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vashishtbrahmbhatt@gmail.com Ahmedabad, India — working worldwide

AI/ML engineer

Currently building Colrnx

Vashisht Brahmbhatt.

I build AI systems and thoughtful software — machine learning pipelines, retrieval, and products at the intersection of engineering, startups, and ideas.

01 Selected work

All projects

A few things I've made carefully.

2026

Startup · AI 2026

Colrnx

An AI-verified talent infrastructure platform that turns developers' real production workflows into authentic hiring signals through continuous telemetry and AI-driven evaluation.

  • Python
  • Next.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
2025

AI · Full-Stack 2025

UltraInstinct

A self-hostable second brain — retrieval-augmented AI chat over your own knowledge, hybrid semantic search, real-time streaming responses, and a Chrome extension for one-click capture from any page.

  • Next.js 14
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • ChromaDB
2025

Deep Learning · Audio 2025

Music Genre Classification

A 10-class music genre classifier built on EfficientNet-B0, AST, and CNNs with Mel Spectrograms and ESC-50 augmentation — strengthened with ensemble learning and test-time augmentation.

  • PyTorch
  • Librosa
  • Transformers
  • timm

02 Experience

Full history

A short career, in order.

  1. Co-Founder @ Colrnx
    2026 — Present
  2. AI Engineer and Product Manager @ Clan
    Jun 2025 — Oct 2025
  3. ML Researcher @ Prodigy Infotech
    May 2025 — Jun 2025

03 Latest thoughts

All thoughts

Notes, essays, and other thinking.

01
On Building in Public Without Performing

Building in public became a genre, and genres invite performance. A note on doing the work in the open without letting the audience shape the work.

  • Jun 2026
  • 2 min read
  • startups
  • writing
  • craft
02
Why I Write Things Down

Writing is not documentation. It is the cheapest thinking tool I own, and the one I neglect most.

  • Mar 2026
  • 2 min read
  • writing
  • systems
  • personal
03
The Unsexy Work of Systems

Every great software product is mostly plumbing. The teams that accept this early get to enjoy it; the ones that don't, don't.

  • Sep 2025
  • 2 min read
  • engineering
  • systems

Get in touch

Have something worth building carefully?

I work on applied ML, retrieval systems, and the products built on top of them — and with a small number of teams and founders each year.