Akshara Hegde he/him
Full Stack Engineer and Opensource Contributor
I am a full-stack engineer based in Bengaluru, India, specializing in building AI-powered web applications and developer tools. I work extensively with Nuxt, Python, and modern LLM ecosystems to create scalable, automation-first products.
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KickDNA Author
AI-powered FIFA World Cup personality quiz that matches you to a national team.
RSS Herald Author
A newspaper-style RSS feed reader with customizable reading themes and browser text-to-speech.
Rydsta Author
Turn your trip exports into a shareable year-in-rides story — stats, route maps, rider personality, and heatmaps, all in your browser.
Recent articles
Tracking Compromised Packages Across 9 Ecosystems with ThreatPkg
ThreatPkg is a free, public dashboard for tracking compromised open-source packages and supply-chain incidents across 9 ecosystems — no sign-up, no paywalls.
Why I Built a Minimal Music Player
The story behind BW Player; a minimal monochrome music player with AI SmartMix, multi-source streaming, and a sparse UI over a serious domain layer.
Inbox Zero, Partly Thanks to AI - How I Built an Email Assistant That Doesn't Suck
How I built ai-email, a privacy-first AI Gmail assistant using Ollama, Node.js, and Nuxt 3 that summarizes threads, drafts replies, and flags urgent emails.