Harness Engineering: terminus-cli
May 21, 2026
Hey, I'm Sid.
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AI Engineer
RAG · Agents · Evals · Observability
Production systems, not prototypes.
Writing
Notes from the build.
Experience
Production work in AI teams.
Binoloop
Machine Learning Engineer
Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
- •Shipped a production RAG system with BM25, dense retrieval, query expansion, reranking, and conversational memory, improving retrieval relevance by 40% and user engagement by 25%.
- •Created an LLM prompt-optimization pipeline with chain-of-thought and few-shot examples, improving regulation and urban-planning document analysis accuracy by 35%.
- •Cut response latency by 78% and memory footprint by 71% via connection pooling, leaner data structures & pipeline refactoring.
- •Automated evaluation with an LLM-as-a-Judge framework using GPT-4.1, reducing manual annotation effort by 80%.
Lamarr
Artificial Intelligence Intern
Sep 2024 – Mar 2025
- •Built FastAPI services to automate scraping of 10,000+ Indian court case files, improving legal data accessibility by 60%.
- •Designed a LangGraph multi-agent system for contract analysis, identifying adversarial clauses with 85% precision.
- •Delivered a production RAG pipeline with hybrid search for a legal Q&A chatbot, improving answer relevance by 40%.
- •Implemented document preprocessing and chunking workflows for long-form legal text, improving retrieval consistency and reducing noisy context in downstream contract and case-law analysis.
Findability Sciences
Data Science Intern
Jan 2024 – Jun 2024
- •Built an end-to-end time-series forecasting pipeline with XGBoost and feature engineering, achieving 98.8% accuracy on a 10,000+ row dataset.
- •Developed hierarchical classification datasets across five business domains using custom ontologies.
- •Created model evaluation dashboards and error-analysis reports to compare forecast performance across segments.
Reading
Unslopping my brain.
ThinkingOwned
The Book of Clarity
Paras Chopra
A brilliant distillation of entrepreneurial lessons from the founder of Wingify. It uses first principles thinking to break down complex business and product challenges into clear, actionable mental models.
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ThinkingOwned
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
A brilliant reminder that financial success is rarely about intelligence or math, but mostly about behavior, ego, and your relationship with time.
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Gaming
Games I return to.
Steam profile
sidmanale
Checking profile
- Library
- 43
- Playtime
- 2,905h
Most played
Hours logged- 01
2,100hCounter-Strike 2
Shooter
- 02
104hThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
RPG
- 03
85hElden Ring
Soulslike
Activity
GitHub and toolchain.
Stack I use
Technologies I work with to build AI systems and applications
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