hey, i'm
Vaibhav Hariram
building the next frontier of dev tools — stay tuned for a little something called Kado
prev. swe intern at Railinc (2x), building gis-driven tools for freight rail operations + terminal workflows
studying cs @ berkeley
doing llm tool research for berkeley's Gorilla Project (affiliated with BAIR + Sky Computing Lab)
researcher @ uc berkeley (eecs), satellite imagery + ML to detect crypto mining development in el salvador (Potts Lab)
personal projects
atlas — predictive multi-modal transportation router combining dijkstra/a*/contraction hierarchies with traffic models
stack: python • graph algos • routing
swandb — real-time visualization platform to find high-risk evacuation corridors
stack: (see repo)
roadsense (aka Camino) — CV system that finds road damage from dashcam video + maps it for cities
stack: pytorch • yolov8 • opencv
paprika — zoning intelligence lookup for sf properties
stack: postgresql • postgis • next.js
open source
geofilter — geojson spatial filter library (~1m+ points/sec)
reqbench — cli load testing (p50/p95/p99 + throughput)
contributed to HF Transformers + PostGIS
lore
pretty good at geography trivia
played trevor rainbolt in ranked geoguessr. got absolutely cooked tho
played carnatic violin for 10 years
huge chelsea fan + chicago sports
grew up in cary, north carolina. escaped.
tl;dr
i love geospatial ai/ml + geotech: geospatial data, machine learning, and real systems people actually use
currently
berkeley → scale and build wherever and whatever i can
still thinking about that caleb williams throw…
some other things
coursework: data structures, discrete math, structure of computer programs, networking + internet protocols, computer vision, data science, probably more ai/ml
tools: python, typescript, react/next.js, postgresql/postgis, pytorch, xgboost, scikit-learn, gis tooling, aws, docker
interests: cities + public transportation, collecting old maps, tamil culture, soccer jerseys, geoguessr, chicago sports, international music
less frequently: south indian movies, home decor, sketching, online chess, sparkling water
other things
used to watch anime a little bit
trying to learn to dj and cook (or both at the same time)
will run a marathon this year
trying to attend more hackathons
roast my spotify playlists