20 Oct 2026
7 min read
Vaani: a voice agent that gets names, dates and numbers right
How Vaani, a multilingual voice agent for lending support, matches spoken names by sound, verifies callers and runs securely on one AWS server.
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Technical articles & notes
Engineering notes written to make difficult systems easier to understand, revisit and build again.
18 Sep 2026
1 min read
Notes on a policy RAG assistant
Design notes on building a retrieval-augmented assistant for internal policy: scoping, private documents and awkward tables.
18 Sep 2026
1 min read
Notes on a hardware-style plugin UI in JUCE
Bugs from building a skeuomorphic plugin UI in React inside a JUCE WebView: rotation, transparency and rounding.
18 Sep 2026
1 min read
Fixing a slow dashboard without a rewrite
A slow dashboard looked like a backend-language problem. It was N+1 queries and missing indexes.
18 Sep 2026
1 min read
Airflow on one EC2 box
Notes from running Apache Airflow with LocalExecutor and a Postgres metadata database on a single EC2 instance to schedule PySpark jobs.