AI/ML Engineer · Agents × Hardware

I build machines that think, act & move.

I'm Atharv — a second-year AI/ML student already shipping production AI. I build agents that do real work, the on-premise hardware they run on, and everything in between: from the model to the motor.

See my work ↓Work with metaking on a few select projects
Portrait of Atharv Bhosale
agents
that's me!
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RIGHT NOW
building Friday
AI Box w/ Ahum Labs
B.Tech AI/ML · yr 2
3Production products co-built
5Freelance clients, shipped end to end
Year 2Of my B.Tech — and already in productionyes, really
4Leadership & ambassador roles
the short version

Most engineers pick a layer and stay there. I go where the problem goes — down to the firmware, up to the model, out to the user. I build agents that think, workflows that run themselves, machines that move — and the software that ships all of it.

They say a jack of all trades is a master of none. I'm working on the exception.

Ch. 01 / 04AI Agents

THINK

Agents that do the work, not the demo.

Wiring an LLM to a prompt takes an afternoon. Making it hold up on the thousandth run — when a tool call fails, the data is messy and the edge case nobody wrote down finally shows up — is the actual job. I co-developed Sorch, a recruiting agent that does the screening calls recruiters used to make by hand, and I'm building Friday, an agent that runs real office work.

  • multi-step, tool-using agents
  • voice agents in production
  • approvals, audit logs & guardrails
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Ch. 02 / 04Workflows & Automation

RUN

Operations that run themselves.

Every business has work that moves between inboxes, spreadsheets and tired people. I map how it actually flows, then rebuild it as systems that run on their own. With Salex, a salon's whole operation — bookings, staff, stock, money — moved into one app for the owner and one WhatsApp chat for the customer.

  • n8n, OpenClaw & Hermes
  • WhatsApp-native flows in production
  • connectors into Tally & office systems
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Ch. 03 / 04Hardware / Physical AI

MOVE

Intelligence with a body.

The real world doesn't fit in a context window. With Ahum Labs I'm building Project AI Box — a single-board computer that runs a team of sandboxed agents on local models, on a custom control board and firmware validated in simulation before it touches silicon. Friday is getting a body too: a 3-ft wheeled assistant robot.

  • custom control boards & firmware
  • IoT & embedded systems
  • simulate first, then build
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Ch. 04 / 04Full-stack & Infrastructure

SHIP

None of it matters until someone uses it.

I ship on every surface it takes — web, Android in Flutter, desktop in Tauri — and I run my own infrastructure. Two retired PCs became a private cloud that's online 24/7 — I can deploy to it from anywhere, even from my phone.

  • Next.js, Node, Flutter, Tauri
  • Linux, Docker, AWS & DevOps
  • a 24/7 homelab I run from my phone
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Selected
builds

(a few of many — click one to look inside)
In progress
Project AI Box — a graphite tower with a column of white status lights and one red light
Building with Ahum LabsAn on-premise computer that runs a whole team of AI agents inside an office — each isolated in its own sandbox, on local models, with no cloud dependency. Your next hire is a box.Stack — Local LLMs · Sandboxed agents · Custom firmware
In progresson it.done ✓ need your okapproved.runs on AI Box
My productThe agent that does the work for you — automating real office tasks on Project AI Box — and a 3-ft wheeled home and business assistant robot that gives it a body.Stack — Agents · Local LLMs · Robotics
Prototypinga great mindthinks like themSTAYS ON THEIR MACHINE
My product — first twin for a professor at IIT BombayIn 1983, Steve Jobs imagined a machine we could one day ask, "Hey, what would Aristotle have said?" I'm building it. A digital twin that holds everything a great mind knows and thinks the way they think — so their knowledge, and their way of reasoning, stay with us for generations.Stack — Local LLM · Voice · Retrieval
Live
Sorch — configuring an outbound interview voice agent
Co-developer, with Ahum LabsA recruiter that makes a thousand calls before lunch. Sorch is an AI recruiting agent that phones every candidate, runs the screening conversation, checks what matters for the role and hands humans a shortlist — with transcripts and scores. Built for maritime crews, made for any role where hiring still runs on phone calls.Stack — Voice agents · LLMs · Full-stack
In use in Mumbai
Salex on WhatsApp — choosing a salonSalex on WhatsApp — picking a time slotSalex on WhatsApp — appointment confirmed
Co-developerThe whole salon, run from one phone. Salex gives salon and beauty-parlour owners a single app for appointments, staff, inventory, expenses and income — while their customers book straight from WhatsApp in a few taps, no app to install. Plus a marketplace to discover salons across Mumbai.Stack — Mobile app · WhatsApp · Node.js · Next.js
DeliveredORDERandroid — flutterdesktop — tauri
Freelance — sole developerAn Android app in Flutter and a desktop app in Tauri for a consumer water-bottle brand — taken from requirements to deployment.Stack — Flutter · Dart · Tauri
Online 24/7$ ssh homelabwelcome back, atharv$ docker compose up -d✓ all services up✓from my phone,from anywheretwo old PCs → a cloud that never sleeps
Side projectTwo retired PCs, reborn as a private cloud that never sleeps. It's online 24/7 and reachable from anywhere — so I can experiment, deploy and ship from wherever I am. Even from my phone.Stack — Linux · Docker · Tailscale

…and plenty more living in private repos, client handovers and my homelab.

The toolbox.

what's on my workbench

The stack I reach for — from the model all the way down to the motor.

01AI / ML
  • Agentic pipelines
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Sandboxed agent runtimes
  • Real-time voice agents
  • RAG & retrieval systems
  • Context engineering
  • On-prem LLM inference
  • Edge AI
  • PyTorch
02Agents & automation
  • End-to-end workflow automation
  • Tool calling
  • Human-in-the-loop approvals
  • n8n
  • OpenClaw
  • Hermes
  • WhatsApp Business API
03Hardware
  • Embedded systems
  • Firmware
  • Custom control boards
  • IoT
  • Robotics
  • Hardware simulation
04Web & mobile
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • REST APIs
  • Flutter
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Tauri
05Infra & DevOps
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Tailscale
  • Self-hosted GPU servers
  • Git
06Languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Dart
Track record

The other half of the job.

Great systems are built by people who can lead a room, not just a terminal.

  1. 2026 — now

    Ahum Labs

    Building production systems at a forward-deployed AI engineering firm whose clients include maritime and offshore companies. Co-developed Sorch; building Project AI Box.

  2. Present

    AI Pulse — Universal AI University

    Senior Technical Team Lead of the university's AI club. I lead the technical team behind its events and workshops, and publish Pulse of the Week — an AI newsletter read by students and professors.

  3. 2026

    Salex

    Co-developer — the owner app that runs an entire salon, WhatsApp booking for customers, and the salexnow.com marketplace. In use by salons in Mumbai.

  4. 2025 — now

    Freelance

    Five clients delivered end to end, from requirements to deployment.

  5. 2025 — 2029

    Universal AI University

    B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.

off the keyboard

Senior Technical Team Lead

AI Pulse — the university AI club

I run the technical team and publish Pulse of the Week, an AI newsletter read by students and professors.

Google Gemini Student Ambassador

Google

Paytm Ambassador

Paytm

University Ambassador

Universal AI University

Workshops & events

Speaker & organiser

Teaching is how I check I actually understand something.

SemiX Summit 2026

IIT Bombay

Semiconductors, industry and academia, in one room.

Let's build
something real.

Got a hard problem somewhere between AI and the physical world? Those are my favourite kind.