JAI/SHUKLARésumé ↗
Building an agent OS on a Hermes fork · open to problems that don’t stop at the app layer

I build the whole stack — from the model down to the metal.

Jai Shukla. AI and systems engineer — I ship agent systems and the full-stack products around them. When a problem runs deeper than the app, I keep going: browser runtimes, Rust firmware, the machines themselves.

Now: AI & systems engineer · building an agent OS
Depth: agent runtimes · React/TS · Rust · AWS · WebRTC · down to bare metal
Based in Bengaluru, India · willing to relocate
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Jai Shukla
WP-01The through-line

Most engineers pick a layer and stay there. I go wherever the problem is.

Right now that’s an agent OS — a fork of Nous’s Hermes, with containerized sessions streamed over WebRTC. Before it: an AI product shipped inside PowerPoint, a query language so agents could traverse Revit geometry, the Rust software driving a 5-axis machine, and a potentiostat with its own firmware, built because the instrument I needed didn’t exist. The domains changed; the instinct didn’t — when the tool isn’t there, build it.

DEPTH 00 — MODEL

Agents & Models

A hybrid JSONPath–Emmet query language so agents can traverse Revit geometry. A long-context tool that chunks data to stop context pollution. Record-then-replay browser automation instead of re-reasoning every run.

DEPTH 01 — SOFTWARE

Full-stack & Systems

React / TypeScript / Rust across desktop, web, and cloud. Real-time collaboration (Yjs/CRDT), microservices, AWS infra, cross-platform apps.

DEPTH 02 — METAL

Machine & Firmware

Designed and built precision machines end-to-end. Rust firmware on RP2040 / ESP32 (embassy-rs), motion control, closed-loop vision, custom instruments.

WP-02Featured builds
Two mjx-hermes-agent client windows side by side — session list, capabilities, artifacts and cron jobs in the sidebar
Agent runtimeIndependent · 2026–present

mjx-hermes-agent — an unofficial client on Nous’s Hermes

Role: fork · runtime · session streaming · browser automation

A fork of Nous Research’s Hermes, rebuilt as an unofficial client that carries the same session across Linux, macOS and Windows — an agent OS that drives whichever machine is in front of me, not just the terminal it started in.

The hard part: getting a real desktop out of a container. The containerized session streams over WebRTC so a remote machine is driveable at frame rate, and browser work is recorded once and replayed deterministically instead of re-reasoning the same clicks on every run.

WebRTCContainersBrowser automationCross-platformAgents
github.com/jaxmatrix/mjx-hermes-agent ↗
The Slidely AI product page — “Create & improve complex, fully editable PowerPoint presentations”, with generated decks alongside
Product · founding engineerSlidelyAI (YC) · 2025–26

Shipping an AI product across desktop, web & cloud

Role: Windows add-in · web app · AI orchestration · infra

Owned the Windows software, the web app, the AI orchestration layer and the cloud infra. Unlocked web-app integration inside PowerPoint and ported legacy Windows add-ins to macOS with full parity.

Engineered a high-fidelity graphics-tracing pipeline (generative AI + computer vision + autonomous feedback agents) across distributed microservices; built OneDrive/SharePoint access via the Microsoft Graph API.

React / TSC# / VB.NETAWSGraph APIComputer visionMicroservices
The Dexkitty landing page — “The AI layer for design intelligence”
AI systemsProject · 2026–present

Dexkitty — an AI layer over Autodesk Revit

Role: systems architecture · agents · CAD integration

A multi-agent system with WebSockets and Yjs (CRDTs) for synchronized human–AI editing of Revit models, bridged to native CAD through a custom high-speed connector.

Authored a hybrid JSONPath–Emmet query language to traverse hierarchical Revit geometry for agents, plus a Qdrant-backed vector knowledge base and a long-context agent tool that chunks data to stop context pollution.

TypeScriptYjs / CRDTWebSocketsQdrantRevit / BIMAgents
A multiplexed sensor held between two fingers: seven screen-printed electrodes radiating from a centre well on Kapton, with an SLA-printed chamber bonded over it
Fabrication & processNanobiosensor Lab, IIT KGP · 2021–25

Multiplexed biosensors, micropatterned at 50µm

Role: biosensor scientist · process development · lab build-out

Developed biosensor materials and my own fabrication process: a DLP printer to create 50µm patterns, used to build multiplexed sensors functionalized through electrochemistry.

Also rebuilt an RF/DC sputtering system from a full teardown and wrote its operating protocols, and set up the lab's measurement station from scratch. The clip includes an NPTEL segment where I explain how the potentiostat works.

DLP lithographyElectrochemistryRF/DC sputteringThin filmsML (SVM/NN/RF)
The control software mid-run: jog controls down the left, QC and pipette camera feeds watching the head over a sensor board
Rust desktop + toolingUtopic Tech · 2023–24

The software that drives the machine

Role: desktop app · path generation · Tauri mobile control

Wrote the machine's control software in Rust (egui), architected as a remote state machine so operators reconfigure and run new processes at runtime — no firmware changes.

Built an SVG-based process generator that compiles vector designs into multi-axis toolpaths, and a Tauri mobile app so a phone can drive the instrument directly.

RusteguiTauriState machinesPath planning
Potentiostat bring-up: a Raspberry Pi Pico W wired across two breadboards to a row of op-amps forming the analog front end
Embedded RustIIT Kharagpur · 2021–23

A self-built potentiostat and its Rust firmware

Role: hardware bring-up · async embedded firmware

Built firmware for a self-developed potentiostat on the RP2040 in Rust with embassy-rs, plus ESP32 firmware (esp-idf-rs) for real-time experiments.

Implemented the real electrochemical methods — CV, DPV, CA and EIS — across a 1µA to 100mA current-detection range: async control talking directly to analog front-ends, on a microcontroller.

Rustembassy-rsesp-idf-rsRP2040 / ESP32Analog / ADC
The 5-axis deposition machine on the bench: extruded aluminium frame, stepper motors, lead screws and the deposition head
Precision machineUtopic Tech · 2023–24

A 5-axis micro-deposition machine, built end to end

Role: mechanical design · firmware · control software · vision

Designed and built the machine from scratch — hardware, customized Marlin firmware, and the motion stack.

The hard part: killing tip vibration so material lands on a 100µm spot. I re-tuned the acceleration/deceleration profiles and paired high-count steppers with fine-pitch lead screws for ~50µm resolution, then closed the loop with image-based position correction to 10µm.

MarlinMotion controlStepper drivesOpenCVMechanical design
WP-03The benchdrag to scroll · click to enlarge
The 5-axis deposition rig, first full assembly — extruded frame, lead screws, and the head that had to land material on a 100µm spot.
The 5-axis deposition rig, first full assembly — extruded frame, lead screws, and the head that had to land material on a 100µm spot.
The same machine a revision later: enclosed, with a microscope on the head and a hygrometer inside the cabinet.
The same machine a revision later: enclosed, with a microscope on the head and a hygrometer inside the cabinet.
Humidity control added after runs started drifting with the weather. A dehumidifier in the enclosure held it near 40%.
Humidity control added after runs started drifting with the weather. A dehumidifier in the enclosure held it near 40%.
The RF/DC sputtering chamber — stainless bell, viewport, turbo and gas lines. It arrived dead; this is before the teardown.
The RF/DC sputtering chamber — stainless bell, viewport, turbo and gas lines. It arrived dead; this is before the teardown.
Turbo controller alive again and the rotary pump running, after rebuilding the vacuum system and writing its operating protocol.
Turbo controller alive again and the rotary pump running, after rebuilding the vacuum system and writing its operating protocol.
First copper laid down once the chamber held vacuum again.
First copper laid down once the chamber held vacuum again.
Potentiostat v4 — a Pico W talking to a row of op-amps, running the embassy-rs firmware that does CV, DPV, CA and EIS.
Potentiostat v4 — a Pico W talking to a row of op-amps, running the embassy-rs firmware that does CV, DPV, CA and EIS.
v2, built on hand-annotated cardboard: relay-switched electrodes, a level shifter, and an Android app plotting the sweep over Bluetooth.
v2, built on hand-annotated cardboard: relay-switched electrodes, a level shifter, and an Android app plotting the sweep over Bluetooth.
v1. Where the instrument started before any of it worked.
v1. Where the instrument started before any of it worked.
Writing an ILI9225 SPI display driver in Rust for the Pico — source on the monitor, the display itself wired up on the desk.
Writing an ILI9225 SPI display driver in Rust for the Pico — source on the monitor, the display itself wired up on the desk.
Eighteen electrodes fanned out across a chip the size of a fingertip, etched down to 50µm traces.
Eighteen electrodes fanned out across a chip the size of a fingertip, etched down to 50µm traces.
Eight three-electrode cells screen-printed onto Kapton in one pass — my own fabrication process, no cleanroom involved.
Eight three-electrode cells screen-printed onto Kapton in one pass — my own fabrication process, no cleanroom involved.
SLA-printed microfluidic cells with electrodes bonded in, for flow measurements on live cell culture.
SLA-printed microfluidic cells with electrodes bonded in, for flow measurements on live cell culture.
The first mask for the wearable patch sensor, cut and aligned by hand.
The first mask for the wearable patch sensor, cut and aligned by hand.
No FPC adapter anywhere in the building, so a clothes peg became the connector — jaws clamp the flex cable, wires soldered onto the contacts.
No FPC adapter anywhere in the building, so a clothes peg became the connector — jaws clamp the flex cable, wires soldered onto the contacts.
The hostel-room lab at IIT Kharagpur: one printer, a growth chart on the whiteboard, and most of a Master’s worth of side projects.
The hostel-room lab at IIT Kharagpur: one printer, a growth chart on the whiteboard, and most of a Master’s worth of side projects.
WP-04The path
JUL 2026 — PRESENT
Independent
mjx-hermes-agent · an agent OS on a Hermes fork
Cross-platform client on a fork of Nous Research’s Hermes: containerized sessions streamed over WebRTC, and browser work recorded once and replayed deterministically.
FEB 2025 — JUN 2026
Founding Engineer
SlidelyAI (Y Combinator-backed) · Bengaluru
Windows desktop software, web application, AI orchestration layer and cloud infrastructure for an AI-native slide product.
JUN 2024 — JAN 2025
Founder
Vasinya Yunaan · Pune
Built a platform analyzing 10,000+ patents for diagnostics market trends with RAG over OpenAI APIs; pitched investors and raised an initial $20,000.
MAR 2023 — MAY 2024
Scientist — Machine Design & Control
Utopic Tech Pvt. Ltd. · Pune
Designed and built the 5-axis deposition machine, its Rust control software, SVG toolpath generator, and vision-based position correction to 10µm.
MAR 2021 — 2025
Biosensor Scientist / Research Assistant
Nanobiosensor & BioDevices Lab, SMST, IIT Kharagpur
Four years developing biosensor materials, fabricating and patterning multiplexed sensors, building the potentiostat firmware, rebuilding a sputtering system, and ML for analyte prediction.
JUN 2021 — AUG 2021
Google Summer of Code Contributor
Open Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
WebGL visualization pipelines for biomolecules and a UI for dynamic atom identification and labeling.
2016 — 2021
B.Sc. (Hons) + M.Sc., Chemistry
IIT Kharagpur
Master's thesis: k-means clustering for catalyst discovery in water splitting across 200+ journals.
WP-05The stack I build with

Languages

RustTypeScriptPythonCC# / VB (.NET)

Models & Agents

HermesLangGraphQdrantBrowser automation

Frontend & Apps

ReactNext.jsAngulareguiTauriWebGL

Backend & Real-time

Node.jsFastAPIActixHonoWebSocketsWebRTCYjsSocket.ioPostgreSQL

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CDGraph API

Hardware & Firmware

embassy-rsesp-idf-rsRP2040 / ESP32Marlin / motionOpenCVPotentiostat designSputtering / DLP
WP-06Research & recognitionGoogle Scholar ↗
PUBLICATIONS · 5
Smartphone-integrated, reagent-free paper sensor for hematocrit measurement
Analytical Methods 15(29), 2023 · cited by 11 · device + image-processing server
Lab-on-chip electrochemical biosensor for rheumatoid arthritis
MEMS & Microfluidics in Healthcare, 2023 · cited by 6
Application of radiopharmaceuticals in diagnostics and therapy
Next-Gen Nanobiosensor Devices, 2022 · cited by 5
Electrochemical detection of cancer fingerprint: extracellular vesicle research from lab to market
Next-Gen Nanobiosensor Devices, 2022 · cited by 3
Role of biosensors in regenerative therapeutics
Regenerative Medicine: Emerging Techniques, 2023 · cited by 2
AWARDS
2nd — Siemens MakeItReal HackathonFull-stack security system + integrated hardware · 2019
1st — Product Design, INAE Youth ConclaveNovel bandage to control bleeding from severe wounds · 2019
3rd — Rural Technology HackathonDevice generating electricity from stove waste heat · 2018
Participant — Clinton Global Initiative UniversityFarm machine for stubble management · 2018