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Karthikeyan NG
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roleCTO & CISO · Engineer · Author · Speaker
tradingperpetual futures · models public on feaws
basedMadurai → Bengaluru → Dubai
uptime16+ years shipping
2007 first blog post
2009 FOSSConf · first talk
2012 Windows 8 AppFest
2015 hackathon streak begins
2017 TEDx speaker
2018 2 books published
2022 CTO @ Pi42 (crypto exchange)
2025 CTO & CISO @ Vision · feaws begins
2026 DailyVox · this site
2009 FOSSConf · first talk
2012 Windows 8 AppFest
2015 hackathon streak begins
2017 TEDx speaker
2018 2 books published
2022 CTO @ Pi42 (crypto exchange)
2025 CTO & CISO @ Vision · feaws begins
2026 DailyVox · this site
books2 (Mobile ML & AI Projects)
trophies18× hackathon · 1× TEDx
streak3+ years #healthywealthy · 10k+ steps daily
stackcrypto · AI · trading · stablecoins
▸ Engineer, author, speaker. Builder-architect by reflex.
▸ Stablecoin settlement rails by day; quant trading in public on nights and weekends.
▸ Crypto + AI + trading systems. Boring systems win.
▸ Optimizing for: structural advantage. autonomy. compounding leverage.
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2026-07-01 [machine-learning · career] The machine learning career path in India nobody draws honestly 2026-07-01 [machine-learning · students] Machine learning projects for final year: how to pick one that actually helps you 2026-07-01 [ai · spec-driven-development] Spec-driven development is the verification bottleneck with a name 2026-06-29 [ai · coding-agents] Independent quality gates for coding agents: stop letting the agent grade its own homework 2026-06-29 [on-device-ai · ios] The privacy-first on-device AI app architecture behind DailyVox 2026-06-29 [trading · quant] Why my backtest works but live trading loses money 2026-06-26 [ai · claude-code] The bottleneck is me 2026-06-25 [feaws · trading] what I learned from running a public PnL
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