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capad

Aadarsh Upadhyay

I build the tools that shouldn't need to exist. The ones that do frustrated me into building better ones: fast, free, and yours to keep.

shipping in the open:searchts  ·  glyphmaps  ·  grove  ·  beep-beep-oss

selected work

Four things I’m building.

Two shipped, two in progress. Status updates live, straight from the CMS.

searchts

shipped

The missing layer between AI and the web: a keyless, open-source unlocker that reads, searches, and transcribes what a naive fetch cannot, from bot-walled pages to complete AI-chat share conversations, straight from your terminal or agent.

0
API keys
3
unlock tiers
8
AI-chat providers
pythonclimcpweb-unlocker

GlyphMaps

shipped

Turn-by-turn navigation on the back of a phone. GlyphMaps mirrors Google Maps' next maneuver onto the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro's 137-LED Glyph Matrix, so a glance at a face-down phone shows your next turn.

137
LEDs
12
maneuvers
2.2 MB
APK
androidkotlinglyph-matrix

Grove

in progress

A genuinely-free Git review companion that sits beside your AI coding editor: the commit graph, diffs, and every in-flight worktree, refreshing live as your agent changes the repo under you.

pre-alpha
stage
worktree
first
BYO
agent
rusttaurisvelte

beep-beep-oss

in progress

An open-source, self-hostable universal chat client: all your messaging networks in one native inbox, with instant sync and nothing locked behind a paywall. Built on Matrix and Tauri, so the whole stack stays fast, native, and yours to run.

live
sync
0
paywalls
Matrix
protocol
matrixtaurirust

also shipped, smaller: burncard — local-first AI usage and cost telemetry for Claude Code, one npx burncard awayCoffeeBreath — a Rainmeter music widget that breathes with the song's album artDiscord Voice Overlay — a glass desktop overlay for live voice control

not mine, I just fixed it: wmux — a main-process freeze in a terminal multiplexer; diagnosed, patched, merged, shipped in v0.40.0 and v0.42.0

experience

A short timeline.

    2026

    Software Engineer & Architect

    Compliance Sarathi · Appson Technologies

    Main engineer and architect of Compliance Sarathi, an AI-powered ROC and corporate-compliance platform for Indian companies, where I wrote 542 of 647 commits (84%). Designed its agentic AI assistant with a safety-gated action layer, a multi-provider LLM service (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude), and a deterministic statutory-deadline engine, leading architecture, core build, and client delivery on a React + Node / MongoDB stack.

    2026

    from 2025

    Software Engineer

    Wordibly · Appson Technologies

    At Appson Technologies, worked on Wordibly, a US-based hybrid human + AI transcription and translation platform, across its React / Node.js / Python / MongoDB / AWS stack, from customer ordering and upload flows to the transcriber and manager dashboards.

    2025

    AI Training Engineer

    Turing

    Short two-week contract training Meta's Llama models, hands-on LLM data work via Appson Technologies.

who i am

Small, glowing, useful things
nobody asked for.

I architect and ship AI platforms — agentic assistants with safety-gated actions, multi-provider LLM systems, the hard parts. That was the day job through July 2026, and it's the work I'm looking for next. As capad, I ship small, genuinely-free tools and desktop apps nobody asked me to make. I can't leave a good idea alone: most people think “that would be cool” and move on. I build it.

The pattern across all of it: I like things that respond, glow, and feel a little alive — a turn arrow drawn in LEDs on the back of a phone, a music widget that breathes with the song. The things I build are maximal and full of motion; the words about them stay plain.

All of it comes off one hard-working laptop that's usually running the whole show at once — agents, builds, emulators, a dozen dev servers. I push it hard, and things ship.

And I can build for you, too — I'm open to roles, contracts, and collaborations. If something here feels like your kind of problem, say hello — or take the resume.

free & open by defaultproof-first prototypesreverse-engineer when there's no APImaximal things, plain wordsalways a next thing

the stack

What I reach for.

The deepest current groove is AI systems: multi-provider LLM platforms, agentic assistants whose write-actions are safety-gated and audited, and the Claude ecosystem end to end — API, MCP servers, Code skills.

ai & agents

Claude API & MCPagentic tool-callingsafety-gated actionsClaude Code skillsLLM training data

languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPython

frameworks

Next.jsReactSvelteTauriElectron

frontend & motion

TailwindGSAPMotionLenisReact Three Fiber

backend & data

Node.jsMongoDB / MongooseREST APIsJWT authAWS S3

systems & mobile

Android SDKJetpack ComposeMatrix / matrix-rust-sdkDocker

tooling & infra

SanityCloudflarePyPIGitHub Actionsgit

kind words

What people say.

Thank you, for the PR and for #133, which is one of the best bug reports this project has had. You attached a debugger to the main process, took a CPU profile, and came back with a before/after table showing system.identify going from timeout to 0.7 ms.
amirlehmam/Maintaineratwmuxsource
"from your own IP" is the whole insight. a proxy pool fights the bot-wall; your own IP is already through it, same reason a human's browser doesn't trip cloudflare. an agent acting from where you already are doesn't need to sneak in. nice build.
Phi Browser/on searchtsat@phibrowsersource
fetch-time + final_url turns read output into something a reviewer can cite later. Tier/status is useful; redirect + timestamp makes it durable.
Dang_nh/on searchtsat@hikarirainasource
Aadarsh owned the architecture of Compliance Sarathi end to end and shipped a reliable agentic assistant under real deadline pressure. He is who you want on the hard parts of a system.
Engineering, Compliance Sarathi/EngineeringatAppson Technologies

fling, tap or use the dots

say hello

Building something? Let's talk.

I'm open to offers — roles, contracts, collaborations, good problems, and the occasional desktop oddity. The fastest way to reach me is email.

Aadarsh Upadhyaycapad

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