38.8° N · Engineering Leader · Applied AI & ML

Hey, I'm
Hanish.

By day I run an applied ML Engineering team — pipelines, models, inference systems, the whole stack. By night I'm usually cooking something, reading about how cities were designed, or building something with AI just to see what happens.

I started this site because I wanted a place to share how I actually think, not LinkedIn-polished takes, but the messy, curious middle of figuring things out. Some of that is about AI and applied ML. Some of it is about mountains. Turns out the instincts aren't that different.

Aug 2026 Building Pitwall Systems Apr 2026 A Field Guide to AI Orchestrators Systems Apr 2026 The case against print Systems Mar 2026 One day, today. Reflecting on Kilimanjaro Summit Oct 2025 Stop Chasing AI Use Cases Systems
01 Tabit

Splitwise went paid. Tab has great OCR but rough UX. So I'm building the thing I actually want to use.

FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Expo, React Native, Poetry
02 Movie Recommender

A movie discovery app I built because my fiancée and I couldn't stop arguing about what to watch.

FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, pgvector, BERT, Redis, Vite, TypeScript
03 Pitwall

A live telemetry dashboard and lap analysis tool for F1 26, built because the in-game HUD wasn't cutting it and I wan...

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, PyArrow/Parquet, WebSockets, React, TypeScript, Claude API
04 Scentry

I've been the silent triager for my team long enough to recognize a pattern: the first ten minutes of every incident ...

FastAPI, LangGraph, OpenAI, Slack SDK, Databricks SQL, Confluence