Hello

you can just do things

Anudeep in the back of a Waymo in downtown Austin

Anudeep Adiraju

engineer • builder • Austin, TX

AI engineer at Gimmie | Technical fellow at Handshake

Working on trypolaris.dev — one calm dashboard for your tasks, inbox, calendar, and agents.

I live in Austin and I like it here. Breakfast tacos, too much time on Lady Bird Lake, and a car with nobody in the driver’s seat taking me downtown. It’s a good city to build things in.

I learn by taking things apart. Radios, codebases, research systems. I want to know why something works before I trust that it does.

I build for the person on the other side. A researcher testing a study message, someone hunting for a gift, a reviewer checking an agent’s run. The stack matters less than whether they got what they needed.

Working on

Polaris is my personal mission control. Tasks, inbox, calendar, habits, and whatever my agents did overnight, all on one screen. I got tired of opening six tabs to answer one question: what actually needs me today? So I’m building the thing I wanted. Take a look →

Contributions till September 23, 2026

1,826 contributions in the last year

Do I use AI for everything? Mostly for checking it.

Previously at UTSA Mobile Lab — research software for a study that talked to real participants. I built EzMsg so researchers could test a conversation before it went live, and helped teach the software engineering lab.

Now at Gimmie and Handshake — agents that recommend from real catalogs, and tests that catch coding agents when a convincing answer is still wrong.

Things I’ve built

Building @polaris — tasks, inbox, calendar, and agents in one calm dashboard.

Built @ezmsg — a workspace to prepare and preview study messages before they reach a participant.

Prototyped exec.ai — turning a request into a plan you can read, change, and approve.

Open-sourced ContextX — memory tools that search documents and past conversations.

Read the Rig Veda in one place — Sanskrit, transliteration, and translation side by side.

Rebuilt Thanjavur — a temple from repeating tiers, stone materials, and light.

See all the work →

Off the keyboard

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I take a lot of pictures, mostly of the sky. More photos →