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Durgesh Gowda C

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Bengaluru, India

Hi, I’m Durgesh. I teach computers to pay attention. 👀

I’m an AI/ML engineer from Bengaluru who builds the kind of AI that has to work outside a notebook: noisy camera feeds, mission-critical uptime, and users who need answers in milliseconds, not “after the next epoch.”

Where that has taken me so far

🛰️ ISRO (ISTRAC): I built an NLP search pipeline that gave scientists 10x faster access to satellite telemetry. They stopped waiting for their own data, which seemed like a fair outcome.

🎥 Indian Navy (INICAI): I built a real-time multi-camera person re-identification system on NVIDIA DeepStream. It tracks someone who walks out of one camera and into another without losing who they are, which is harder than it sounds and rarer than it should be.

🏆 Hackathons: I led a team to 6th of 341 teams (top 40 nationally) at CIDECODE with a deepfake-detection system, and I’ve mentored teams at Tata Elxsi TELIPORT.

What I build in the open

FoundYou: multi-camera person Re-ID with YOLO, ByteTrack, OSNet and FAISS, plus a three-stage identity-matching approach. It’s also the subject of my research paper.
RoleSense: an AI resume screener that matches resumes to job descriptions, with a Streamlit UI so no recruiter has to touch a notebook.
ArtAttack: a first-person art-gallery vandalism game in Unity. Yes, really. Yes, with custom paint shaders.
Newton-Gravity: an OpenGL simulation of the apple and Newton story, because physics deserves better animations.
Simple Icons: brand icons for an open-source library used around the world.

Why sponsor me?

Because good open source takes time, and I’m doing mine alongside a very full calendar. Your sponsorship helps me:

Keep my repositories maintained, documented and actually runnable
Publish research with code you can reproduce
Build new open tools for vision and language (and ship fewer “works on my machine” moments)
Keep the compute and coffee supply stable

Whether it’s monthly or a one-time gesture, thank you. You’re helping a bug-hunter keep hunting, and I promise to write fewer bugs than I fix.

First solve the problem. Then optimize it. (Ken Thompson, and also my entire workflow.)

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@durgeshgowdac

Ten sponsors, ten reasons to keep my repos documented, maintained and (mostly) bug-free. Help me get to double digits. I’ll put it toward compute, hosting and the milk [I don't drink coffee] that powers my late-night debugging. $50 a month keeps the experiments running.

Featured work

  1. durgeshgowdac/GlyphScholar

    Multimodal RAG for PDFs — parses text, tables, formulas, and page images, then answers questions about them through a Chainlit chat UI.

    Python 1
  2. durgeshgowdac/MLXnarrator

    Give your screen recordings a voice. Local text-to-speech, subtitles and render on your Mac. Kokoro TTS + Whisper + ffmpeg on Apple Silicon (MLX). No cloud, no API keys.

    Shell
  3. durgeshgowdac/RoleSense

    AI-powered resume screening app — matches resumes to job descriptions using TF-IDF similarity and a trained ML classifier, with a Streamlit UI for batch screening, pass/fail thresholds, and visual …

    Jupyter Notebook
  4. durgeshgowdac/FoundYou

    FoundYou — Multi-Camera Person Re-Identification

    Python
  5. durgeshgowdac/Newton-Gravity

    Newton-Gravity - An OpenGL simulation of the Newton and Apple anecdote

    C++
  6. durgeshgowdac/ArtAttack

    ArtAttack - An Art Gallery Vandalism Project

    ShaderLab

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