Hello, I'm Pratik Rai I make AI agents that run on your machine, not in someone else’s cloud.

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I split my time between understanding how agents actually reason and shipping systems that run without calling home .

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Fig. 1 · The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787

Sentenced for corrupting the youth of Athens, Socrates chose the hemlock over exile — reaching for the cup while still mid-argument. The thinker’s last lesson: the examined life, kept to the very end.

Experience

Junior Software Developer

DIMO — Roro Birds & Zebra Swap · Full-time

Apr 2025 – Oct 2025

Web3 automotive data platform building NFT tournaments, L2 validation, and a cross-chain DEX aggregator.

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Here's what I have been engineering.

Most of engineering is deciding what you are willing to lose.

NeoSwarm

LOCAL MULTI-AGENT ORCHESTRATOR

A cross-platform, locally running AI-agent orchestrator. A team-lead agent decomposes a mission and delegates to parallel worker agents, backed by a native Python agent loop and a unified provider registry. Ships with a React/Tauri desktop app, a Textual terminal UI, and a Python CLI, and runs on local Ollama models or configured cloud providers.

PythonFastAPIReactTypeScriptTauri+2

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Evo2 Variant Analysis

DESCI · BNB CHAIN

A genomic variant analysis platform built on Google’s Evo 2 model, trained on 9.3T nucleotides. Genome NFTs, DAO voting, and a research data marketplace are implemented in BNB Chain contracts, with Modal serverless GPU inference handling the analysis pipeline. BNB Hack Kerala (DeSci Track) winner.

Next.jsFastAPISolidityModalBSC Testnet+1

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Varq

NATIVE MACOS E-READER

A warm, native, open-source e-reader for macOS supporting EPUB, PDF, and CBZ. Books, progress, highlights, and notes stay on the machine by default, built with SwiftUI and SwiftData.

SwiftSwiftUISwiftDatamacOSEPUB+1

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My stack

TypeScriptLanguage JavaScriptLanguage PythonAI pipelines RustSystems C++Language GoSystems SwiftmacOS · SwiftUI SoliditySmart contracts ReactUI library React NativeMobile Next.jsWeb apps Node.jsServices ExpressServices FastAPIAPIs TauriDesktop apps OllamaLocal models Solanax402 rail DockerContainers LinuxArch · daily driver ArduinoIoT · ESP32 LangGraphAgents MCPAgent tooling PostgreSQLDatabase RedisCache & queues OpenSearchVector search awsAWSCloud CloudflareEdge GitHub ActionsCI/CD llmLLMsOpenAI · Anthropic · Gemini TypeScriptLanguage JavaScriptLanguage PythonAI pipelines RustSystems C++Language GoSystems SwiftmacOS · SwiftUI SoliditySmart contracts ReactUI library React NativeMobile Next.jsWeb apps Node.jsServices ExpressServices FastAPIAPIs TauriDesktop apps OllamaLocal models Solanax402 rail DockerContainers LinuxArch · daily driver ArduinoIoT · ESP32 LangGraphAgents MCPAgent tooling PostgreSQLDatabase RedisCache & queues OpenSearchVector search awsAWSCloud CloudflareEdge GitHub ActionsCI/CD llmLLMsOpenAI · Anthropic · Gemini

Writing

Here's what I have been figuring out..

Writing it down is how I find out whether I actually understood it.

EngineeringOct 3, 2026 · 10 min

Why merging local agents is harder than running them in parallel

Notes from building NeoSwarm: task contracts, bounded retries, provider boundaries, and the difficulty of turning several worker outputs into one useful result.

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Opinion2025 · 3 min

Why India’s biggest hackathon is broken: the SIH Illusion

What actually decides the outcome at Smart India Hackathon, and why the scoring rewards presentation over engineering.

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EngineeringOct 3, 2026 · 10 min

Why merging local agents is harder than running them in parallel

Notes from building NeoSwarm: task contracts, bounded retries, provider boundaries, and the difficulty of turning several worker outputs into one useful result.

Read this

Opinion2025 · 3 min

Why India’s biggest hackathon is broken: the SIH Illusion

What actually decides the outcome at Smart India Hackathon, and why the scoring rewards presentation over engineering.

Read this

Opinion2025 · 3 min

Why India’s biggest hackathon is broken: the SIH Illusion

What actually decides the outcome at Smart India Hackathon, and why the scoring rewards presentation over engineering.

Read this

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