Independent Builder — Personal Goal Pursuit · Bengaluru

I build products that are hard to explain until you can use them.

AI-native products, creative tools, and production systems — from voice-first worlds and agent-controlled Android to inference platforms operating at scale.

Portrait of Albert Sebastian
Albert SebastianFounder-builder · Bengaluru
AI productsCreative tooling Agent systemsProduction ML Founder experimentsAI products Creative toolingAgent systems

01 / Selected work

Things I am building.

Nine products and research threads across storytelling, local agents, commerce, recommendations, civic technology, and observability.

Hackathon build A generated science-fiction starship title card from Voicebound
Interactive fiction · AI-native game 2026 · Hackathon build

Voicebound

01 / 09

A voice-first story that listens back and paints itself around the player. A live narrator, interruptible speech, multi-character voices, and a high-throughput image pipeline turn every playthrough into its own world.

  • Gemini Live
  • Generative image
  • Next.js
  • Postgres
  • WebSocket
Personal research · Android systems 2026 · Active research

Mod OS

02 / 09

An agent-controllable Android stack: observe the accessibility tree, reason locally, and act through a structured daemon and CLI. Verified end to end on an emulator, with an on-device Gemma loop and a path toward a custom ROM.

  • Android
  • Kotlin
  • Gemma
  • JSON-RPC
  • Accessibility
Desktop AI · Indic workflows 2026 · Working prototype

Setu

03 / 09

An Indic AI desktop studio for the documents Indians actually work with. It reads scanned legal files, detects language, runs OCR and translation, and lets an agent orchestrate the workflow without pretending a demo is live.

  • Tauri
  • React
  • Sarvam AI
  • Agent tools
  • Playwright
In production Love Made Edible interactive cake menu showing a red velvet cake
Commerce platform · Bakery business 2026 · In production

Love Made Edible

04 / 09

A digital operating surface for a Bengaluru bakery: interactive menus, ordering journeys, consulting, learning content, analytics, and search-led discovery brought together as one evolving business system.

  • Next.js
  • Sanity
  • Commerce
  • Analytics
  • SEO
3D creative SaaS · Bakery operations 2026 · Active build

Cake Studio

05 / 09

A browser-based 3D cake design studio for working bakers. Build multi-tier cakes, shape coatings, place decorations, create piping motifs, save versions, undo changes, and turn a visual design into an operational quote.

  • React Three Fiber
  • Next.js
  • Three.js
  • Postgres
  • Better Auth
Recommendation system · Consumer product 2026 · Pre-launch

GoodWatch

06 / 09

A movie recommendation system that starts with taste, mood, and streaming availability — not a popularity list. The engine combines intent classification, semantic retrieval, explainable lenses, and first-party preference signals.

  • FastAPI
  • pgvector
  • Gemini
  • BGE-M3
  • OpenTelemetry
v0.3 Ray desktop command center with telemetry, radar, tasks, weather, and activity panels
Desktop assistant · Local workspace 2026 · v0.3

Ray

07 / 09

A JARVIS-inspired desktop command center where chat, tasks, plans, weather, system telemetry, and Google tools live together. Widgets move freely and releases update through a signed channel.

  • Tauri
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Local-first
  • Tool use
Field experiment ChaloChallan launch graphic reading Report, Verify, Reward
Civic technology · Public experiment 2026 · Field experiment

ChaloChallan

08 / 09

A citizen reporting experiment for traffic violations in Bengaluru. Evidence is checked, outcomes are tracked, reporters stay private, and rewards are tied to confirmed action rather than uploads.

  • Next.js
  • Verification
  • Civic tech
  • Privacy
  • E2E tests
Prototype Pathways graph explorer tracing generated and edited images through a lineage graph
Developer infrastructure · Observability 2026 · Prototype

Pathways

09 / 09

Image lineage observability for generative systems. It records generation, edit, and variation flows as a searchable graph, with ingestion SDKs, asynchronous processing, OpenTelemetry support, and an operations UI.

  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • React Flow
  • Postgres
  • OpenTelemetry

02 / Professional experience

My work at Dashverse.

Sr. Product Engineer · Dec 2023—May 2026

I was employed at Dashverse as a Sr. Product Engineer from December 2023 to May 2026, contributing across the product and platform layers behind its AI creation tools — from the interface to the inference fleet.

11% → <1%generation failures
targeted performance gain
30%+infrastructure cost reduction
320 hrsmonthly work automated
A

Product systems

AI creator suite

Led product engineering across Studio, Frameo AI, Remix, and Frameo Pro — evolving image generation into complete video and audio storytelling workflows.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Streaming UX
  • Agent workflows
B

Platform systems

Inference & ML platform

Built and improved model dispatch, queue-based pipelines, spend tracking, retries, autoscaling, and multi-provider inference across the gateway and ML stack.

  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • Redis
  • LiteLLM
C

Business systems

Billing & operations

Shipped organization plans, subscriptions, checkout, revenue analytics, and administrative tools that connected product usage to dependable business operations.

  • Payments
  • Analytics
  • Admin systems
  • Reliability

Dashverse was my employer. This is a public-safe summary of work I directly contributed to; no private code, customer data, or internal details are shown.

03 / Career archive

The work before
this chapter.

I did not arrive at software through a straight line. The through-line is building systems, teams, and businesses around difficult real-world problems.

PROFILE_ARCHIVE / ALBERT_SEBASTIAN STATUS: ACTIVE LOC: BLR_12.9716°N
2019—2023
MASAI

From educator to product and platform leader

Creator — Interview Prime · Director — Business Head — Platforms Engineering and Outcomes · Director Curriculum · Lead Software Development Engineer · JavaScript Developer · Technical Faculty MERN, SDE

Progressed from technical faculty and Lead SDE to Director of Curriculum, then Business Head for Platforms Engineering and Outcomes. Built learning programs, led large multidisciplinary teams, and turned recurring operating problems into internal products.

AI interviewer · 2,600+ interviews Designed to scale to 30k / month Fraud reduction · 90% Curriculum org · ~80 people
2017—2020
WISENSE + CONSULTING

Connected physical operations to software

Core Team, WiSense Technologies · Independent Consultant · Consultant and Freelancer

Built applications on a custom wireless-mesh stack for agriculture, cold chain, asset tracking, water, grain storage, and factory operations — while helping clients turn ambiguous requirements into working systems.

IoT systemsWireless meshClient delivery
2016—2019
HUNGRY TABLE

Learned the founder job on the ground

Co-Founder

Co-founded and operated a food-and-beverage business, owning finance, marketing, daily operations, and a team of 8–12. A practical education in customers, cash flow, people, and the distance between an idea and a business.

Co-founderOperationsTeam building
2014—2019
REALIZ3D + EARLY ENGINEERING

Started with atoms before pixels

Additive Manufacturing Engineer · Design & Operations Engineer · Graduate Engineering Trainee, Tekpath

Worked across product design, additive manufacturing, 3D printing, injection moulding, and contract manufacturing. Helped take client concepts from sketches to manufacturable objects and later moved the business toward online commerce.

Product designManufacturing3D printing

04 / Build log

More experiments,
fewer pitch decks.

Smaller products, operational tools, and open-source contributions. Some ship; some answer a question and make room for the next one.

01 · 2026

Personal Finance Agent

A local-first finance assistant over Actual Budget, available through web, Telegram, and voice notes.

Private build
02 · 2026

StoreChef

Multi-tenant inventory and kitchen-store operations for hospitals, with a Go API and Postgres source of truth.

Phase 1
03 · 2026

Mint

AI recruiting platform for job workflows, candidate matching, interviews, invitations, and reporting.

Product build
04 · 2026

Kite Trading Agent

File-based market research and signal agent with explicit risk gates, journaling, and live execution disabled by default.

Research
05 · 2026

Route Weather Planner

Driving-route planning with hourly Open-Meteo forecasts mapped to the journey.

Prototype
06 · 2026

Bakery Calculator

Operational dashboards and calculators for the Love Made Edible business stack.

Internal tool
07 · 2026

Hermes Agent

Open-source contribution preventing email loops by rejecting non-allowlisted senders before dispatch.

OSS contribution

05 / Contact

Building something
strange and useful?

I like ambitious product problems, fast feedback loops, and teams that care about the last ten percent. Tell me what you are trying to make real.

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