I'm Kedar, a Senior Director of Engineering at True Sparrow with 15 years of product development experience. My expertise spans from individual contributions to orchestrating teams of all sizes.

I deeply enjoy contributing to open-source projects, particularly in AI, web3, and security. At True Sparrow, we not only bring client ideas to production-quality code but also actively support open-source initiatives.

Education:

B.Tech. and M.Tech. from IIT Bombay from the Department of Electrical Engineering.

OpenSource Projects:

Sirji: A Framework to Build & Run Custom AI Agents for Everyday Dev Tasks (Lead)

• A Custom Agent is a modular AI component designed to execute specific tasks based on predefined pseudocode.

• Developers articulate their coding style and domain expertise in plain English through pseudocode, enabling Sirji to perform tasks as instructed.

• GitHub: https://github.com/sirji-ai/sirji

• PyPI:

  • https://pypi.org/project/sirji-agents/

  • https://pypi.org/project/sirji-messages/

  • https://pypi.org/project/sirji-tools/

• Blogs: https://truesparrow.com/blog/tag/sirji/

Needle in a Haystack (Co-maintainer)

• Benchmark technique for LLMs developed by Greg, recognized by Google, Anthropic and Cohere.

• GitHub: https://github.com/gkamradt/LLMTest_NeedleInAHaystack

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/needlehaystack/

• Blog: https://truesparrow.com/blog/niah-journey-in-open-source-and-model-benchmarking/

• Mention by Greg Kamradt: https://twitter.com/GregKamradt/status/1767272911801631099

Sanitize HTML NPM (Contributor)

• Cleans HTML fragments, widely used with >2M weekly downloads.

• Merged PRs related to tag handling, falsy values, and major version upgrades:

  • https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/568

  • https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/577

  • https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/573

• Blog: https://truesparrow.com/blog/open-source-contribution-fun-journey-learnings/

• Mention in Repo owner’s CHANGELOG: https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#280-2022-12-12

OST & OpenST (Lead)

• Open-source frameworks for scalable token economies on Ethereum, including OpenST and Mosaic protocols.

• Repos: https://github.com/orgs/OpenST/repositories, https://github.com/orgs/ostdotcom/repositories

• Case study: https://truesparrow.com/case-study/ost

Whisper Chain (Contributor)

• Social experiment on Lens Protocol demonstrating message mutation in communication.

• GitHub Frontend: https://github.com/TrueSparrowSystems/whisper-chain-fe

• GitHub Backend: https://github.com/TrueSparrowSystems/whisper-chain-be

• Production URL: https://whisperchain.xyz/

• Built at ETHIndia 2022: https://devfolio.co/projects/whisper-chain-53ed

Slackmin (Contributor)

• Open-source slack integration tool for Node.js applications featuring custom tools and commands.

• GitHub: https://github.com/TrueSparrowSystems/slackmin

• NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@truesparrow/slackmin

• Blog: https://truesparrow.com/blog/slackmin-producthunt-launch/

• Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/slackmin