Aarti Panchal

Curious builder, obsessed with AI.

I do things instantly that other people plan to do eventually.
I love playing with every new AI tool and building what I wish existed.
Currently building Closeli, and rebuilding India's 104 health helpline.

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Experience

LFX Mentorship Fall 2026Applicant, CNCF Apicurio Registry, Linux FoundationApplied, selections Sep 2-4

Applied Aug 2026

Remote

C4GT DMP '26 ContributorOpen Source Contributor, Piramal Swasthya, C4GT Digital Mentorship ProgramMidterm cleared

2026 - Present

Remote

Product EngineerFirst engineer besides the two founders, InverixInternship completed

Jun - Jul 2026

On-site

FounderFounder & Builder, KhojLive

Jan 2026 - Present

Remote

Projects

Live

Eka

Four-persona AI system on synthetic datasets: 4 supervised models trained and published on Hugging Face.

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Khoj

Campus lost-and-found, launched Jan 2026, pitched at NITK Incub8.

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Live

ARIA

Autonomous research agent with a 4-dimension critic and targeted replanning.

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Live

voxharness

Open-source CI testing harness for voice agents: 69 tests green, zero humans in the loop.

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GitHub Activity

1520 GitHub activities in the last year

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Open Source Contributions

fix(registration): align beneficiary/create payload with legacy contractPSMRI/Helpline104-UI-NEXT · #54
fix(registration): show validation errors on Next when required select fields are emptyPSMRI/Helpline104-UI-NEXT · #53
fix(build): add missing CI prebuild script for env var injectionPSMRI/Helpline104-UI-NEXT · #52
fix(app): transferCall 5000 handling, beneficiary persistence on refresh, upload-symptoms submitPSMRI/Helpline104-UI-NEXT · #51
feat(supervisor): implement agent status screenPSMRI/Helpline104-UI-NEXT · #44
feat(login): conditional captcha rendering based on siteKey presencePSMRI/Helpline104-UI-NEXT · #46
feat(supervisor): implement SMS templates screenPSMRI/Helpline104-UI-NEXT · #41
fix(mcp): apply declared variable defaults when rendering prompt templatesApicurio/apicurio-registry · #9392

Skills & Technologies

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaAngularReactNext.jsQuarkusFastAPIaiohttpNode.jsPostgreSQLFirestoreTailwind CSSPlaywrightVitestDockerGit

Blogs

Shipping real products as a first engineering hire

Three products, a few weeks, and what it actually takes being the only engineer besides the founders.

Aug 10, 20264 reactions

#webdev#ai#react#career

What C4GT Actually Is, and How to Get Into DMP 2027

A practical guide to the fellowship that got me contributing to India's national health stack.

Aug 1, 20266 reactions

#opensource#govtech#fellowship

A Live Call Landed: Rebuilding India's 104 Health Helpline from Angular 4 to Angular 20

What it felt like when a real emergency call landed mid-migration.

Aug 1, 20262 reactions

#tailwindcss#opensource#angular#webdev

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Highlights

Pitched Khoj at NITK Incub8

Took Khoj from a campus WhatsApp problem to a real pitch in front of an incubator.

AWS Summit

Attended AWS Summit, a full day soaking up how AWS builds and ships at scale.

✈️🎖️ NCC Air Wing

Best Air Contingent (A.I.V.S.C.): two cadet camps, one trophy.

Hackathons & a CTF

10+ hackathons and 1 CTF so far, including a runner-up finish and a first-ever CTF placing 2nd among all-women teams.

GSoC Meetup at Google Ananta

Spent the day at Google's Ananta campus for the GSoC meetup, couldn't leave without a photo next to the giant G.

Pitched Khoj at NITK Incub8

Took Khoj from a campus WhatsApp problem to a real pitch in front of an incubator.

AWS Summit

Attended AWS Summit, a full day soaking up how AWS builds and ships at scale.

✈️🎖️ NCC Air Wing

Best Air Contingent (A.I.V.S.C.): two cadet camps, one trophy.

Hackathons & a CTF

10+ hackathons and 1 CTF so far, including a runner-up finish and a first-ever CTF placing 2nd among all-women teams.

GSoC Meetup at Google Ananta

Spent the day at Google's Ananta campus for the GSoC meetup, couldn't leave without a photo next to the giant G.