About Baniloo
I'm Tanay Kashyap — an AI-enabled software engineer, finishing a Master's in AI & ML, building things in whatever time is left over. The projects on this site are a fair cross-section of what I actually spend time on: a federated learning dissertation, two open protocols, a task tracker I built because I couldn't find one I liked, a gym app, and a real-time fan experience for the World Cup.
The serious ones get designed carefully. The fun ones get shipped fast. Both approaches teach you different things, and I've stopped believing one is more legitimate than the other.
I'm also interested in the question underneath the question — why things are designed the way they are, whether that's the right design or just the one nobody thought to question. That instinct shows up most clearly in LooMed and PulseSyn, where the whole point is to redesign something from scratch. But it's there in the smaller projects too, in the decisions about what a feature should actually do versus what's expected.
The name comes from my parents' names — Bani and Niloo, a nickname for Mrityunjay. It felt right to build something under a name that meant something before this did.
If something here starts a conversation worth having, I'm reachable at tanaykashyap.dev@gmail.com.
Building in public
Everything here is built in the open. After a dev session I write up what actually happened — the decisions, the dead ends, the things that broke — as a journal entry on that project. It's a running record of the work, not a polished changelog. You can read every stream on the ideas page, follow the source under Baniloo Labs and my GitHub, or subscribe via RSS.