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title: "Dr. N. Rathankar Rao - AI Intern [ Online Internship ] in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Dr. N. Rathankar Rao, Founder & Product Builder at prayogashaala.com based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, antigravity, and claude code. Explore public work links including rathankar.com."
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# Dr\. N\. Rathankar Rao on Tal

## Headline

Founder & Product Builder at prayogashaala\.com

## About

A student once wrote on a mock exam: "as the ball goes up, gravity decreases, that's why it slows down\." Confident\. Fully worked out\. Completely wrong\. That single misconception has cost hundreds of my students marks over 25 years, not because they didn't understand gravity, but because nobody caught it before it calcified into "how they think\." Finding and fixing those hidden errors, at scale, is the thread running through everything below\. I operate at the intersection of pedagogical logic and AI\-orchestrated product building\. For 25\+ years I've led physics instruction across IBDP, A\-Levels, and Indian competitive frameworks \(JEE/NEET\)\. Currently as Head of Department, Physics at Indus International School, Bangalore, with a Ph\.D\. in Biophysics & Computational Crystallography and an M\.Sc\. in Physics from Bangalore University\. In the generative\-AI era, I treat LLMs as junior developers: I don't write manual syntax, I specify the logic, parameters, UI behavior, and edge cases up front, direct the build with Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Antigravity, then validate every result myself\. 🌐 LIVE PLATFORMS & PROOF OF WORK rathankar\.com: master portfolio covering my teaching background, pedagogical philosophy, and active EdTech projects\. ibhighway\.com: a 10\-tool, Google Gemini\-API\-powered IBDP platform across two subscription tiers, with six chained student workflows from research question to final draft\. prayogashaala\.com: 40\+ web\-based physics, maths, and AI\-classroom tools across mechanics, fields, electromagnetism, and relativity, each shipped with a public build\-log of the actual prompts and logic behind it\. ibphysicswithrao\.com: 2,200\+ video lessons and 90\+ syllabus\-mapped playlists, serving as a live benchmark for online physics education\. 🚀 CORE METHODOLOGY AI\-Directed Prototyping: specifying complete product logic up front, then directing Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Antigravity to build, no hand\-written code, systematic edge\-case validation instead\. Prompt Architecture: structured, multi\-step prompt design for educational tools, translating curriculum standards and misconception patterns into working product logic\. I'm open to roles as Principal, Professor of Physics, or School Administrator and equally to Prompt Engineer or AI Implementation Strategist roles, wherever domain expertise paired with hands\-on AI building is the actual point\. If you're evaluating either kind of role, I'd welcome a conversation\. 📩 contact@rathankar\.com \| rathankar\.com Whatsapp: 8618952526

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

gemini

lovable

## Work experience

AI Intern \[ Online Internship \] at FlyRank AI, Jun 2026 \- Present · 5 mos, Currently interning at FlyRank AI as an AI intern \(ONLINE ONLY\), focusing on General AI Fluency

IBDP Physics Facilitator and HOD Physics at Indus International School Bangalore \(IISB\), Aug 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru

Founder & Product Builder at ibhighway\.com, Mar 2026 \- Aug 2026 · 6 mos, Remote, Designed and shipped a 10\-tool, Google Gemini\-API\-powered platform for IB students, entirely through AI\-directed development — I specify the product logic, UI behavior, and edge cases, then direct the build with Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Antigravity, and validate every result myself\. The platform covers the full IB workflow across two subscription tiers: BridgeSpeak \(English fluency\), IB Mentor, AI Study Coach, Deadline Calendar, and Misconception Analyzer in the core tier; IA/EE/TOK Project Diaries, Research to Lab, ClarifyAI, and UniApply in the full suite\. I designed six chained student workflows — for example, a topic goes into Research to Lab, then the IA Mentor, and comes out a validated research question — so the tools compound rather than sit as isolated features\. The Misconception Analyzer runs on a detection taxonomy I built from 25 years of documented student errors — the same domain expertise behind everything else I've shipped\. The product itself is privacy\-by\-design: anonymous accounts, user\-supplied API keys stored only in the browser, and a self\-serve teacher affiliate program\.

IBDP Physics Facilitator at Jain International Residential School, Dec 2022 \- Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Facilitating students of IBDP to learn the concepts in physics\. 2\. Incharge of setting up an Astrophysics Lab setup

Founder & Product Builder at prayogashaala\.com, Mar 2021 \- Aug 2026 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Built an independent digital laboratory of 40\+ interactive tools across four wings — 17\+ Physics Simulations \(Brachistochrone, Carnot Cycle, Minkowski Diagram Explorer, Motional EMF Lab\), Classroom Tools, AI Tools \(IA/EE/TOK mentors, solvers, a prompt studio\), and a Maths Lab, including an 8\-part Collatz Conjecture research series\. Every tool follows the same process: I specify the physical parameters, mathematical relationships, UI behavior, and edge cases up front, direct the build with Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Antigravity, then validate the physics and the logic myself\. Simulations are built to be manipulated, not just watched — draggable spacetime diagrams, live p\-V plots, interactive vector fields — designed around the specific misconceptions I've documented in 25 years of teaching, so the tool corrects the exact wrong idea a student is likely to have\. What makes this different from a typical simulation library: every tool ships with a public "Lab Notes" build\-log — the actual prompts, the framework, and the failures behind it\. It's an open record of how AI\-directed development actually works in practice, not a polished case study after the fact\. One of the simulations, the Minkowski Diagram Explorer, also has its source published on GitHub \(github\.com/rathankar/minkowski\_simulation\) if anyone wants to see the code itself\.

## Education

Ph\.D \[Physics\], Bioinformatics, bangalore university

M\. Sc, Bioinformatics, Annamalai university

## Public links

- rathankar\.com: https://rathankar\.com/

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