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wave Hi, I'm Karan!

Featured Projects

🚗 PayPark

Usage-based parking with real-time sessions and RLUSD settlement on the XRP Ledger.

Instead of paying for a fixed block of parking time, PayPark lets drivers start a live session, track cost as they park, and settle only for the time they actually use.

Next.js TypeScript Express Socket.io XRPL RLUSD TomTom

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  • 🏆 3rd Place Overall
  • 🏆 Best Financial Hack — Capital One
  • 🏆 On-Chain Innovation — Ripple
  • 🏆 Most Popular Hack

📈 Fiscal

A real-time crypto portfolio simulator built around market behavior rather than static balances.

Streams BTC/ETH pricing and order-book data, supports simulated trading, and layers AI-generated risk commentary over portfolio activity.

Real-time APIs Gemini FinTech Market Data


🧠 Miser

A personal-finance platform built around making financial data easier to query and understand.

Supports transaction ingestion, automatic CSV mapping, retrieval-augmented financial chat, and portfolio visualizations.

Next.js TypeScript RAG Semantic Kernel SQLite


What I'm Interested In

Cloud Infrastructure    → repeatable, policy-aware systems
Distributed Systems     → state, coordination, reliability
AI Infrastructure       → retrieval, orchestration, observability
FinTech                 → market systems, payments, financial tooling
Physical AI             → reinforcement learning + simulation

Tech Stack

Languages

Python · Java · C++ · TypeScript · JavaScript

Application Development

Next.js · React · Node.js · Express · Flask

Infrastructure & DevOps

AWS · Terraform · Docker · Git/GitHub · Jenkins · GCP · Azure

Data & Systems

SQL · MySQL · SQLite · Redis · Prisma

AI / ML

Gemini API · RAG · Semantic Kernel · Hugging Face · Isaac Gym


Currently Exploring

  • infrastructure abstractions that make cloud systems harder to misuse
  • distributed state and real-time systems
  • AI infrastructure beyond the model API
  • reinforcement learning in simulated environments
  • financial systems where software decisions directly affect user behavior

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  1. PayPark PayPark Public

    Usage-based smart parking with real-time sessions and RLUSD settlement on XRPL.

    C 2 3

  2. Luna Luna Public

    Geospatial decision engine for evaluating commercial sites for edge computing and rooftop solar.

    TypeScript