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I'm Keshav — Head of Engineering @ Popular Digital AI. Rust, Python, Linux, distributed systems, and local-first AI. Open-source enthusiast. On and ever upward.
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Hi, I'm Keshav Ashiya, an Engineer from India and currently Head of Engineering at Popular Digital AI. Over 6+ years I've built scalable enterprise applications, distributed systems, data pipelines, and workflow automation. I focus on microservices architecture, real-time event processing, and local-first AI tooling — these days mostly in Rust and Python.
- Backend: Python (FastAPI), Rust, Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Microservices
- Frontend: React, React Native, Redux, TypeScript, JavaScript, Electron
- Data & AI: ETL pipelines, real-time event processing, Kafka, computer vision (YOLO11m), RAG, local-first AI
- DevOps & Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Linux
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis
- Other: System Design, Software Architecture, API Design, Agile
- docify — local-first research assistant with long-term memory · Python
- brain — give your AI a hippocampus: a local-first memory OS · Rust
- codesage — CLI code-intelligence with RAG · Python
- inspectify — vehicle damage detection with YOLO11m · Python
- monad — a compiled identity kernel (Rust / WASM)
- 💬 Ask me about anything here




