vedanth@cmu-ai:~$ ./profile name Vedanth Ramanathan school Carnegie Mellon University major Artificial Intelligence focus AI systems · civic tech · databases · security · quant infra status building, testing, iterating
I build systems that turn messy real-world data into usable decisions — across civic data, agents, infrastructure, security, and markets.
PID SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 001 CivicDuty Tracking bills, meetings, votes, and local civic signals 002 Agent Portal Personal assistant interface with tool use + MCP-style orchestration 003 DBMS Engine MVCC/OCC, B+ trees, buffer pools, and query execution internals 004 Market Pipeline Producer-consumer research system for BTC volatility drift 005 LLM Jailbreaking OWASP-informed testing on common SaaS/API failure points
learning agentic workflows · DBMS internals · API security · vision systems building CivicDuty · assistant portal · academic DBMS · market-data pipelines reading systems papers · security writeups · market microstructure notes debugging brittle abstractions, hidden bottlenecks, and suspiciously green tests