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title: "Krish Shah | Portfolio (machine-readable)"
description: "Projects, experience modes, and reading list — generated from site data."
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last_updated: "2026-05-28T19:45:15.568Z"
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# Krish Shah — Portfolio (full text)

This file is the canonical **plain-text** export of this portfolio’s structured data. The interactive site lives at [https://krishshah.dev/](https://krishshah.dev/).

## Contact & profiles

- **Email:** hello@krishshah.dev
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/kshah00/
- **LinkedIn:** https://linkedin.com/in/krishshah5/
- **X:** https://x.com/_kshah00
- **Location:** Mumbai / Remote

## Shareable routes

Paths use the public handle `kshah00` (see `VITE_PUBLIC_HANDLE`).

| Route | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `/` | Portfolio home (desktop) or mobile entry |
| `/kshah00` | Engineer card / home |
| `/kshah00/founder` | Founder mode |
| `/kshah00/projects` | Project list |
| `/kshah00/projects/{id}` | Project detail |

## Experience modes (site copy)

### engineer

**Title:** I like understanding how systems behave once they're real.

A lot of my work involves learning a technology well enough to use it on real problems. Recently that has meant offline computer vision, Vision Pro UX for first-time users, ML on small hardware, and full-stack products with fixed deadlines.

**Focus tags:** Computer Vision, AR / visionOS, Spatial Computing, ML / Agents, Gaussian Splats, Edge AI, Full-Stack

**Proof points:**
- ABG Connect runs in production with 30k+ users.
- Built an offline AR + computer vision system for an Indian defence company.
- Built visionOS apps with spatial UX designed for first-time users.
- Prototyped hand tracking on a Raspberry Pi.
- Work has ranged from early R&D to production systems.

### founder

**Title:** Starting a company taught me to look beyond the code.

StudyPal made me pay more attention to pricing, retention, support, distribution, and whether users came back. I still enjoy the technical side most, but I think more carefully now about tradeoffs and what is actually useful.

**Focus tags:** User Research, Lean GTM, Vertical Integration, Automation, Shipping Fast

**Proof points:**
- Co-founded StudyPal—wrote code, set prices, talked to users, made the calls.
- Shipped an education product built around LLM workflows.
- Cut ops costs to near zero using automations.
- Grew to 2,500 users organically—no paid ads.
- Learned a lot from churn, support, and the things that did not work.

## Featured & production projects

### StudyPal (`studypal`)

Study platform for IGCSE students built around how revision actually works: planning, active recall, past papers, and syllabus-specific material.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/studypal.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/studypal.md)
Link: https://studypal.co.in

### AI Inspection for Indian Defence (`engine`)

AR-guided inspection workflow for an Indian defence company. Combined computer vision with spatial overlays, ran fully offline, and had to hold up under strict security constraints.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/engine.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/engine.md)

### ABG Connect (`abg`)

Event platform built for Aditya Birla Group at Parallax. I worked across backend, frontend, cloud infra, and delivery. 30k users, 2k peak DAU, shipped in under two months.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/abg.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/abg.md)
Link: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/abg-connect/id6504823580

### Spatial Experiences (`visionpro`)

Vision Pro experience for ABG's rebranding event: a tabletop 3D model of the Bagru mine, built in three weeks and shown to executives on launch day.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/visionpro.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/visionpro.md)

### Real Estate Virtual Tour (`metaron`)

Spatial capture platform for real estate that turns 360° images into lightweight interactive property tours using Gaussian Splatting.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/metaron.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/metaron.md)

### Vision-Tracked Hand Pose System (`gloves`)

Hand-tracking glove system running on Raspberry Pi hardware, using camera-based marker detection and temporal filtering for real-time pose estimation.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/gloves.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/gloves.md)

## Side projects

### Expenses (`expenses`)

Privacy-first expense tracker built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Track spending, scan receipts with OCR, plan recurring bills, and export reimbursement reports—all on-device with no cloud, no ads, no tracking.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/expenses.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/expenses.md)
Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/expenses-simplified-budgeting/id6740024889

### Animal Rescue Bot (`rescue`)

NLP bot that watched Twitter/X for injured-animal posts and routed them to NGOs. 90%+ accuracy, self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi, used in 100+ real rescues.

Detail: [https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/rescue.md](https://krishshah.dev/llm/projects/rescue.md)
Link: https://x.com/rescue_helper

## Books (reading list on the site)

- **Sapiens** — Yuval Noah Harari. *Why it’s listed:* How stories shape civilizations
- **Economics in One Lesson** — Henry Hazlitt. *Why it’s listed:* Clear thinking about tradeoffs
- **Hooked** — Nir Eyal. *Why it’s listed:* Why habits form and stick
- **Thinking Physics** — Lewis Epstein. *Why it’s listed:* Intuition over equations
- **Street-Fighting Mathematics** — Sanjoy Mahajan. *Why it’s listed:* Estimation as a superpower
- **Elon Musk** — Walter Isaacson. *Why it’s listed:* Intensity, risk, and first principles
- **It's a Numberful World** — Eddie Woo. *Why it’s listed:* Math hiding in plain sight
- **Start with Why** — Simon Sinek. *Why it’s listed:* Purpose drives everything