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title: "Adarsh Prashar - Founding Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Adarsh Prashar, Building an AI co-pilot · Omniful · Candidate Master, Codeforces (top 100 India) · 6★ CodeChef · LeetCode top 0.5% · 2× ICPC Regionalist · Building RiskKernel (open-source AI-agent reliability) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude. Explo..."
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# Adarsh Prashar on Tal

## Headline

Building an AI co\-pilot · Omniful · Candidate Master, Codeforces \(top 100 India\) · 6★ CodeChef · LeetCode top 0\.5% · 2× ICPC Regionalist · Building RiskKernel \(open\-source AI\-agent reliability\)

## About

Currently building 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀, end\-to\-end\. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 — 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐨\-𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬\. Six specialized AI agents — 𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰, 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 — debate every setup before a signal fires\. A 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱\-𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 enforces position discipline at the server\. Trades execute via official broker APIs\. 𝗜𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆\. → 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞\.𝐜𝐨𝐦/ 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 — an 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧\-𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 \+ 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬\. Deterministic 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵, 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘱, 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 budgets enforced in compiled 𝗚𝗼 — never by an LLM\. Crash\-resumable runs, human approval gates on side\-effecting tool calls, OpenTelemetry GenAI export, BYO key\. One env var to adopt\. Apache\-2\.0\. → 𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐛\.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝟑𝟐/𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮: deterministic risk engines wrapping non\-deterministic systems\. The safe part was never the smart part — it was the hard\-coded layer around it\. Before this I spent three years at 𝗢𝗺𝗻𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 — supply\-chain SaaS, Gurgaon\. Joined as the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 when the team was < 10\. Stayed through it crossing 150\. In that time I shipped: — 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 \- processing 75K\+ orders/day at 99\.9999% uptime — 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 \- routing 500K\+ shipments/month, internally called "the brain" — 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲\-𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 \- answering 1M\+ transactions/month — 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 \- every internal team adopted \(cut incident response 40%\) 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲\.\.\. 𝗟𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗵 → 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 end to end 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲\. 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀 I also do independent evaluation work on 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 — 𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴\. The thread under all of it is 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴\. — Candidate Master on Codeforces \(𝟮𝟬𝟰𝟴, 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮\)\. — 6★ on CodeChef\. — Top 𝟬\.𝟱% on LeetCode\. — 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝟮 at Google Code Jam, Meta Hacker Cup and 𝟮× ICPC Regionalist\. — \~3,000 problems solved\. Watching for 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 — small, technical, building something I'd actually want to use and sell\. adarsh\.prashar32@gmail\.com

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

hermes agent

mcp

## Work experience

Founding Software Engineer at Stealth AI Startup, Mar 2026 \- Present · 6 mo, India, Building an 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐨\-𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, solo and end\-to\-end\. 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗮, 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆\. — 𝗦𝗶𝘅\-𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰, 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰\-𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭\. Multi\-model debate \(Claude \+ GPT\) with per\-user spend caps\. — 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿\-𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲: 2% per trade, 6% monthly cap, 15% position size, 3 concurrent positions\. Hard\-coded, no overrides\. — 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 via official Zerodha Kite API\. Idempotent bracket orders, per\-user serialization, paper/live toggle\. — 𝗡𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗧𝗠 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗿 with Black\-Scholes pricing and India\-VIX\-derived IV for paper mode\. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Next\.js 14, TypeScript, FastAPI, Python, Supabase, Razorpay, OpenAI, Anthropic\. AES\-256 for stored broker credentials\. Full audit log of trades, risk checks, and LLM calls\. → thesunrize\.com ————————————————————————————————————————————— Also shipping 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 — an 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧\-𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 \+ 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬\. — Deterministic 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵, 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘱, 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 budgets enforced in compiled Go — never by an LLM\. — Crash\-resumable runs, human approval gates on side\-effecting tool calls, OpenTelemetry GenAI export, git\-native \+ SQLite owned memory\. — BYO key, no telemetry\. One env var to adopt\. Apache\-2\.0\. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Go core \+ Python SDK\. Adapters for Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK\. → github\.com/prashar32/riskkernel ————————————————————————————————————————————— 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀: deterministic risk engines wrapping non\-deterministic systems\.

AI agent rater and evaluator at Mercor, Feb 2026 \- Present · 7 mo, Remote, Evaluation & Rubric Design: Design, author, and refine rubric\-driven evaluation frameworks for AI agent and coding tasks, defining scoring criteria for reasoning, tool\-use, and task completion used across frontier LLM training pipelines\. Agent Evaluation: Rate AI agent outputs against these rubrics at scale, surfacing failure modes and improving inter\-rater consistency across expert reviewer pools\. Technical Specialist Work: Engaged as a Competitive Programming Specialist and SWE Expert, reviewing and grading advanced coding submissions for correctness, efficiency, and edge\-case handling\.

Software Engineer II \(Backend \+ Data\) at Omniful, Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, India, \- Built the product\-wide reporting & analytics layer on ClickHouse, delivering real\-time insights for 𝟏𝐌\+ transactions/month at sub\-second 𝐩𝟗𝟓\. \- Designed and shipped the Shipment Management Service routing 𝟓𝟎𝟎𝐊\+ monthly shipments — internally called "𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧" — improving delivery accuracy 𝟑𝟓% and automating complex multi\-carrier logistics\. \- Built the in\-house Centralized Logging Service adopted by every internal team; cut incident response 𝟒𝟎% and improved system observability at scale\. \- Led the monolith → microservices migration along with the underlying DB migration — zero data loss, zero downtime\. \- Drove platform stability and developer experience: SLO\-driven monitoring, automated deployment workflows, migration playbooks the next 𝟏𝟎𝟎\+ engineers joined into\. \- Operated as a senior IC, building platform tooling end\-to\-end as the engineering org scaled from 𝟏𝟎 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟓𝟎\+ engineers\.

Software Engineer at Omniful, Jun 2023 \- Jun 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Built the Order Management System \(OMS\) processing 𝟕𝟓𝐤\+ orders/day at 𝟗𝟗\.𝟗𝟗𝟗𝟗% uptime — from first commit to high\-volume launch\. \- Architected the Rule Management Service to handle dynamic business logic; cut feature rollout time 𝟓𝟎% and increased flexibility for 𝟖𝟎𝟎\+ global sellers\. \- Built the Customer Management Service and Analytics Management Service on RocksDB, supporting 𝟓𝟎𝟎𝐊 active users with low\-latency reads\. \- Led automated DB migrations, unified API versioning, and microservice scaling to handle a 𝟏𝟎× peak\-traffic increase\. \- 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Go, RocksDB, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS\.

Software Engineer Intern at Omniful, Jan 2023 \- May 2023 · 5 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Wrote the foundational Catalogue Management Service and Order Management Service — the backbone the commerce backend still runs on\. \- Built scalable catalogue ingestion and order processing pipelines serving 𝟖𝟎𝟎\+ vendors and 𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎\+ daily transactions\. \- Shipped high\-quality Go microservices with Postgres / MongoDB / Kafka event\-driven architectures, working alongside senior engineers from day one\. \- Gained hands\-on IC experience shipping backend features from 𝟎 → 𝟏 and participating in the company’s earliest scaling phases

Problem setter at Scaler, Jun 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Formulated over 400 problems for InterviewBit and Scaler Academy hiring contests, enhancing candidate evaluation\. • Rigorously tested and validated 350\+ problems, ensuring high quality and integrity in assessments\. • Implemented optimal solutions for various problem sets, demonstrating strong algorithmic design and problem\-solving skills\.

Head Of Programming at SLIET Software Developement Club, Aug 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Sangrur, Punjab, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/prashar32
- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/prashar32
- codeforces: https://codeforces\.com/profile/prashar32
- youtube\.com: https://youtube\.com/@prashar32

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