# work — things i've built, written, and done

> 19 entries on [tetraslam.world/work](https://tetraslam.world/work)

## Experience

### eng intern @ natural.co


building agentic payments
- **Date**: jan 2026 — march 2026
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/89ca89fe-52be-42e5-81ac-611f91878c83)
- **Tags**: python, go, typescript, postgres
- **Type**: job

### ml researcher @ mit media lab


fine-tuned open source llms to act as personal proxies
- **Date**: jan 2025 — present
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/735771f6-5910-4754-aded-9cc4ad6c28d2)
- **Tags**: pytorch, huggingface transformers, trl
- **Type**: job

### ml engineering intern @ mosaic (yc w25)


built ai video editing agents. went 0-to-1 on the developer api, docs, mcp server, video processing systems.
- **Date**: april 2025 — aug 2025
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/a93245dc-3e35-41f8-960f-8b744f8e222a)
- **Tags**: python, aws, langgraph, ffmpeg, remotion
- **Type**: job

## Projects

### re:zero


building an agentic pentesting platform.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/1aff0bd5-f13f-4c9d-a8c1-8655449fe93e)
- [rezero.sh](https://rezero.sh)
- **Tags**: agents, cybersecurity, ml
- **Type**: project

### SHFLA


turing-complete two-way visualizer (shoegaze rock/any music <-> fractals) using the julia set and audio analysis. won the mit media lab hackathon, hit the front page of hacker news, and got to demo to stephen wolfram, manolis kellis, joscha bach, and at the suno office.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/1e28d753-d4ee-4cb3-9cdf-a7269ffb4ee4)
- [github (has demo video :D)](https://github.com/tetraslam/shfla)
- **Tags**: python, fractals, librosa, pygame, opengl
- **Type**: project

### kpop dance formation generator


create dance formation guides from a choreography video using computer vision. 2nd place @ boston hacks.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/edd6edc4-5902-4d7a-95df-53b0fc678f50)
- [github](https://github.com/tetraslam/kada)
- [demo](https://devpost.com/software/kada-kpop-advanced-dance-analyzer)
- **Tags**: yolov8, deepface, typescript, threejs
- **Type**: project

### robocup


national winner, captain of the indian team, international finalist against 50+ countries. zero funding taken.
- **Date**: 2023
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/b9e65b02-1e83-4fc6-9937-2516e23d1435)
- **Tags**: ros, micropython, raspberry pi, arduino, pytorch
- **Type**: project

### onemonth.dev


learn anything in 30 days. nov 2025 update: $2700 MRR.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/493b259b-c478-4970-8bab-ad8f3aff7fb4)
- [website](https://onemonth.dev)
- **Tags**: python, fastapi, langgraph, vite, shadcn, perplexity, firecrawl, gemini
- **Type**: project

### manimtired


generate educational videos in the style of 3blue1brown using his framework manim :) won dorm hackathon
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/291288b6-14f5-4076-8644-4638ab9b0e5e)
- [github](https://github.com/tetraslam/manimtired)
- [youtube demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJ02Z1lQR0)
- **Tags**: python, manim
- **Type**: project

### roami


ai roadtrip companion. built for hackbeanpot 2025. you can play geoguessr, get location-specific music recs, customized tours, travel challenges, etc.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/22a8c64e-d4a1-4137-ba0f-ae2efe6afd3a)
- [demo](https://devpost.com/software/roami)
- **Type**: project

### perry the platypus!?


make secret agent profiles of your pets. joke project to try moondream; moondream team saw the project on twitter! :)
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/0bd42a58-0057-4df4-af2e-b7f3ee01561a)
- [website](https://perry-the-platypus.vercel.app/)
- [github](https://github.com/tetraslam/perry-the-platypus)
- **Tags**: nextjs, moondream
- **Type**: project

### algorithmically generating glyphs


qurwenyan glyph generation (for my fantasy conlang)
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/378f1c02-851d-4d3c-93b0-af695a9d5ebe)
- [blog post](https://tetraslam.beehiiv.com/p/generating-glyphs)
- [github](https://github.com/tetraslam/qurwenyan)
- **Tags**: python
- **Type**: project

### paperchase


turn research papers into startups. won AWS MCP hackathon.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/ec52a2c5-6b69-4802-951b-09399c171b6f)
- [github](https://github.com/tetraslam/paperchase)
- **Type**: project

### prosperousss


1st place @ finhacks 2024. financial digital twin for governments, banks, and marketers to use to understand financial characteristics and health of extremely specific demographics for pricing and policy decisions.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/70882c9b-87c8-40bf-b719-508abdd3933b)
- [github](https://github.com/tetraslam/finhacks)
- **Tags**: typescript, openai, perplexity
- **Type**: project

### pocket realms! :D


I'm a major worldbuilder, and I've been working on a fictional research paper about Zindabuul's magic system. This is the first draft of the paper, and I'm currently refining the system.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/df5d5f68-c454-4a04-b488-2c63e37f4ef0)
- [pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_xQOQ5ATMjw_hJuhjTZ1qr1r9nN1WTiH/view?usp=sharing)
- **Tags**: worldbuilding :O, LaTeX, nano banana pro
- **Type**: project

### fiberfinder


finalist in the blue ocean student entrepreneurship competition
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/ff955bd1-42c4-4a11-9373-e7aa04da43a4)
- [demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPewmG49Eic)
- **Tags**: python, opencv, react native
- **Type**: project

## Talks

### A Turing-Complete Fractal-Musical Language | Shresht Bhowmick & Arnav Dave @ MIT Media Lab


demo of [SHFLA](https://github.com/tetraslam/shfla), my turing-complete shoegaze rock & fractal language which won the mit media lab hackathon.
- **Date**: nov 2024
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/89f62fdb-631f-4f31-b000-4c7f82468920)
- [talk](https://youtu.be/L5FGr2gRYZ8)
- **Type**: talk

## Other

### sapientia research


applied math and emergent technology research lab. accepted into the [sixth international conference on the mathematics of neuroscience and ai](https://www.algopreneurship.org/nm2025), as well as [the residency](https://livetheresidency.com).
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/8f5b20c8-d6c9-4d3c-9979-18f13f6273d1)
- **Type**: other

### tetracorp


boutique engineering firm building agents, ai infra, and hardware, and training specialized models for startups and enterprises that need them.
- **Image**: ![image](https://valuable-mandrill-918.convex.cloud/api/storage/3a3811b8-5a50-42b2-b5ad-3e78958477c1)
- [website](https://tetracorp.dev)
- **Type**: other