SOFTWARE / SYSTEMS
INDEPENDENT DEVELOPER [ 01 ]
Kunal WaghFirst-year CSE (AI & ML)MIT Mumbai · Mumbai
I build useful software across local search, Linux systems, and TV discovery.
Explore selected work01 PROJECTS
Three solo projects, each built around a practical problem.
SOLO PROJECT / React Native for Vega
A Fire TV app for finding something you can actually watch in India.
OVERVIEW
A React Native for Vega discovery app that checks streaming, rental, and purchase availability. It combines live TMDB data with an on-device semantic search index and watchlists that persist across restarts.
ENGINEERING NOTEThe bundled index covers 1,198 India-scoped titles. Semantic search returned results in 31–33 ms on the Vega Virtual Device.
SOLO PROJECT / Go
Find files by what you remember, not what they’re named.
$ mem search "the PDF about Linux process scheduling"
[99%] l.pdf
Matches: linux, process
... Linux exposes this >> process << behind splash screens ...OVERVIEW
A local-first file search tool that indexes document text and ranks results with SQLite FTS5. It extracts text from common office formats and PDFs, with an OCR quality gate for printed text in images.
ENGINEERING NOTESearch explains how it parsed a query and reports an honest miss instead of filling the results with unrelated files.
SOLO PROJECT / Rust
Manage Bluetooth devices from a terminal, without shelling out to bluetoothctl.
SIMPLIFIED CONTROL PATH
OVERVIEW
A Rust terminal interface for Linux Bluetooth. It connects to bluetoothd over system D-Bus, supports live device discovery, and provides device actions such as connect, trust, rename, and remove.
ENGINEERING NOTEBackground Bluetooth tasks report events to the application loop over a channel, keeping device work out of the terminal rendering path.
02 RECOGNITION
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Winner · BuildX
MIT Kernel · Tech Club · Built MeM
03 CURRENT CURIOSITIES
How software behaves beneath the interface and the systems that run it.
Indexing, ranking, and making results explain themselves.
Exploring practical ways to make software more useful.
04 ABOUT
I’m a first-year CSE (AI & ML) student at MIT Mumbai. I build software around practical problems: finding a document by its contents, managing Bluetooth devices on Linux, and discovering what’s available to watch in India.
I care about the decisions behind the feature list: clear boundaries, useful fallbacks, and software that behaves predictably.
05 CONTACT