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Building
intelligent
systems.

B.Tech CSE @ PES University · AI / ML · Agentic Systems · Software Engineering · AI Safety Research

I build systems where machine learning, software engineering, and research meet — from autonomous ML pipelines and voice agents to internal model monitoring and mechanistic AI safety.

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Yashas Sadananda
01
EdgeDaemon
AI safety / provenance
ACTIVE
02
MechGuard
model-internal assurance
RESEARCH
03
Agentic Systems
orchestration / automation
SHIPPING
04
ML Research
CV / forecasting / RL
BUILDING
Education
PES University · CSE
Focus
AI / ML + Systems
Flagship
EdgeDaemon / MechGuard
Location
Bengaluru, India
01 — ABOUT

More than
just code.

A systems-oriented computer science student interested in building things that are technically deep, useful, and difficult to fake.

I'm a Computer Science Engineering student at PES University, Bengaluru, working across AI/ML, agentic systems, backend engineering, and AI safety research.

My work increasingly revolves around a simple question: what happens when we stop treating AI as a black box and start building infrastructure around its internal behaviour, provenance, evaluation, and deployment?

That direction led to EdgeDaemon and its research product MechGuard, while other projects explore autonomous ML pipelines, voice agents, computer vision, forecasting, reinforcement learning, legal AI, and enterprise systems.

I enjoy working at the boundary between research and engineering — taking an idea, turning it into an experiment, then turning the useful pieces into software people can actually interact with.

Degree
B.Tech Computer Science
University
PES University
Current Work
EdgeDaemon
Research
Mechanistic AI Safety
Open Source
GSSoC · SSoC · Hugging Face
Base
Bengaluru, India
02 — FLAGSHIP

The work I care
about most.

A venture and research direction exploring internal evidence for AI assurance — from model development through deployment.

EDGE DAEMON · MECHGUARD
● ACTIVE RESEARCH

EdgeDaemon

EdgeDaemon is the venture I am building around AI decision provenance, internal assurance, and safety infrastructure. Its current research product, MechGuard, investigates whether internal model evidence can complement conventional AI observability — from weight-space changes during fine-tuning to activation signals during deployment.

PRODUCT

MechGuard

Internal assurance for AI systems — measuring internal signals, preserving provenance, and surfacing evidence for safety and security investigation.

ATTEST

Training-time evidence

LoRA weight-difference analysis, SVD, singular-value trajectories, subspace analysis, and checkpoint-level monitoring during fine-tuning.

WATCH

Deployment-time signals

Residual-stream activations, probes, cross-agent aggregation, activation alignment, and robustness evaluation for multi-agent systems.

RESEARCH

Lifecycle assurance

The longer-term hypothesis connects training-time internal evidence with downstream deployment risk through model lineage and longitudinal evidence.

Python PyTorch Transformers PEFT / LoRA SVD Activation Probing Streamlit Research Infrastructure
MechGuard GitHub ↗ Prototype ↗ Research Board ↗
03 — SELECTED WORK

Things I've
built.

A broader view than the resume — production-oriented systems, research prototypes, hackathon builds, experiments, and engineering work.

SHOWING 10 PROJECTS
01 AI SAFETY

MechGuard

Research-driven internal assurance system investigating model-internal evidence across fine-tuning and deployment. Built under EdgeDaemon.

PyTorch Transformers LoRA SVD
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02 VOICE AI

Sunrise AI Voice Agent

Full-stack voice AI system being productionised for outbound calling, multilingual lead qualification, structured extraction, webhooks, and operational dashboards.

Next.js FastAPI Exotel SQLite
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03 AGENTIC ML

Autonomous ML Pipeline Agent

Multi-agent ML workflow connecting issue interpretation, dataset analysis, strategy generation, code generation, execution, testing, and reporting through typed orchestration.

LangGraph Claude XGBoost GitLab CI
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04 DATA SCIENCE

Weather Risk Forecasting

Location-aware weather forecasting and risk-analysis system combining feature engineering, multi-horizon prediction, uncertainty analysis, and interactive visualisation.

Python Pandas scikit-learn Streamlit
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05 COMPUTER VISION

MilletDataNet

End-to-end crop disease classification system using a fine-tuned ResNet18 pipeline with inference provenance, API services, frontend visualisation, and simulated IoT data flow.

PyTorch ResNet18 FastAPI React MQTT
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06 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

ML Pipeline Agent — OpenEnv

Reinforcement-learning environment framing ML pipeline design as a sequential decision problem across preprocessing, model selection, tuning, and debugging.

Q-Learning OpenEnv Python Docker
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07 ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

AssetFlow

Enterprise asset and resource management application built around authentication, relational data modelling, migrations, APIs, frontend workflows, and containerised deployment.

FastAPI PostgreSQL React Docker
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08 MEMORY / AGENTS

AuditMind

Forensic audit system reconstructing decision histories for regulated-industry AI using graph-vector memory and provenance-oriented agent workflows.

Cognee LangGraph FastAPI D3.js
GITHUB PROFILE ↗
09 AGENTIC RESEARCH

NEXUS

Multi-agent research orchestration concept combining streaming execution, semantic memory, web research, parallel analysis, and structured report generation.

TypeScript LangChain LLMs
GITHUB PROFILE ↗
10 AI / FULL STACK

Edge-Daemon

On-device continual-learning and safety-constrained AI framework exploring quantisation, LoRA adaptation, safety interfaces, and lightweight API infrastructure.

Python LoRA FastAPI AI Safety
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04 — LIVE / DEPLOYED

Things you can
actually open.

Not everything I build lives behind a GitHub repository. These are deployed interfaces, applications, and prototypes that can be explored directly.

A separate layer of the portfolio for work that has crossed the boundary from codebase to something people can interact with.

DEPLOYED
ML / WEB APP

Weather Risk Forecasting

Fully deployed weather forecasting and risk-analysis application combining the underlying ML pipeline with an interactive web interface.

weather-risk-app-tau.vercel.app
DEPLOYED
FRONTEND

Coffee Landing Page

Handcrafted frontend project deployed through GitHub Pages, focused on visual composition, responsive layout, typography, and polished presentation.

yxshas565.github.io/coffee-landing-page/
DEPLOYED
FRONTEND

Artistry Landing Page

Visual frontend build deployed on GitHub Pages, exploring typography, composition, responsive design, and product-style web presentation.

yxshas565.github.io/artistry-landing-page/
PROTOTYPE
AI SAFETY

MechGuard Dashboard

Separate prototype / presentation dashboard for the MechGuard research system, providing a visual layer over the model-internal assurance concept.

MechGuard prototype / dashboard
05 — RESEARCH

Below the
interface.

My research direction is increasingly focused on understanding and monitoring AI systems below the input/output boundary.

CURRENT DIRECTION

Mechanistic AI Safety & Interpretability

The long-term goal is not to claim that we can "read model thoughts", but to build better evidence around what changes inside models and how those changes relate to downstream behaviour.

RQ01

Training-time internal evidence

Investigating whether parameter and representation geometry changes systematically during fine-tuning regimes associated with problematic behaviour.

RQ02

Deployment-time representation monitoring

Exploring activation extraction, probes, cross-agent aggregation, alignment analysis, and robustness testing for multi-agent systems.

RQ03

The lifecycle bridge

Studying whether training-time internal evidence can eventually provide useful information about downstream deployment risk.

A001

MechGuard training-time pilot

The completed pilot validates the measurement pipeline and demonstrates substantial internal geometric movement while leaving the predictive relationship to emergent misalignment as an open research question.

06 — EXPERIENCE

Where I've
worked.

A compact timeline of research, startup incubation, and engineering experience.

2026 — PRESENT

EdgeDaemon

FOUNDER · RESEARCH / PRODUCT LEAD

Building the venture around AI provenance, internal assurance, and the MechGuard research program spanning training-time and deployment-time model evidence.

AUG 2026

Single Core Labs

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOW

Research work involving reinforcement learning, CUDA-based acceleration, reproducible evaluation, benchmarking pipelines, and AI coding-agent systems.

MAY — JUL 2026

PESU Venture Labs

TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATE · ABC FOUNDER TRACK

Selected for the founder-track incubation programme to develop EdgeDaemon, working across technical architecture, product thesis, full-stack prototyping, pitch development, and go-to-market research.

07 — CAPABILITIES

My technical
toolbox.

Technologies I use across research, product engineering, machine learning, backend systems, and agentic AI.

Programming
Python C C++ JavaScript TypeScript SQL OOP
Machine Learning & AI
PyTorch scikit-learn XGBoost Hugging Face Transformers Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Q-Learning LSTM
Generative AI & Agents
LLMs Agentic AI RAG LangGraph LangChain Multi-Agent Systems Prompt Engineering
Data Science
Pandas NumPy Matplotlib Feature Engineering Data Visualization
Backend & DevOps
FastAPI REST APIs Docker Git GitHub GitLab CI/CD Linux
Databases & Cloud
SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL Google Cloud Microsoft Azure
Other
React Next.js Node.js Express.js Streamlit MQTT OpenEnv
08 — CREDENTIALS

Beyond the
projects.

Programs, certifications, communities, and activities that have shaped the work outside the codebase.

AN

Claude Fluency in AI & Claude 101

ANTHROPIC

MS

Generative AI & Neural Networks

MICROSOFT AZURE

GC

Cloud & ML Credentials

GOOGLE CLOUD

IIT

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

IIT PATNA

HR

Python Advanced

HACKERRANK

CC

C

CODECHEF

MK

Forward Learning Programme

MCKINSEY

AD

University Hackathon

ADOBE

09 — COMMUNITY

Outside the
repository.

OS

Open Source

Contributor across GSSoC, SSoC, and Hugging Face ecosystem projects.

GA

Google Student Ambassador

Participant in the Gemini Student Ambassador programme.

IEEE

IEEE RAS PESUCC Robotics Club

Technical domain involvement across robotics and engineering activities.

IT

IEEE EC Campus

Technical-domain participation and engineering community activities.

KK

Kannada Koota

IT / technical-domain involvement within the campus community.

HK

Ice & Inline Hockey

Competitive hockey experience representing Karnataka, bringing a team-performance perspective outside engineering.

11 / RESUME

The concise
version.

A one-page overview of my education, experience, selected projects, technical stack, research, and engineering work.

AI / ML SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AGENTIC AI AI SAFETY RESEARCH
Yashas_Sadananda_Resume.pdf
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