Machine learning that had to survive contact with something real. Every card carries its result and the baseline it beat; open one for the failure modes.
An autonomous multi-agent pricing service that reprices live intercity bus trips, with a deterministic validator standing between the language model and every fare it touches.
A desktop AI assistant whose companions live on the taskbar and drive real OS operations, with every tool call gated by a signed intent token before it is allowed to run.
A simulation engine that reconstructs a bus's full booking curve from a sparse ~30% aggregator sample, so a dynamic-pricing engine has a demand signal to price against instead of flying blind.
A picklist generator for high-throughput fulfilment that maximises units picked before fixed loading cut-offs, built around one operational insight about where the time actually goes.
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# Systems (5)
Source: https://rounak-agarwal-portfolio.pages.dev | Rounak Agarwal | AI Engineer
- Shipped or deployed: 4 of 5
- Carrying a stated baseline: 5 of 5
- With something public to open: 5 of 5
## MessChain
- Status: prototype
- Active: 06.2026 - ∞ (5m)
- Outcome: A prepaid hostel-mess ledger on a private EVM chain, where a double charge is a contract revert rather than a reconciliation dispute.
- Measurement: 6 / 27 contracts / REST routes, measured on counted from the repository: six contracts under hardhat/contracts, 27 route handlers across five Express routers, against a baseline of a paper register reconciled once a month, which anyone with access can edit
- Stack: Solidity, Hyperledger Besu, QBFT, Hardhat, Ethers.js, IPFS, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, React Native
- Evidence: Source (repo) https://github.com/rounak-agl/MessChain-Android; Project report (writeup) https://github.com/rounak-agl/MessChain-Android/blob/main/MessChain_Project_Report.md
Detail:
- Six Solidity contracts on a QBFT Hyperledger Besu network: Token, TimeLock, Rebate, MessChange, Governance and TenderRate. Every charge, meal claim and rebate is an append-only, independently verifiable record.
- TimeLock keys each day's charge on keccak256(student, mess, date), so a second charge for the same day reverts at the ledger, not in application code that a bug could route around.
- Business rules live in 28 require() guards: a rebate must start in the future and run at most 15 days, a mess change applies only after its effective date, a poll takes one vote per wallet.
- Complaint and feedback text is pinned to IPFS and only the CID is anchored on-chain, so the chain stays light and any edit to the text breaks its own hash.
- A midnight job bills every student through four on-chain checks - mess assigned, rebate inactive, balance sufficient, not already charged - which makes it safe to re-run on demand.
- Wired the React Native client to the live backend: QR meal verification with debounced scans, rebate requests pre-checked against the contract's reverts, and admin approvals that return real transaction hashes in place of mock receipts.
- Diagnosed why the chain had stopped producing blocks - the validator was signing with a key that did not match its registered identity - fixed it, and redeployed and verified the contracts.
Known limitation: The network runs a single QBFT validator, so today it has the shape of Byzantine fault tolerance without the fault tolerance: one node is one point of trust. Wallets are custodial - the backend holds every key, encrypted with AES-256-GCM - which is what makes the app usable without a seed phrase, and also what makes the backend a trusted party. Team project: the contract and backend layer and the first client were built with a teammate; the integration, the infrastructure fix and the end-to-end verification are the parts claimed here.
## Team-Prik
- Status: deployed
- Active: 06.2026 - ∞ (5m)
- Outcome: An autonomous multi-agent pricing service that reprices live intercity bus trips, with a deterministic validator standing between the language model and every fare it touches.
- Measurement: +0.4 to +0.55% simulated revenue lift, measured on offline backtest replaying real journeys under a linear-demand model, repricing only inventory unsold at the decision lead, against a baseline of rule baseline +0.5 to +0.75%; bounded optimizer ceiling +0.95 to +1.16%
- Stack: Python, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Multi-agent, LRU, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Next.js
- Evidence: Source (repo) https://github.com/rounak-agl/Team-Prik; Architecture and results (writeup) https://github.com/rounak-agl/Team-Prik#readme
Detail:
- Six specialised agents over a shared blackboard, sequenced by a head orchestrator. Agents never call each other; they communicate only through the blackboard, which is what makes the cycle replayable.
- The language model is deliberately off the critical path. If Gemini is slow or unavailable the deterministic baseline carries the cycle, so pricing degrades rather than stalls.
- Designed the in-process tiered memory layer: an O(1) hashmap with a doubly-linked-list LRU, TTL and label invalidation, a bounded undo stack, and per-trip velocity deques. Cut per-cycle database round-trips from 4 to 0 within TTL, for a service firing every five minutes and on every booking.
- Built the 167-to-10 composite-signal pipeline that feeds the agent, fronted by a durable feature store, so a pricing decision reads precomputed signals instead of recomputing them each cycle.
- One validator is the single safety chokepoint: classification moves at most one step, adjustment stays within plus or minus 20%, price never leaves its floor or ceiling, booked seats are never touched. Fuzz-tested to zero bound violations across 38 tests.
Known limitation: The agent reliably beats doing nothing, but in this simulation the language model sits at near-parity with the blunt rules it was meant to improve on - and the project's own README says so. The reason is that the elasticity proxy is confounded and reads inelastic everywhere, which rewards blanket aggressive raises. A demand-controlled elasticity estimate and a live A/B test are the real arbiters, and neither has run yet.
## Astrophage
- Status: shipped
- Active: 04.2026 - ∞ (7m)
- Outcome: A desktop AI assistant whose companions live on the taskbar and drive real OS operations, with every tool call gated by a signed intent token before it is allowed to run.
- Measurement: 27 / 13 blocked patterns / MCP tools, measured on counts rendered from the source arrays themselves, so the page cannot drift from the repository, against a baseline of an ungated assistant executes every command the model proposes
- Stack: JavaScript, Electron, MCP, Gemini 2.5 Flash, ArmorIQ SDK, MongoDB, Node.js
- Evidence: Source (repo) https://github.com/rounak-agl/Udte-Bhawre; Demo videos (demo) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wan_MBSY5Zrw-2k5OIenmlNfSRAtgpsf
Detail:
- An Electron application with three surfaces: taskbar companion overlays, a chat window, and a Control Centre for agents, tasks, connectors and settings.
- A three-stage security gate wraps every tool call. The user's message produces a signed intent plan; each proposed call is validated against that token and a local policy; every decision, allow or block, lands in an audit trail.
- The gate is fail-closed and catches intent drift: if the command actually dispatched does not match the plan the model committed to, the token check severs it before execution.
- A policy engine backs the token with deny-list precedence and deep argument inspection across 27 dangerous command patterns, then an optional allow-list whitelist mode.
- 13 in-process MCP tools - clipboard, email composition, calendar, notifications, file read/write/search and shell - routed through one client manager that also accepts external MCP servers over stdio.
- Six model backends sit behind a single session interface: Gemini, Claude, Codex, Copilot, a generic agent session and a vision session driven by screen capture.
Known limitation: The 27-pattern list is a substring blocklist, and substring blocklists are porous: `rm -r` with two spaces, an absolute `/bin/rm`, or a base64-encoded payload all walk past it. It is worth having as defense in depth, but the signed intent token is the control actually doing the work here, and the honest version of this project treats the pattern list as a seatbelt rather than the brakes.
## Booking Curve Reconstruction
- Status: shipped
- Active: 05.2026 - 06.2026 (2m)
- Outcome: A simulation engine that reconstructs a bus's full booking curve from a sparse ~30% aggregator sample, so a dynamic-pricing engine has a demand signal to price against instead of flying blind.
- Measurement: 5.5 seats mean absolute error at departure, measured on roughly 25% error on a representative 40-trip sample, averaged over five independent ~30% draws, against a baseline of 92% of trips fall inside their predicted band; mean signed error is approximately zero
- Stack: Python, NumPy, SciPy, NHPP, Gaussian copula, CTGAN, Monte Carlo
- Evidence: Source and notebooks (repo) https://github.com/rounak-agl/Freshbus-Simulations; Method and assumptions (writeup) https://github.com/rounak-agl/Freshbus-Simulations#readme
Detail:
- Five layers, each earning its place: a non-homogeneous Poisson process for arrivals, switching to negative binomial where a bucket is overdispersed; a Gaussian copula so buckets correlate instead of being treated as independent; channel stratification that reproduces the aggregator's biased sampling rather than assuming a flat 30%; a conditional tabular GAN to augment thin cohorts; and velocity scaling so a fast-selling bus is not dragged back to the mean.
- 64 intra-day time buckets from 84 hours before departure to 180 minutes after, which is what makes last-day velocity and post-departure walk-ins visible at all.
- Fully vectorised in NumPy: 5,000 simulations across 64 buckets with no Python loops, under a hard capacity cap and a hard floor set by the bookings already observed.
- Kept a transparent baseline alongside the pipelined engine on purpose, so the added complexity could be judged against something simple rather than asserted.
- Made the backtest honest before reporting it: leak-free cohorts predicted from past trips only, peers restricted to departures before the target, and accuracy averaged over five independent samples so the headline does not ride on one lucky draw.
Known limitation: The error is variance, not bias, which is the better failure to have but still 5.5 seats on a 44-seat bus. Velocity scaling is currently held at a setting that is not the one with the best average error, on the argument that it targets the rare fast-selling trips an average over random trips understates - a defensible call, but a call. Cold-start trips on thin routes can fall back to a sparse peer pool, and the method has only been demonstrated on one dense route.
## Warehouse Picklist Optimiser
- Status: shipped
- Active: 11.2025 - 01.2026 (3m)
- Outcome: A picklist generator for high-throughput fulfilment that maximises units picked before fixed loading cut-offs, built around one operational insight about where the time actually goes.
- Measurement: 31 days in <25 min full dataset processed, measured on generating every required CSV picklist end to end, about 1.24 operational days per minute, against a baseline of the schedule is built against fixed cut-offs and picker shift availability, not against a prior system
- Stack: Python, Pandas, Greedy algorithms, Bin packing, Scheduling, Jupyter
- Evidence: Source and notebooks (repo) https://github.com/rounak-agl/Swiggy-Warehouse-Level-Picklist-Generator; Solution report (writeup) https://github.com/rounak-agl/Swiggy-Warehouse-Level-Picklist-Generator#readme
Detail:
- The insight is that every picklist costs a fixed four minutes of setup and teardown - travel to zone, travel to staging - so the way to buy picking time is to consolidate into the longest lists the shift allows rather than many short ones.
- Picklist duration is set by workforce density in each window: 140 minutes while ~80 pickers are on shift, dropping to 50 minutes across the handover and the thinner day shift.
- Greedy construction fills a list until whichever of three hard caps binds first: the time limit, 2,000 units, or 200 kg - reduced to 50 kg for the segregated fragile lists.
- Capacity is computed on a 50-minute hour, an explicit 10-minute buffer for jammed racks and fatigue, so the schedule survives contact with a real floor.
- Look-ahead pulls work forward from future priority pods when the current queue empties, which banks work against the later shifts that have fewer people on them.
- The write-up names the failure points it found rather than hiding them: the two windows where staffing drops are where the schedule is most fragile, and the recommendation is a shift change, not a cleverer heuristic.
Known limitation: This is a greedy heuristic under hard constraints, not an optimum, and it was never measured against one - there is no bound here saying how much throughput a better scheduler would find. The four-minute setup cost and the 50-minute hour are estimates the whole strategy rests on; if either is wrong the consolidation argument weakens with it. Team project: the strategy and the constraint model are shared work.
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