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Kishlay Kisu

developer · ml (hobbyist) · indian languages · self-hoster

I'm a pre-final year student from India and I am a curious guy, fast learner and passionate about what I do. I work with Python, Django, FastAPI, (well, anything which gets the job done). I also care deeply about making technology accessible in low resource languages.

I've recently interned at IIT Roorkee under Prof. Sparsh Mittal, working on NLP research around Indic languages. Previously worked at AIATELLA as a Junior Developer, interned at IIT Delhi twice(2022, 2024), came back as a mentor at IIT-D in 2025, and before that, also interned at Copilotly.

Projects

• monkeSearch — fully local, temporally aware semantic file search. Uses embedding models for natural language queries on your local files, no GPU needed. 170+ GitHub stars, collaborated with the LEANN team.
• SpaceTranslate — space launch information in 22+ Indian languages. Built because there was almost no outlet where one could read about upcoming/past space launches in regional languages. (made it for my dad)
• DCDA — Devanagari character detection and analysis. OCR pipeline for Hindi text digitization using Tesseract. Built v1 and later revamped it as v2.
• tesseract-bbox-examples — reverse-engineered Tesseract.js demos to export bounding box data for detected words. Couldn't find examples anywhere, so I wrote them.
• Hindi LLM fine-tuning — currently busy finetuning models for indic languages, and also figuring out benchmarking and evaluations for it. Models on HuggingFace.
• py-artist: Making digital art with code.

and more on my github

Open Source

I do a lot of open source stuff around the internet, not always directly contributing but developing stuff for my own use/ self hosting stuff and trying out new things.
I try to find (or build) new projects which align with my ideas, try to get things working, or pitch ideas or have fun discussions on the forums.
I have some public github gists for some stuff I've built for personal use, its there on my gist profile.

Things I've picked up

Python (a lot of random libraries/ scripts) · Django · FastAPI · Flask · Next.js · Flutter · Docker · Kubernetes/K3s, a bit of AWS, MongoDB · PostgreSQL · Redis · PyTorch · TensorFlow, OpenCV · Scrapy · Golang · Ollama · vLLMs · llama.cpp (selfhosting stuff in general), Tesseract OCR · DICOM processing, Android automation (agents) · Linux server admin, Nginx, Cloudflare stuff · self-hosting (Jellyfin, Minecraft, Syncthing, Time Trackers, LAN Games)

Miscellaneous

• I sometimes forget everything I've done, so I decided to build this.
• I tend to not sound like a robot so I don't really have a "formal" portfolio.
• I used to host a Jellyfin media server and a Minecraft server.
• I like exploring art, digital/ poetry and making them myself. I have a secret art page.
• I email amazing people and many a times they reply. Always trying to not stagnate. Have done a bunch of fun collaborations with people around the world on cool projects.
• I'm surprised by my own ability to pick things up fast — went from Django to tests to FastAPI to mocks in a continuous arc and a plethora of random things in tech I've picked up maybe due to my hyper-activeness or boredom...

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