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.

Apr 2026 The case against print Systems Mar 2026 One day, today. Reflecting on Kilimanjaro Summit Oct 2025 Stop Chasing AI Use Cases Systems Oct 2025 What's in a name? Summit
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 Super Bowl Party Game

A one-day build to see if I could make a real-time multiplayer trivia game for Super Bowl parties. Spoiler: it works....

Next.js, Socket.IO, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript
04 Stream-ML Housing Lab

I wanted to learn MLOps properly — not just the concepts, but the patterns you'd actually use in production. So I bui...

Python, MLflow, FastAPI, scikit-learn, Poetry, YAML