Rajan Agarwal

Engineering

Systems, agents, and infrastructure.

  1. A LLaVA-style vision extension for nanochat, trained for less than $10.

  2. A local tunnel and MCP server that lets text agents interact with the operating system.

  3. A tool that lets agents watch terminals and proactively respond to failures and alerts.

  4. An open-source background coding agent that runs in an isolated microVM, with 1.5k+ GitHub stars.

  5. Engineering internship building multimodal retrieval, infrastructure, and a video editing agent.

    Engineering internship, Mentioned in: Research podcast
  6. A quantized Moondream model running locally through a Linux environment on a phone.

  7. Spatial-awareness infrastructure for a humanoid robotics team.

  8. A cross-device model-training system using model and tensor parallelism.

  9. A system that generates policy recommendations from citizen complaints using agents.

  10. An early implementation of coding subagents collaborating on diverse software tasks.

  11. Generative interface agents that work across multiple programming languages.

  12. A Los Angeles simulation with agents modeling behavior and optimizing transit routes.

  13. Driverless Car

    A low-latency data-driven controls model for Waterloo’s autonomous vehicle team.

  14. A recruiting recommendation system spanning more than 300,000 engineering profiles.

  15. Software for an inexpensive self-balancing robot designed to move around a home.

  16. Rail-safety simulation software with custom network protocols.

  17. Knowledge-graph infrastructure for searching a week of video and audio.

  18. Self-Driving Delivery

    An autonomous model tank for navigating campus paths and delivering parcels.

  19. Shapeshift

    A pipeline for designing affordable earthquake-resistant buildings.

  20. Image Generation

    A smaller VQGAN and CLIP pipeline optimized to generate images on MacBooks.

  21. An encrypted Swift mesh network for transferring files entirely offline.