://github.com/agentclash/agentic-memory) · [Live](https://memory.agentclash.dev)

### datasmith

Provider-agnostic SDK and CLI for building targeted synthetic training and eval datasets — web-grounded seed construction feeding a weak-vs-strong generation loop, with OpenTelemetry trace ingestion.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Atharva-Kanherkar/datasmith)

### AnimeVocab

Learn Japanese from anime — romaji-first Chrome extension, spaced repetition, Listening Mode, Manga Studio, and cloud sync. Free and open source.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Atharva-Kanherkar/anime-vocab-coach) · [Live](https://animevocab.com)

### e2b-go

Unofficial Go SDK for E2B sandboxes.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Atharva-Kanherkar/e2b-go)