vita.yaml

---
personal:
  name: Prashant Sinha
  title: Lead Developer
info:
  homepage: https://noop.pw
  github: https://github.com/prashnts
  keybase: https://keybase.io/prashnts
  email: prashant@noop.pw
  mobile: '0769822836'
  location: Paris, France
  twitter: https://twitter.com/prashnts
  printables: https://printables.com/@prashnts
  google_scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dQ3rdCwAAAAJ&hl=en
  linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/prashnts/

  spoken_languages:
    - label: English
      level: Bilingual
      icon: 🇬🇧
    - label: French
      level: C1 (Advanced)
      icon: 🇫🇷
    - label: Hindi
      level: Bilingual
      icon: 🇮🇳

cover: |
  I am a software developer based in Paris. I currently lead Partoo's AI infrastructure,
  where my team builds and ships agentic systems handling hundreds of thousands of
  requests per week. My work focuses on using programming, mathematics, and design as 
  tools to solve interesting and challenging problems across a wide array of 
  domains: Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Scientific Computing,
  Web Applications, and Embedded systems. I have published peer-reviewed research in
  computational biology and genetics, and I maintain several open-source projects in
  my spare time. I also enjoy designing and printing functional 3D models.

  <!-- kagi/quick -->



experience:
  - company: Partoo
    location: Paris
    professional: yes
    dates:
      from: '2024-01-01'
    position: Lead Developer
    description: |
      # Agentic Architecture & AI Chatbots

      Leads a team of three owning Partoo's AI infrastructure. Spec'd and developed Jim, an AI chatbot
      (OpenAI Chat Completions API) with a custom DSL for tool calling, memory, and context compaction.
      Authored the company-wide Agentic Architecture spec — framework-agnostic infrastructure for model
      management, usage tracking, a real-time dashboard, and conversation memory. Built on Pydantic AI,
      it enabled ~10 agents in production handling 300k requests/week.
      
      Currently being reworked into an AI Gateway. Managed sprints, product specs with PM, and team repositories.

      # Feedback Management Analytics

      Spec'd and implemented an analytics dashboard for surveys replacing a third-party tool, powered
      by ClickHouse. Fixed critical SQL bugs — one fix reduced query memory usage from >4 GB to <300 MB.

      <!-- kagi/quick -->

    links:
      - title: Landing Page
        url: https://www.partoo.co/fr/entreprises/ai-chatbot/

  - company: Partoo
    location: Paris
    professional: yes
    dates:
      from: '2021-06-28'
      till: '2023-12-31'
    position: Full Stack Developer
    description: |
      # Business Messaging

      Developed real-time integrations for Google Maps, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Grew from
      executing sprint tasks to writing technical strategies, with a track record of on-time releases
    website: https://www.partoo.co/en/

  - company: Learning Planet Institute
    location: Paris
    professional: yes
    dates:
      from: '2018-10-08'
      till: '2021-06-25'
    position: Full Stack Developer
    tags:
      - Platform Developer
      - UI/X Design
    website: https://www.learningplanetinstitute.org/en/
    links:
      - title: Official Project Blog
        url: https://projects.learningplanetinstitute.org/projects/map-your-online-learning/summary
      - title: Landing Page (Archive)
        url: https://welearn-preview.netlify.app/pages/onboarding.html
    description: |
      # WeLearn - A tool for collective learning

      I designed and built the APIs that power a machine-learning model capable of classifying web
      pages into Wikipedia concepts, allowing users to map and explore their learning pathways.
      I also created an interactive concept‑map visualization that uses spatial cues to display a
      user’s knowledge landscape and highlight similar concepts for exploration. Finally, I
      developed browser extensions that capture web pages as users browse, feeding the data into
      the classification pipeline in real time.

      <!-- kagi/gpt-oss-120B -->


  - company: Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, ESPCI
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-05-22'
      till: '2018-09-22'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Hydrodynamics at micro scales
      - Fluid Dynamics
      - Theoretical Biophysics
    website: https://www.pmmh.espci.fr
    links:
      - title: Presentation
        url: https://noop.pw/var/pmmh-poster.pdf
    description: |
      # Hydrodynamics of Super-Paramagnetic Micro-Beads

      My work here was to capture the motion of the micro beads undergoing
      attraction due to an external magnetic field. Based on this it is possible
      to quantify hydrodynamic drag forces on the beads.

      Using open source tools `trackpy` and `scikit-image`, I developed an
      image processing pipeline to isolate, track, and calculate motion dynamics
      from the frames. We reached an average frame rate of ~800 fps.

  - company: Laboratoire Jean Perrin, UPMC
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2018-01-22'
      till: '2018-04-22'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Theoretical Biophysics
      - Optical Tracking
      - Mechanotransduction
    link_dead: http://www.labos.upmc.fr/ljp
    links:
      - title: Project Repository
        url: https://github.com/prashnts/corvus-drive
      - title: Youtube Video
        url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gTXb3rWKzA
    description: |
      # The Mechanical Sense of Paramecium

      As a research intern, I developed high-frequency, real-time image analysis
      and hardware control pipeline to track long trajectories of _Paramecium_.
      I wrote a driver for the microscope stage, and a high-speed image
      aquisition and processing (~50fps) tool. Using these software we were able
      to follow the trajectory of moving _Paramecium_.

  - company: Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Diderot
    location: Paris
    dates:
      from: '2017-10-09'
      till: '2018-01-09'
    position: Research Intern
    tags:
      - Phyllotaxis
      - Plant Biology
      - Projection Geometry
    website: http://www.msc.univ-paris-diderot.fr
    links:
      - title: Presentation
        url: https://noop.pw/var/phylotaxis-presentation.pdf
    description: |
      # Study of Diversity in Phyllotactic Patterns

      Phyllotaxis is the arrangement of lateral organs in plants. In this
      project we attempt to explain the origin of emergent patterns,
      transitions, and irregularities in such arrangements. Using cylindrical
      projection unrolling and unwarping, I developed an image analysis pipeline
      allowing better study of complicated plant organs.

  - company: Agora Health
    location: London (Remote)
    professional: yes
    dates:
      from: '2016-02-08'
      till: '2018-04-01'
    position: Full Stack Developer
    tags:
      - Machine Learning
      - Web Development
    link_dead: https://agorahealth.org.uk
    links:
      - title: Landing Page (Archive)
        url: https://web.archive.org/web/20210622111249/https://agorahealth.org.uk/
    description: |
      # Personalised Medical Events, Conferences, and Courses Recommendation for Doctors at NHS, UK

      - Developed the algorithm for classification of events into medical specialities.
      - Integrated the classification system into the web app.
      - Implemented an event recommendation engine leveraging Elasticsearch and stored features.
      - Wrote a framework for event data aggregation from multiple NHS websites.

  - company: Oxyent Technologies
    location: New Delhi
    professional: yes
    dates:
      from: '2016-07-01'
      till: '2016-09-01'
    position: Summer Intern
    link_dead: http://oxyent.com
    tags:
      - Computer Vision
      - Information Extraction
    links:
      - title: ECG Analysis (Repository)
        url: https://github.com/prashnts/ekgstore-beta
      - title: Document Analysis (Repository)
        url: https://github.com/prashnts/apollo-cad/tree/master
    description: |
      # Computer Vision and Information Extraction

      Developed and shipped a utility for digitizing waveforms and
      extracting metadata from `ECG` reports. It is being used at Brigham and
      Women’s Hospital, Boston for processing more than a million patient records.

      Also worked on extracting normalized tabular data from scanned
      medical records. Key challenges here involved handling skewed,
      desaturated and otherwise low quality images.

  - company: Survaider
    location: New Delhi
    professional: yes
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2016-02-01'
    position: Developer and UI/UX Designer
    link_dead: http://survaider.com
    links:
      - title: Survey Builder (Repository)
        url: https://github.com/prashnts/survaider-builder
      - title: Landing Page (Archive)
        url: https://web.archive.org/web/20190829213915/https://www.survaider.com/
    tags:
      - Backend and REST API
      - Client Interface
      - Analytics
    description: |
      # Survaider Web App and Survey Builder

      Developed a web app backend and REST API in Python.

      Designed and developed a web based survey builder tool which was later
      integrated into the core application.

  - company: Design Innovation Centre
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-06-15'
      till: '2015-08-29'
    position: Summer Intern
    tags:
      - Machine Learning
      - Time Series Analysis
      - Signal Processing
    links:
      - title: Paper Draft
        url: https://noop.pw/var/har-paper-draft.pdf
      - title: Presentation and Repository
        url: https://github.com/prashnts/MPU-9250
    description: |
      # Human Activity Recognition from Acceleration data Under Naturalistic Conditions

      The goal of this project was to develop a system for recognition
      of low level human activities, such as Walking, Running, Sitting, etc.,
      using a single accelerometer.

      Using supervised learning method, we trained a Random Forest
      Classifier using feature vectors obtained via our model. We
      were able to produce an accuracy of `95%` through our model.

  # - company: University of California and Stanford
  #   location: Santa Cruz (Remote)
  #   dates:
  #     from: '2015-01-01'
  #     till: '2015-06-01'
  #   position: Research Associate
  #   tags:
  #     - Data Scraping
  #     - Data Processing
  #   description: |
  #     # Aspiring Researcher Challenge

  #     As a research associate, I was part of the team which was
  #     responsible for developing a large, online experiment to study
  #     the wisdom of the crowd where I formulated the algorithm for
  #     scraping and formatting raw data off multiple crowdfunding
  #     platforms.

  - company: Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi
    location: New Delhi
    dates:
      from: '2015-01-01'
      till: '2016-04-01'
    position: Undergrad Research
    tags:
      - Network Analysis
      - Computational Biology
      - Mathematical Modelling
    links:
      - title: Presentation
        url: https://miriam.noop.pw/
      - title: Analysis (Repository)
        url: https://github.com/prashnts/mir-to-gene
      - title: Presentation (Source)
        url: https://github.com/prashnts/miriam-explore
    description: |
      # Modelling and Network Analysis of Intronic miRNA Mediated Gene Expression Regulation

      In this project, we developed a mathematical model for gene expression
      regulation via intronic micro `RNAs`, based on emperical data and
      experimental observations at IGIB.

      As a part of study, we've also generated a `miRNA <=> mRNA` target network
      using various available databases.

  # - company: IamSME of India, PHD Chamber of Commerce
  #   location: New Delhi
  #   dates:
  #     from: '2014-05-15'
  #     till: '2014-08-20'
  #   position: Summer Intern
  #   tags:
  #   links:
  #     - title: Thunderbird Sync Extension
  #       url: https://github.com/prashnts/thunder-sync/tree/master
  #   description: |
  #     Developed an open-source and modular `ERP` system and `API` sub-system.

  # - company: Laboratory for Pattern Engineering, University of Delhi
  #   location: New Delhi
  #   dates:
  #     from: '2014-02-10'
  #     till: '2015-12-25'
  #   position: Research Associate
  #   tags:
  #   links:
  #     - title: Archive Page
  #       url: https://web.archive.org/web/20150724221814/http://pattern.ducic.ac.in/
  #     - title: ERP System (Repository)
  #       url: https://github.com/prashnts/TwoDotSeven
  #   description: |
  #     Built a classification system for geospacial features between
  #     texts originated in different continents. Other responsibilities included
  #     design and development of several web portals, graphic designing, media
  #     and publishing tasks.

# talks_and_workshops:
#   - conference: FOSSASIA 2017
#     location: Singapore
#     dates:
#       from: '2017-03-17'
#       till: '2017-03-19'
#     type: Talk
#     tags:
#       - Python
#       - Open Source
#     description: |
#       # Alohomora: Unlocking Magical Bits in Python

#       In this talk at FOSSASIA Summit, I gave a presentation covering several
#       advance patterns in the Python programming language. In the presentation I
#       introduced the audience with Metaclasses, Decorators and Patching.

  # - conference: West College
  #   location: Glasgow, Scotland
  #   dates:
  #     from: '2015-07-14'
  #     till: '2015-07-19'
  #   type: Workshop
  #   description: |
  #     # Game Development Workshop under UK-India Education and Research Initiative

  # - conference: Autonomi
  #   location: University of Delhi
  #   dates:
  #     from: '2015-02-28'
  #     till: '2015-03-01'
  #   type: Talk
  #   description: |
  #     # Robotics Bootcamp

  #     Delivered sessions on Arduino programming, DAC, ADC and PWM.

education:
  - institute: Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires
    location: Université Paris Descartes
    position: Masters
    dates:
      from: '2017-09-04'
      till: '2018-10-04'
    degree: Approches Interdisciplinaires du Vivant
    major: Applied research expertise through placements in scientific labs
    minor: Research Ethics and its associated methodologies

  - institute: Cluster Innovation Centre
    location: University of Delhi
    position: Undergrad
    dates:
      from: '2013-08-10'
      till: '2017-07-05'
    degree: B.Tech. (IT and Mathematical Innovations)
    major: Information Technology
    minor: Mathematics, Systems Biology

skills:
  Development:
    - [Python, 5]
    - [Agentic AI, 4]
    - [JavaScript, 5]
    - [Linux, 3]
    - [Embedded Systems, 3]
    - [Distributed Computing, 3]
  Design:
    - [Systems Design, 3]
    - [3D Printing, 5]
    - [Hardware Prototyping, 3]
    - [UI/UX, 4]
  Misc:
    - [Scientific Computing, 4]
    - [Reverse Engineering, 2]
    - [Clean-Room Design, 2]
    - [DevOps, 2]


open_source:
  - repo: prashnts/limn
    links:
      - title: Youtube Demo
        link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6deuipWtRt8
      - title: Hackaday Blog
        link: https://hackaday.io/project/205431-limn-pen-plotter-with-toolchanger
      # - title: 3D Printable Project
      #   link: https://www.printables.com/model/1786450-limn-pen-plotter-with-automatic-tool-changer-parti
      - title: Article on Hackster.io
        link: https://www.hackster.io/news/someone-finally-put-an-automatic-toolchanger-on-a-pen-plotter-feaafe662e9e
    description: |
      # Pen Plotter with automatic Toolchanger

      The plotter can use up to 5 pen/tools per session and has fully automated tool calibration.
      [Build details available on Hackaday](https://hackaday.io/project/205431-limn-pen-plotter-with-toolchanger).
    

  - repo: prashnts/disinfo
    links:
      - title: 3D Printable Project
        link: https://www.printables.com/model/1609188-disinfo-128x196-pixel-led-matrix-array
    description: |
      # DisInfo: (Info)rmation (Dis)play

      A weekend project for past couple of years, Disinfo tries to make it easier
      to build animated, interactive, and physical dashboards. I use it as a sandbox
      to explore and better understand existing technologies and patterns, such as Flex
      layout, declarative and composable view components, and interfacing with external
      APIs while maintaing performance on resource constrained devices. In my tests
      the system easily achieves 60fps on a Raspberry Pi 5.

  - repo: prashnts/pybloomfiltermmap3
    description: |
      # PyBloomFilter: Fast, Memory Mapped Bloom Filter

      The goal of `PyBloomFilter` is to provide a fast, simple, scalable and
      correct library for Bloom Filters in Python. I've been maintaining this package
      since 2016.

  - repo: prashnts/hues
    description: |
      # Hues: Colored terminal text made easy for Python

      Hues is a Python package which facilitates printing ANSI encoded text to
      terminal in unix-like systems.

  - repo: prashnts/metaRNA
    description: |
      # metaRNA: Find target sites for the miRNAs in genomic sequences

      metaRNA finds potential target sites for the microRNAs in genomic
      sequences. It is built on miRanda, an algorithm for detection and ranking
      of the targets of microRNA.

  # - repo: agora-team/elasticsearch-synonyms
  #   description: |
  #     # Elasticsearch-Synonyms: Utilities for working with Synonym Filter in Elasticsearch

  #     This repository contains a curated dataset of synonyms in `Solr` Format.
  #     These synonyms can be used for Elasticsearch Synonym Token Filter
  #     configuration. It provides a tool to lint and validate the synonym files.


publications:
  - title: Protein engineering and de novo designing of a biocatalyst
    authors: M Kaushik, P Sinha, P Jaiswal, S Mahendru, K Roy, S Kukreti
    journal: Journal of Molecular Recognition
    year: 2016
    doi: '10.1002/jmr.2546'
    pdf: https://noop.pw/var/kaushik2016.pdf
  - title: Intronic miRNA mediated gene expression regulation controls protein crowding inside the cell
    authors: P Sinha, P Jaiswal, AK Jainarayanan, SK Brahmachari
    journal: Gene
    year: 2018
    doi: '10.1016/j.gene.2018.08.082'
    pdf_closed: https://noop.pw/var/miriam.pdf
  - title: Meta-analysis of genomic variants and gene expression data in schizophrenia suggests the potential need for adjunctive therapeutic interventions for neuropsychiatric disorders
    authors: SA Chellappa, AK Pathak, P Sinha, AK Jainarayanan, S Jain, SK Brahmachari
    journal: Journal of genetics
    year: 2019
    doi: '10.1007/s12041-019-1101-6'
    pdf: https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jgen/098/0060
  - title: Investigating the "wisdom of crowds" at scale
    authors: A Mysore et al.
    journal: ACM UIST
    year: 2015
    doi: 10.1145/2815585.2815725
    pdf: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2815585.2815725