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Validate ideas, find unique resources, and explore similar projects—all in one platform.\""},{"id":"bitcamp-2024.prize","starId":"bitcamp-2024","text":"Won Best Cybersecurity Track Hack at Bitcamp 2024 (April 2024) with Moth Challenge."},{"id":"bitcamp-2024.what","starId":"bitcamp-2024","text":"From the Devpost tagline: \"a dynamic cyber security puzzle platform. 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Runs locally on MemryX NPU hardware\"."},{"id":"calhacks-12.prize","starId":"calhacks-12","text":"Won \"Elastic: Best use of the Elastic Agent Builder on a Serverless instance\" at Cal Hacks 12.0 (October 2025) with AgentOverflow."},{"id":"calhacks-12.what","starId":"calhacks-12","text":"Devpost tagline: \"Stack Overflow 2.0: break the prompt spiral-> jump straight to the proven fix.\""},{"id":"berkeley-ai-hackathon-2026.prize","starId":"berkeley-ai-hackathon-2026","text":"Won Best Compression Model for The Token Company at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026 (June 20-21, 2026) with Re:Compress."},{"id":"berkeley-ai-hackathon-2026.what","starId":"berkeley-ai-hackathon-2026","text":"Devpost tagline: \"A query-aware rewriting layer that extends compression into the regime deletion can't reach — distilled into a 1.5B model, then carried into multi-turn conversations.\""},{"id":"berkeley-ai-hackathon-2026.paper","starId":"berkeley-ai-hackathon-2026","text":"The same work became the ReCompress preprint on Zenodo (June 21, 2026).","source":{"label":"Preprint (Zenodo DOI)","url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20786357"}},{"id":"compiled-11.prize","starId":"compiled-11","text":"Won the Hexclave award ($1,000) at c0mpiled-11, the YC Startup School Hackathon, with Cited."},{"id":"compiled-11.event","starId":"compiled-11","text":"c0mpiled-11 was hosted by Transpose on July 24, 2026; the organizer's write-up lists Cited among the prize winners."},{"id":"compiled-13.prize","starId":"compiled-13","text":"Won the Hexclave award ($1,000) at c0mpiled-13, Startup School Hackathon II, with Swiper No Swiping."},{"id":"compiled-13.event","starId":"compiled-13","text":"c0mpiled-13 was hosted by Transpose on July 25, 2026; the organizer's write-up lists Swiper No Swiping among the prize winners."},{"id":"zero-human-company-hackathon.prize","starId":"zero-human-company-hackathon","text":"Won 3rd place in Best use of Render at The World's First Zero Human Company Hackathon by Terac (August 15, 2026) with AdLayer."},{"id":"zero-human-company-hackathon.what","starId":"zero-human-company-hackathon","text":"The ad network for the answer layer: disclosed placements in llms.txt, and measurement of whether the label survives the model."},{"id":"zero-human-company-hackathon.count","starId":"zero-human-company-hackathon","text":"Kartikey is a 12x hackathon winner; AdLayer (August 2026) was the twelfth win."},{"id":"cara.role","starId":"cara","text":"Member of Technical Staff at Cara since June 2026."},{"id":"cara.where","starId":"cara","text":"Based in the San Francisco Bay Area."},{"id":"raya-health.role","starId":"raya-health","text":"Founding Engineer at Raya Health from February to May 2026, in the HF0 W26 residency batch."},{"id":"raya-health.built","starId":"raya-health","text":"Built Raya Health from the ground up and shipped product end to end across full-stack, infrastructure and AI."},{"id":"coldstart.role","starId":"coldstart","text":"Software Engineer Intern at ColdStart, January to May 2025, in State College, PA."},{"id":"coldstart.work","starId":"coldstart","text":"A software engineering internship contributing to product development and full-stack engineering."},{"id":"intel.role","starId":"intel","text":"Internship Trainee at Intel Corporation from August 2020 to May 2021, then Apprentice from May to July 2021."},{"id":"intel.pipeline","starId":"intel","text":"Built an ML training pipeline (TensorFlow, Python, Docker, AWS) that cut model deployment time by 33%, from 3 days to 2."},{"id":"intel.vision","starId":"intel","text":"Built a computer-vision chip-defect detector (OpenCV, PyTorch) with 97% accuracy on 100,000+ test images."},{"id":"intel.nlp","starId":"intel","text":"Built a BERT-based classifier handling 1,000+ technical specs a day at 90% accuracy."},{"id":"lunar-autonomy-challenge.role","starId":"lunar-autonomy-challenge","text":"Machine learning on a NASA Lunar Autonomy Challenge team, run by Johns Hopkins APL, from November 2024 to January 2025."},{"id":"lunar-autonomy-challenge.what","starId":"lunar-autonomy-challenge","text":"Autonomous lunar robotics: navigation, excavation and resource utilization, using CARLA simulation and SLAM."},{"id":"lunar-autonomy-challenge.lsii","starId":"lunar-autonomy-challenge","text":"The work supported NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII)."},{"id":"snap-accelerator.funding","starId":"snap-accelerator","text":"Secured $25,000+ in funding through the Snap Spectacles Student Accelerator."},{"id":"snap-accelerator.role","starId":"snap-accelerator","text":"Led AR/AI development with TypeScript, Node.js and real-time cloud sync."},{"id":"snap-accelerator.elementals","starId":"snap-accelerator","text":"Project Elementals: a multiplayer AR game on Spectacles where players bend elements in one shared world, synced in real time across devices; Kartikey was lead AR developer."},{"id":"snap-accelerator.motion","starId":"snap-accelerator","text":"Also built a stabilization approach that reduces motion sickness during AR use in moving environments, aimed at comfortable extended wear."},{"id":"psu-hackathon-team.role","starId":"psu-hackathon-team","text":"Founder & President of the Penn State Collegiate Hackathon Team, August 2024 to December 2025."},{"id":"psu-hackathon-team.growth","starId":"psu-hackathon-team","text":"Grew the team to 27+ members."},{"id":"psu-hackathon-team.rank","starId":"psu-hackathon-team","text":"Lifted Penn State's national hackathon rank from #185 to #74 within one year."},{"id":"psu-hackathon-team.program","starId":"psu-hackathon-team","text":"Built a dual-track program, secured national sponsorships, and ran workshops on Next.js, GraphQL and automation engineering."},{"id":"gdsc-psu.role","starId":"gdsc-psu","text":"Technical Lead of GDSC at Penn State from January 2023 to August 2024, then President from August 2024 to May 2025."},{"id":"gdsc-psu.community","starId":"gdsc-psu","text":"Built a 200+ student developer community focused on software engineering, AI/ML and cloud."},{"id":"penn-state.degree","starId":"penn-state","text":"B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Entrepreneurship, Penn State University, 2022 to 2026."},{"id":"penn-state.focus","starId":"penn-state","text":"Focus on software engineering, AI/ML and systems."},{"id":"acrn.what","starId":"acrn","text":"Brand site and member directory for a hacker house, designed and built by Kartikey to feel hand-made rather than templated."},{"id":"acrn.design","starId":"acrn","text":"A bespoke Material Design 3 color system themed on soil, moss, acorn, fern and clay, with three typefaces: Fraunces, Newsreader and JetBrains Mono."},{"id":"acrn.build","starId":"acrn","text":"No framework: a hand-written index of about 35KB with full OG/SEO meta and 8 member profiles, in HTML, CSS and vanilla JS on Vercel."},{"id":"token-company-prd.what","starId":"token-company-prd","text":"The benchmarking research brief behind ReCompress."},{"id":"token-company-prd.desc","starId":"token-company-prd","text":"Repo description: \"The Token Company — UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2026 PRD: a LoRA fine-tuned code-context compressor proven on held-out SWE-bench (same bug found, far fewer tokens).\""}]}