_ aniketdas.dev · v2026

ANIKET DAS

Engineer Builder Writer Photographer Tinkerer

Currently_

Building PixelGhost publicly

Developing a Smart LED Controller for "dumb" strips

Helping scale Jahnavi's business at muramallajahnaviartistry.com

Learning portrait photography

Projects

WHAT I'VE
BUILT

01

Pixel-Ghost

AGPLv3 · FastAPI + React/TypeScript · Web Hosting

Modular steganography toolkit. Pluggable encoding architecture (LSB, DCT, DFT), async multiprocessing task queue, Docker + CI/CD pipeline. What I think software design looks like when it has room to breathe.

FastAPIReactTypeScriptDockerCI/CDNetworking
pixelghost.aniketdas.dev → GitHub →
Live
02

Homomorphic Encryption

⭐ 41 stars · Springer LNEE Vol. 825 · 700+ reads

Privacy-preserving cloud image editing using Paillier's Additive Homomorphic Cryptosystem. Edit images on a remote server without ever decrypting them. Presented at ICIA 2020, published February 2022.

PythonCryptographyPaillier HE
Springer → GitHub (41★) →
Published
03

Jahnavi's Website

Commercial Deployment · muramallajahnaviartistry.com

Scaling a premium makeup artistry business. A place to host a high-performance portfolio, and SEO-optimized architecture. Helping a growing brand own its digital presence.

HTML5Web HostingCSS3 [Vanilla]SEO
muramallajahnaviartistry.com →
Live
04

IoT LED Controller

MicroPython · MQTT · ESP32 · Local-First

A cloud-connected bridge for "dumb" LED strips. Features a responsive web dashboard, color-tracking intelligence, and MQTT fallback for remote control. Simulates physical button presses via hardware-level signals.

MicroPythonESP32MQTTHTTP APIIoT
GitHub Repository →
WIP

Work

EXPERIENCE

Dell Technologies · Software Engineer II

AI & Backend Engineering

  • Built a semantic retrieval / RAG-style system for Jira deduplication across 4 engineering teams — swapped TF-IDF for BERT-based dense embeddings, integrated with the Jira API, validated quality with team leads.
  • Active open source contributor across Dell's IaC ecosystem: terraform-provider-objectscale, ansible-powerscale, ansible-powerstore, python-powerstore, dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules. Terraform provider dev, Ansible collection maintenance, cross-version compatibility.
  • Contributing to Dell's AIDP (AI Data Platform) Engine currently, infrastructure and backend services, focusing on retrieval quality and customer focused workflows.
PythonGoFastAPIPyTorchBERTRAGTerraformAnsibleDockerLinux

Jan 2023 — Present

Bengaluru, India

Bosch Global Software Technologies · Project Trainee

Embedded Linux & Multimedia

  • Developed and deployed custom embedded Linux distributions for consumer electronics, enhancing multimedia playback capabilities.
  • Engineered hardware-accelerated multimedia pipelines for video playback on the NXP i.MX 8M Nano Evaluation Kit.
  • Benchmarked six video codecs to optimise pipeline efficiency.
LinuxEmbedded SystemsGStreamerNXP i.MX 8M

Jun — Dec 2022

Bengaluru, India

M.Tech · Computer Science

BIT Mesra  · CGPA 8.63 · 2021–2023

B.Tech · CSE

KIIT Bhubaneswar  · CGPA 8.34 · 2017–2021

Credentials

CERTIFICATES
& LICENSES

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Applied Natural Language Processing

Issued Jul 2023

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Jupyter

Coursera

Sampling People, Networks and Records

Issued Apr 2021

ID: TP63QEZKBM8D
Sampling People Analytics

Coursera

Introduction to People Analytics

Issued Mar 2021

ID: D4SPPS3Z9E6W
People Analytics

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Fundamentals of Machine Learning

Issued Jan 2019

ID: KIIT/KONNEXIONS/2018-19/AUTUMN/TC/025
Machine Learning Jupyter

MISC

THE WEIRD
SECTION

Recurring themes. Symbols. Personal mythology. Doesn't make sense? Doesn't have to.

ChronArchitect

Time as raw material, not constraint. An old username which turned into an identity across a lot of projects.

🪓

The Kratos Thread

Carrying the weight of who you were into the chapter you're writing now. The choice to alter fate anyway.

🌿

Absurdism

Post-nihilism. The universe doesn't care which is exactly what makes your choices matter. Neitzsche diagnosed the problem left us to find a solution. Camus was pretty close.

🔭

The Observatory

Future \ artifact. A telescope. A place to feel appropriately small. In progress.

📡

Homelabbing

Decentralised comms as philosophy. Don't depend on infrastructure you don't own. Has led to a lot of interesting shit.

Timeline

EVIDENCE OF
EXISTENCE

2026
Blog site launched — blog.aniketdas.dev
Personal website launched — aniketdas.dev
Jahnavi Artistry website launched — muramallajahnaviartistry.com
pixelghost.aniketdas.dev developed; AGPLv3 steganography toolkit
ESP32 Smart LED Controller — Cloud-connected lighting bridge
First portrait photography shoot
2025
MSI GP63 resurrected; thermal repaste, battery swap, OC
NVMe enclosure firmware modified via MPtool
2023
Joined Dell Technologies full-time — SWE II
M.Tech completed — BIT Mesra, CGPA 9.21
2022
Springer paper published — 41 stars, 700+ reads
Bosch internship — embedded Linux, multimedia pipelines
2021
B.Tech completed — KIIT, CGPA 8.34
2012–17

Early Signals

🏆 Gold Medal, Tata Building India Essay Competition
🥈 Silver Medal, Horlicks Wiz Kids Creative Writing
📖 Co-authored a short story published in Braided Tales
🧠 Won the Ojass Tech Quiz at NIT Jamshedpur

Looking back, most of the interests that define me today were already visible here: writing, technology, storytelling, and an unhealthy tendency to disappear into rabbit holes.

Inventory

WHAT
EXISTS

Not goals. Not plans. Things currently true. An antidote to the brain that only tracks deficits.

A Honda Civic I got to mod the hell out of.

Pixel-Ghost — publicly deployed, WIP

Springer paper — 41 stars, 700+ reads

Guitar. in hand, learning from zero

ESP32 Smart LED Controller. Cloud-connected lighting

Specialty coffee setup at home

Sony α6100. learning to see

Jahnavi's Website — muramallajahnaviartistry.com (Go check it out!)

MSI GP63. fully resurrected now runs as the central nervous system for my home network

This website.

Outside Work

THE REST
OF IT

Specialty Coffee

6+ years in. Espresso machine, French Press, Moka Pot in had, sourcing single-origins, strong opinions about extraction ratios and water temperature. Not a hobby; a practice.

🎸

Guitar

Started from absolute zero, 2026. Vault Strat-style. Trinity curriculum. A deliberate exercise in learning something the slow, patient way.

📷

Photography

Sony α6100. Learning to see before learning to shoot. Moody, cinematic — more interested in light and mood than gear.

🏍️

Motorcycles

Riding and modifying. The intersection of mechanical understanding and controlled risk. Things work better when you understand how they're built.

🔧

Hardware & Electronics

18650 cell recovery, firmware flashing, ESP32 boards (Smart LED Controllers), NVMe enclosures. If it has a PCB, it's fair game. Use the things you own.

Contact

LET'S
TALK.

Interesting conversations welcome — AI systems, roles, collaborations, hardware problems, coffee recommendations in Bengaluru.