the person

About me

Software engineer, based in Europe. I build things I find genuinely interesting.

Hardik Pandey

Languages

  • Python
  • Rust
  • C#
  • JavaScript

AI / ML

  • RAG pipelines
  • FAISS
  • SentenceTransformers
  • llama-cpp-python
  • AutoGluon
  • Streamlit

Security

  • ELK Stack
  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • SIEM

Tools & Other

  • Git
  • Unity
  • Google Sheets API
  • Docker

I'm a software engineer with a fairly wide range — I've built AI systems, dug into security operations, written a programming language in Rust, and shipped a game in Unity. Not the typical career path, but that's sort of the point.

Most of my projects start with a question I can't shake. "Can I build an AI assistant that runs entirely on my laptop?" became AI-Companion. "Are emojis actually valid syntax?" became emojinterp. Building something is usually the fastest way to understand it properly — faster than reading about it, at least.

Right now I'm most interested in local AI — systems where your data never leaves your machine. There's something more honest about that. No API keys, no rate limits, no one storing your queries. Just a model running on your hardware.

I'm based in UK and always open to interesting work or conversations. If you're building something unusual, I'd like to hear about it.

currently into

Local LLM inference, GGUF quantization, semantic memory systems, and figuring out what detection engineering actually looks like day-to-day.