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# Sailesh Bhupalam on Tal

## Headline

Founder, VibeAtlas \| Building SHIP Protocol : the reliability score for AI\-generated code \| Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneer 2026

## About

Building SHIP Protocol at VibeAtlas :\- A 0\-100 reliability score for AI\-generated code\. The problem: 41% of new code is AI\-generated\. Nearly half has security flaws\. There's no standard way to measure whether AI\-generated code is reliable before it ships\. We're building that standard\. What we've built: A 3\-tier classification engine that scores AI\-generated code across 12 task categories in under 5 milliseconds, with calibrated confidence intervals\. Think of it like a credit score, but for AI coding agents\. Selected as a Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneer 2026 \(4,800\+ applicants, 108 countries\)\. Before this: I spent 5\+ years in education \-\- designed and ran courses for 10,000\+ students at Insights IAS \(among others\) on a revenue\-share model\. That taught me how to build systems that work at scale and how to explain complex things clearly\. LLMs brought me back to building\. This isn't another tech cycle\. It's a general\-purpose technology shift\. The reliability problem for AI\-generated code is real, urgent, and needs deep tech solutions\. Based in Bangalore\. Building in public\. Always happy to talk about AI reliability, deep tech, or the founder experience\.

## Location

Bangalore Urban

## Work experience

Independent builder at Independent Consultant, Jul 2024 \- Nov 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India, Built 15\+ tools using AI coding agents \- personal tools, hackathon projects, sold a few to others\. Some examples: SKU IQ \- Recognizes products on a retail shelf and adds them to inventory with just a photo taken from a phone\. \(Sold\) Dhruva AI \- An AI system to revamp state grievance redressal end\-to\-end by training small models that work as a team\. Presented to the Chief Minister's office at the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat as a finalist in a nationwide hackathon\. Selected until the final round at the AI Impact Summit\. Stack: Claude, Cursor, Copilot, GPT\-4, various open source models\. What worked: Rapid prototyping, iteration speed, building things I couldn't have built alone\. What didn't: Agents ignoring instructions\. Context overflowing\. Attention wasted on irrelevant code\. Constant babysitting\. Hallucinations breaking working code\. Spent significant time understanding how LLMs actually work \- attention mechanisms, context limits, token economics, where reliability breaks down\. The patterns I saw across 15\+ projects \( where agents fail and why \) became the foundation for VibeAtlas\.

Course director, faculty at Insights IAS, Mar 2019 \- Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \-\- end to end management of courses i designed, developed and ran on revenue sharing basis \-\- 5000\+ hours of cumulative teaching experience 1> Indian Economy x 21 batches \(Around 120 hours course\) 2> Current Affairs x 12 batches \(Around 120 hours course\) 3> Public Administration x 6 batches \(150 hours out of total 300 hours course\) \- Have Taught to more than 10,000 students as faculty member cumulatively \- Have mentored more than 2000 students over a period of 2\+ years directly Product management experience \-\- Responsible for end to end creation, running, marketing and sales of multiple courses on revenue sharing basis\. \-\- Designed the courseware and executed based on balance between student requests and needs of the exam \-\- Handled complete responsibility of society and social justice course single\-handedly \-\- Handled GS3 bridge course in collaboration with another faculty \-\- Handled public administration course in collaboration with another faculty \-\- Handled current affairs bootcamp for mains in collaboration with another faculty Role in these courses : product owner, product co\-owner and product manager responsibility: Total \(with regard to the particular product\)

Academic Content Specialist, creator and Editor at Freelance Writing Services, Apr 2017 \- Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \-\- Created and edited content for more than 30 different projects in UPSC training sphere \-\- Worked with clients like Byjus, La Excellence etc \-\- Created a bestselling book for UPSC prelims \-\- Indian Economy Ready Reckoner \-\- Quality control of content of various organisations

Senior evaluator and Quality Assurance Specialist at Freelance, Oct 2016 \- Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \-\- Checked more than 500 answer booklets for quality of evaluation \-\- Gave feedback to more than 1000 students over a period of 2\+ years \-\- Co\-ordinated with question setting team to improve quality of questions \-\- Co\-ordinated with content team to improve quality of answer synopsis \-\- Dealt with escalations from students with regard to evaluation quality

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology

Minidegree, Digital Psychology and Persuasion, CXL

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