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title: "Yash Kumar - Founding Engineer in Bangalore Urban | Tal"
description: "Meet Yash Kumar, Building AgentClash | AI agent evaluation on real tasks | AI Engineer @ Akatsuki AI | GSoC ’25 based in Bangalore Urban. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex. Explore public work links including github."
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# Yash Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Building AgentClash \| AI agent evaluation on real tasks \| AI Engineer @ Akatsuki AI \| GSoC ’25

## About

AI agents look great in demos\. Real tasks are where the weird failures show up\. I’m building AgentClash, an open\-source platform for evaluating agents under the same workload, tools, sandbox, and budget\. It keeps the replay, scorecard, artifacts, and failure evidence, so teams can choose the right agent, catch regressions, and ship with proof instead of vibes\. I also build production AI systems at Akatsuki AI Technologies\. Before that, Google Summer of Code 2025 with OpenWISP taught me what good open\-source engineering looks like: real users, testable work, and maintainable systems\. I’m interested in agent evaluation, tool use, multi\-turn reliability, prompt injection, agent UX, open source, and the messy work of explaining technical products clearly\. If you’re shipping agents and still judging them from demos, I’d love to compare notes: https://www\.agentclash\.dev

## Location

Bangalore Urban

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

hermes agent

langchain

## Work experience

Founding Engineer at Artistant, Jun 2026 \- Present · 4 mo, Remote, Building an platform for brands to collab easily with artists “no more emails”

Builder at AgentClash, Jun 2026 \- Present · 4 mos, I’m helping build AgentClash, an open\-source platform for evaluating AI agents on real tasks\. My focus is the bridge between product, users, and distribution: • turn agent\-evaluation research into useful demos, benchmarks, and technical content • talk with teams shipping agents and turn their failure modes into better product workflows • make replays, scorecards, and regression gates understandable enough to act on • grow the open\-source community around practical agent evaluation AgentClash runs candidates against the same workload, tools, sandbox, and budget, then preserves the evidence behind every pass or failure\. https://www\.agentclash\.dev

Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Akatsuki AI Technologies, Jan 2026 \- May 2026 · 5 mos, Shipped Casting Doctor AI, a bilingual \(JP/EN\) internal chatbot for Hakuhodo Casting & Entertainment covering talent search, booking history, regulatory NG checks, and reliability scoring; authored a structured test\-prompt suite covering five product requirements across both languages\. Built and deployed the Onet LINE Nurturing Bot on the OpenClaw platform — AI\-driven LINE channel funnel \+ advisor\-facing recommendation tool \(FUNC\-01 & FUNC\-02\), with prompt\-injection defense and APPI compliance for Japanese enterprise data\. Analyzed 514,000\+ rows of Veeva Vault CRM Japanese sales\-rep visit notes for Shionogi Pharma; extracted competitor drug mentions and surfaced flu\-season activity spikes \(e\.g\. Tamiflu mentions 100 → 3,100/month\), and architected the end\-to\-end stakeholder demo pipeline\. Shipped client\-facing bilingual web apps to Vercel \(Hakuhodo Talent & Project Data Mart, AKTSK Voice Concierge\) and authored internal Claude Code skills \(pptx\-template\-proposals, pptx\-akatsuki\-proposals\) now used by the proposals team; built a Gmail → Slack alert bot \(Apps Script \+ Groq\) with urgency\-tiered private DMs\.

Open Source Developer at OpenWISP, Jun 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 4 mos, Shipped 5 features \+ 2 production fixes to netjsongraph\.js \(Leaflet \+ ECharts\), the visualization library powering OpenWISP deployments globally\. All proposed objectives merged to main\. Cluster Overlap Prevention — 4\-stage pipeline \(GeoJSON/NetJSON converter, KDBush spatial clustering, circular layout, repulsion forces\) that visually separates co\-located clusters of differing status \(PR \#396, \#349, monitoring \#668\)\. Client\-Nodes Overlay — modular attachClientsOverlay API with orbital placement \(concentric rings, density\-aware dot count\) \+ recursive sidebar rendering \(PR \#411\)\. Zoom\-dependent labels for map \(zoomend\) and graph \(graphRoam\) modes \(\#407, \#419\)\. Resiliency: deduplicateNodesById \(\#355\), tile\-provider\-aware max\-zoom \(\#363\), scoped CSS \(\#374\), README/GIF demos \(\#441\)\. Mentored by Federico Capoano, Nitesh Sinha, Gagan Deep\.

Open Source Developer at Google Summer of Code, May 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 5 mos, bangalore, Improve netjsongraph\.js resiliency and visualization

## Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Specialisation In AI/ML, Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/cestercian

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