Seattle, WA · SDE II at Amazon · Building Jarvis and Oats

I make computers listen.

Eight years building Android, backend and desktop systems, four of them at Amazon. Nights and weekends I build local-first AI tools: Jarvis, a voice assistant now running in 172 countries, and Oats, a meeting notetaker that never leaves your Mac.

Akshay Kumar
25+
Apps launched
10M
Players on one game, 3 months
$7.8M
Saved in a month at Amazon
172
Countries running my software
716
GitHub stars across projects
1B
Catalog items in a vector store I built
What I am building now

Two products, one idea: the model can be anyone's, the memory has to be yours.

A voice assistant that operates your Mac. You talk, it answers, types, and acts. Six model providers on your own key, 24+ connected services over MCP, and a memory that lives as files on your disk. It runs overnight routines while you sleep. MIT licensed, shipping on Mac, iPhone and Android.

12,888
Launched it
275,917
Voice sessions
302,660
Agent actions
98,621
Routine runs
622
Stars, 107 forks
8%
Day 30, vs 4% norm

Product analytics, pulled 19 August 2026. Countries measured over the last 30 days.

Source on GitHub

A meeting notetaker that never joins the call. Oats hears the meeting through your Mac, separates the speakers, and turns the transcript plus your own jottings into a clean write-up. Whisper and Ollama run locally out of the box, or bring a key for Claude, Gemini or OpenAI. Free, no account, and nothing you say reaches a server.

Mac and WindowsNo bot in the call100% on deviceFree forever, no accountLive on Product Hunt

Earlier: Bharat Online and Campus, two apps built and launched in 15 days, used daily by 100+ coaching institutes and 10,000+ students. Vocaboo, a vocabulary builder for GMAT and GRE with a smartwatch companion.

Where I have shipped

Amazon2022 → now
SDE II, Seattle

Led the NDS region to silo migration: 50+ new silos and 6 new pipelines with no data inconsistency.

Built the Deployment Simulator that found bottlenecks before real devices shipped, worth $7.8M in a month.

Cut device failure from 14.7% to 1% in six weeks on the DCA app, and cleared PCI compliance.

Designed the hierarchical prompt search framework inside the Pandora SDK, used by classification and generative services at Amazon catalog scale.

Mentored engineers on the team, including an intern who converted to a full time SDE role.

Powerplay2021 → 2022
Senior Android, Bengaluru

Guided five Android engineers. Set up the localisation pipeline and took 20+ hours of manual work out of every language.

Fixed the memory leaks and cut the app memory profile by roughly 50MB.

Zupee2020 → 2021
Android, Gurugram

Designed and built the gameplay for a new title that reached 10 million players in three months.

Wrote the client logging library (write, cache, upload) and tuned complex UI hierarchies for low end devices on slow networks.

BharatLend2019 → 2020
Co-founder, Bangalore

An Android app for local money lenders to track their loans. Interviewed 100+ lenders and set the roadmap from what they said.

100+ daily active lenders, 3,000 active loans, ₹25+ crore recorded on it.

Schlumberger2018 → 2019
Software Engineer, Pune

Built the Angular web app that mapped on premises data into the cloud ingestion agent, and closed code repository vulnerabilities under CSQP.

Recognition and service

Winner, Amazon CPP HackathonNov 2025

Designed and built a horizontally scalable vector store and ingested one billion catalog items into it, then built the search interface on top. It lets anyone retrieve semantically similar products across every category in the catalog, at catalog scale and interactive latency.

Judge, Claro Awards2026

Scored ten assigned nominations on innovation, methodology, execution and results. The portal shipped no criterion definitions, so I wrote the band anchors and rubric first, then ran a calibration pass over the whole cohort before submitting.

Jarvis adopted by developers worldwide2025 → now

622 stars and 107 forks on GitHub, MIT licensed, with outside contributors and 172 countries in the last thirty days of use.

Oats launched on Product Hunt2026

Local-first meeting notes for Mac and Windows, launched publicly and free.

Second place, code.fun.do2017

Microsoft hackathon at IIT Roorkee, and qualified for the India finals.

Top 10 of 85 teams, Aarambh startup bootcamp2016

IIT Roorkee Heritage Fund. Also Product Lead of the campus Mobile Development Group for three years.