_ chronarchitect.github.io · v2026

ANIKET DAS

Engineer Builder Writer Photographer Tinkerer

Currently_

Building PixelGhost publicly

Helping scale Jahnavi's business at muramallajahnaviartistry.com

Writing long-form essays

Learning portrait photography

Work

EXPERIENCE

Dell Technologies · Software Engineer II

AI & Backend Engineering

  • Built a semantic retrieval / RAG-style system for Jira deduplication across 4 engineering teams — swapped TF-IDF for BERT-based dense embeddings, integrated with the Jira API, validated quality with team leads.
  • Active open source contributor across Dell's IaC ecosystem: terraform-provider-objectscale, ansible-powerscale, ansible-powerstore, python-powerstore, dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules. Terraform provider dev, Ansible collection maintenance, cross-version compatibility.
  • Contributing to internal AI infrastructure and backend services, focusing on retrieval quality and agentic workflows.
PythonGoFastAPIPyTorchBERTRAGTerraformAnsibleDockerLinux

Jan 2023 — Present

Bengaluru, India

Bosch Global Software Technologies · Project Trainee

Embedded Linux & Multimedia

  • Developed and deployed custom embedded Linux distributions for consumer electronics, enhancing multimedia playback capabilities.
  • Engineered hardware-accelerated multimedia pipelines for video playback on the NXP i.MX 8M Nano Evaluation Kit.
  • Benchmarked six video codecs to optimise pipeline efficiency.
LinuxEmbedded SystemsGStreamerNXP i.MX 8M

Jun — Dec 2022

Bengaluru, India

M.Tech · Computer Science

BIT Mesra  · CGPA 8.63 · 2021–2023

B.Tech · CSE

KIIT Bhubaneswar  · CGPA 8.34 · 2017–2021

Projects

WHAT I'VE
BUILT

01

Pixel-Ghost

AGPLv3 · FastAPI + React/TypeScript · WIP

Modular steganography toolkit. Pluggable encoding architecture (LSB, DCT, DFT), async multiprocessing task queue, Docker + CI/CD pipeline. What I think software design looks like when it has room to breathe.

FastAPIReactTypeScriptDockerCI/CD
pixelghost.aniketdas.dev → GitHub →
WIP
02

Homomorphic Encryption

⭐ 41 stars · Springer LNEE Vol. 825 · 700+ reads

Privacy-preserving cloud image editing using Paillier's Additive Homomorphic Cryptosystem. Edit images on a remote server without ever decrypting them. Presented at ICIA 2020, published February 2022.

PythonCryptographyPaillier HE
Springer → GitHub (41★) →
Published
03

Jahnavi's Website

Commercial Deployment · muramallajahnaviartistry.com

Scaling a premium makeup artistry business. A place to host a high-performance portfolio, and SEO-optimized architecture. Helping a growing brand own its digital presence.

HTML5Web HostingCSS3 [Vanilla]SEO
muramallajahnaviartistry.com →
Live

Writing

LONG-FORM
THINKING

Mythos

THE WEIRD
SECTION

Recurring themes. Symbols. Personal mythology. Not because it's objectively true — because humans run on stories.

ChronArchitect

Time as raw material, not constraint. The one who builds the thing doesn't just write about it.

🪓

The Kratos Thread

Carrying the weight of who you were into the chapter you're writing now. The choice to author anyway.

🌿

Absurdism

Post-nihilism. The universe doesn't care which is exactly what makes your choices matter. Neitzsche diagnosed the problem left us to find a solution.

🔭

The Observatory

Future artifact. A telescope. A place to feel appropriately small. In progress.

📡

Mesh & Signal

Decentralised comms as philosophy. Don't depend on infrastructure you don't own.

Timeline

EVIDENCE OF
EXISTENCE

2026
Personal website launched — chronarchitect.github.io
Jahnavi Artistry website launched — muramallajahnaviartistry.com
PixelGhost developed — AGPLv3 steganography toolkit
First portrait photography shoot
2025
MSI GP63 resurrected — thermal repaste, battery swap, OC
NVMe enclosure firmware modified via MPtool
2023
Joined Dell Technologies full-time — SWE II
M.Tech completed — BIT Mesra, CGPA 9.21
2022
Springer paper published — 41 stars, 700+ reads
Pixel-Ghost first release — Steganography toolkit
Bosch internship — embedded Linux, multimedia pipelines
2021
B.Tech completed — KIIT, CGPA 8.34
2012–17

Early Signals

🏆 Gold Medal, Tata Building India Essay Competition
🥈 Silver Medal, Horlicks Wiz Kids Creative Writing
📖 Co-authored a short story published in Braided Tales
🧠 Won the Ojass Tech Quiz at NIT Jamshedpur

Looking back, most of the interests that define me today were already visible here: writing, technology, storytelling, and an unhealthy tendency to disappear into rabbit holes.

Trophy Wall

THE WALL

Not for status. For moments. Tiny wins count.

🌐

Jahnavi Artistry Launched

Business Website · 2026

🚀

PixelGhost Deployed

Public Release · 2026

📸

Portrait Photography

First Major Shoot · 2026

41 GitHub Stars

Homomorphic Encryption · 2022

🧠

Tech Quiz Winner

Ojass · NIT Jamshedpur · 2017

📖

Published Short Story

Braided Tales · 2016

🥈

Silver Medal

Horlicks Wiz Kids · 2013

🏆

Gold Medal

Tata Building India · 2012

Credentials

CERTIFICATES
& LICENSES

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Applied Natural Language Processing

Issued Jul 2023

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Jupyter

Coursera

Sampling People, Networks and Records

Issued Apr 2021

ID: TP63QEZKBM8D
Sampling People Analytics

Coursera

Introduction to People Analytics

Issued Mar 2021

ID: D4SPPS3Z9E6W
People Analytics

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Fundamentals of Machine Learning

Issued Jan 2019

ID: KIIT/KONNEXIONS/2018-19/AUTUMN/TC/025
Machine Learning Jupyter

Inventory

WHAT
EXISTS

Not goals. Not plans. Things currently true. An antidote to the brain that only tracks deficits.

Own apartment in Bengaluru

Pixel-Ghost — publicly deployed, WIP

Springer paper — 41 stars, 700+ reads

Guitar — in hand, learning from zero

Specialty coffee setup at home

Sony α6100 — learning to see

Jahnavi's Website — muramallajahnaviartistry.com

MSI GP63 — fully resurrected desktop

This website — the whole picture

Outside Work

THE REST
OF IT

Specialty Coffee

6+ years in. Espresso machine, sourcing single-origins, strong opinions about extraction ratios and water temperature. Not a hobby — a practice.

🎸

Guitar

Started from absolute zero, 2026. Vault Strat-style. Justin Guitar curriculum. A deliberate exercise in learning something the slow, patient way — no shortcuts.

📷

Photography

Sony α6100. Learning to see before learning to shoot. Moody, cinematic — more interested in light and mood than gear.

🏍️

Motorcycles

Riding and modifying. The intersection of mechanical understanding and controlled risk. Things work better when you understand how they're built.

🔧

Hardware & Electronics

18650 cell recovery, firmware flashing, ESP32 boards, NVMe enclosures. If it has a PCB, it's fair game. Use the things you own.

Now

JUNE 2026

Updated monthly. This prevents the site from becoming a museum.

Building

This website

Jahnavi's Website

Pixel-Ghost (Refactor)

Learning

Guitar — Justin Guitar Grade 2

Photography — composition + light

Meshtastic / mesh networking

Thinking About

Remote-first work

First YouTube upload

Cyberdeck build

Drinking

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe — Odd Coffee

93°C · 1:15 ratio · 28s bloom

The bloom smells like blueberries

Digital Garden

THE GARDEN

Not polished. Notes, observations, half-finished ideas.

Principle"Use the things you own until they're used up. Preservation is just delayed loss."
ObservationMuscle memory doesn't care about insight. Understanding something and being able to do it are different skills that require different kinds of practice.
IdeaInventory as a counter — things added over time become a growth chart. The site should make that visible.
Quote"You must imagine Sisyphus happy." — Camus. The most radical sentence in philosophy.
On CoffeeThe variables aren't complicated, they're just many. Water, grind, dose, time, temperature. Most failures are one variable, not all of them.

Contact

LET'S
TALK.

Interesting conversations welcome — AI systems, roles, collaborations, hardware problems, coffee recommendations in Bengaluru.