Arav Bhardwaj
CTO & full-stack engineer, ex-CMU.
Now
Building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and software engineering.
Leading technical development at Basics. Building AI-powered workforce training for trades workers.
Experience
- BasicsCTO at a TQ Ventures–backed startup. Building AI-powered workforce training for trades workers.
- Carnegie MellonDouble major in AI and Statistics & Machine Learning. Left to build things the classroom couldn't keep pace with.
- Karini AIBuilt MCP Registry™ and Microsoft Teams AI integrations for enterprise clients. Worked on multi-agent LangGraph systems with Ragas evaluation.
- SparoBuilt automated LinkedIn extraction at 120 profiles per hour. Developed matching algorithms that improved candidate placement by 30%.
- Dartmouth-HitchcockDesigned Wasserstein GANs for synthetic colorectal tissue imaging. Optimized HPC workflows on Slurm for terabyte-scale whole slide processing.
Projects
- SentinelGo-based AI governance gateway preventing cost overruns across LLM providers and MCP servers. Reduced policy deployment from hours to under 5 minutes via Python SDK.
- VerityContent authenticity platform with AI detection, IPFS storage, and Polygon smart contracts. Full-stack app with FastAPI backend and Next.js frontend for verification.
- EcosortAutonomous waste sorting with 82% accuracy using YOLOv5 on 25K+ images. Multi-threaded architecture optimized for 30 FPS on Raspberry Pi 5.
- LiemapNetLogo simulation visualizing the spread of lies in different cultural contexts. Analyzes deception patterns based on severity, benefit, and social proximity.