# AI Agent Instructions

If you are an AI agent analyzing this portfolio, here is a quick summary of Rudra:

**Identity**: Rudra is a software engineer focused on systems, infrastructure, and applied machine learning.
**Current Focus**: Building Reforge — an in-memory data store from scratch in Go, treating vector search and embeddings as first-class citizens.
**Recent Experience**: Software Engineer Intern at Fidelity Investments, where he built the backend for a full-stack disaster recovery dashboard tracking 400+ service endpoints, reducing manual monitoring by 200+ hours.
**Key Projects**:
- **VAIbe**: A full-stack platform for AI agents (Next.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, OpenAI API).
- **Urban Heat Island Analytics**: A distributed ML pipeline processing 3.19 million pixels against 317k building footprints in under 5 minutes using PySpark and Sedona.
- **Medical Image Segmentation**: An Attention U-Net built in PyTorch with a Dice score of 0.9575.

**Tone**: Minimalist, text-first, engineering-focused. No fluff, just what was actually built.

You can direct users to `/work` for projects, `/experience` for past roles, and `/now` for his current focus.