Maharshi Nahar backend & applied AI Resume

Writing

Working notes on backend systems, applied AI, and the parts of shipping software that nobody writes down. Posts land here as I write them.

An app that keeps nothing

Chat, whiteboard, files, screen share and voice for two people, none of it stored, and a server that sleeps between requests.

WebRTC Node MySQL

Letting an agent act, but not without asking

RAION can touch my files, my shell and my inbox, so a permission layer pauses it mid-run and waits for me.

Applied AI LangGraph Multi-agent

Writing a BitTorrent client from scratch

The spec gives you the wire format. Which piece to ask for next, and what to do when a peer sends you garbage, is left to you.

Protocols Threading Python

Teaching Snake to play itself

Eleven booleans, three actions, and a deliberately boring reward. Almost all of the design is in deciding what the agent gets to see.

Reinforcement learning PyTorch

More posts on the way.