Open to SWE roles · Fall 2026

I build
real things

// backend · agentic ai · autonomy · neural interfaces

NowApple Cash · Summer '26
PrevApple Pay · 2025
EduUF CS · '26
~/jatin — zsh
$ whoami
jatin verma
$ cat ./focus.txt
backend · ai · robotics · bci
$ uptime
5y building, 0y stopping
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2×
Apple Internships
Pay '25 · Cash '26
1.5K
Siren Users
Spotify-mentored
5
Models On-Device
in SynthIA
34M
Msgs/Day
Discord clone, 1 M2 node
Distributed Systems Agentic AI Autonomous Robotics Brain-Computer Interfaces Distributed Systems Agentic AI Autonomous Robotics Brain-Computer Interfaces

Four lanes,
Seven projects.

01
Backend & iOS
// distributed systems
Siren · iOS
Siren social music feed
▌ social feed
Siren AI music compatibility match - 85% with Tame Impala
● ai match · 85%
shipped · 1.5k users

Siren Music

Co-founded 2024 → April 2026. Social music discovery. 4× award-winning. Spotify-mentored.

4×
Awards Won
97%
Cost ↓
340→45ms
Query Time
▌ recognition 🏆 Dreamer & Doer · UF Big Idea '26 Best AI Startup · UF Big Idea '25 #1 Social · Product Hunt UF Luby Micro-Grant
// system
FLUTTER CLIENT REST NGINX LB GO/GIN BACKEND REDIS CACHE MONGODB ATLAS SPOTIFY API
GoGinFlutterMongoDBRedisAWS EC2Spotify SDK
visit sirenmusic.app →
Apple Pay · Summer 2025
P95 LATENCY · BEFORE → AFTER peak traffic, 24h window 400ms 300ms 200ms 100ms 0 // before: sync // after: kafka 350ms ~45ms 7× FASTER 350 → <50ms
shipped · prod

Apple Pay
Latency Fix

Async Kafka pipeline replacing sync API calls. Fixed a critical Wallet vulnerability.

7×
Faster
10+
Metrics Tracked
Top 10
/ 1,500 teams
// architecture
WALLET API PRODUCE KAFKA TOPIC async CONSUMER failures DEAD LETTER QUEUE
JavaSpring BootKafkaJUnitMockitoPrometheusGrafana
read the apple announcement →
02
AI Engineering
// agentic systems
SynthIA · v2
ABLETON LIVE 12 — BEAT.als
SYNTHIA
make this drop hit harder
✓ added sub-bass at 808Hz
✓ sidechain on track 2
✓ +3dB on master @ drop
▌ thinking · 3 tools called
on-device · v2

SynthIA

5 open-weight models. One agent loop. Fully on-device. "Cursor for Ableton."

5
Models
33
Tools
0
External APIs
// agent loop
USER PLANNER Gemma 4 26B (3.8B active) // step-by-step RETRIEVAL EmbeddingGemma templates · session EARS Demucs (Meta) Basic Pitch (Spotify) Music Flamingo (NV) FUNCTIONGEMMA 270M QLoRA fine-tune · 33 tools PYTHON DISPATCHER ABLETON LIVE OBJECT MODEL · TCP 9877
PythonPyTorchGemma 4QLoRAMCPTCP/RPC
▶ watch the 7-min demo →
PhoneAssistant · launch demo
PhoneAssistant launch video — 2 min demo
▶ 2:00
● LAUNCH DEMO · YOUTUBE
live

PhoneAssistant

Text or call any number. Your AI handles email + calendar.

SMS
+ Voice
2
APIs Wired
∞
Tasks Saved
// architecture
PHONE SMS · VOICE TWILIO webhook PYTHON AGENT Claude API loop + guardrails LangSmith eval GMAIL API CALENDAR API
PythonTwilioGmail APIGoogle CalendarLangSmith
visit phoneassistant.com →
03
Robotics & Autonomy
// drones · slam · sim
S.W.A.M.P. · IPPD Team 13
S.W.A.M.P. autonomous hexacopter
▌ HARDWARE
Gazebo SITL + RViz Point-LIO SLAM trajectory
● SIMULATION · POINT-LIO TRACE
Real-world Point-LIO 3D map reconstruction from the lab
● REAL-WORLD · LAB CAPTURE
capstone · in flight

GatorMatix
Drone

Autonomous indoor 3D mapping hexacopter. I lead the software side.

7
Engineers
3D
LiDAR SLAM
Real
World Mapped
// autonomy stack
3D LiDAR Unitree L2 · 30Hz CAMERA + IMU colorized maps POINT-LIO SLAM tightly-coupled LiDAR-inertial GLOBAL: NAV2 * * explored, not in final LOCAL: EGO-PLANNER trajectory opt · final OFFBOARD CTL (C++) ROS2 Humble · MAVLink PX4 FLIGHT CTL GAZEBO SITL UF HiPerGator HPC Software-in-the-Loop // validates everything // before hardware flies test
C++ROS 2PX4GazeboEGO-PlannerPoint-LIONvBloxMAVLinkUnitree L2HiPerGatorNav2*
04
Brain-Computer Interfaces
// non-invasive · eeg
MindHive · Helmet Rev A
MindHive helmet engineering blueprint — side and top views with dimensional callouts
▌ ENGINEERING DRAWING
prototype

MindHive

Helmet that knows when a soldier is about to microsleep. EEG + haptics + commander dashboard.

85-92%
Drowsiness Acc.
$500K
24mo Seed
$1.7T
Defense TAM '24
// signal pipeline · engineering schematic
MindHive signal pipeline block diagram — Fp1/Fp2/O1/O2 → TI ADS1299-4 ADC → bandpass + IMU artifact rejection → feature extraction → Nordic nRF52840 classifier → haptic + BLE dashboard
C/C++EmbeddedEEG DSPEdge MLTI ADS1299Nordic nRF52840
view the full deck →

The path so far

'24 → apr '26
Siren
co-founder · cto
May–Aug '25
Apple Pay
SWE intern
Aug '25 → now
JWM Eng.
software lead · IPPD
May '26
Graduating
UF · CS

Tools of choice

Languages

Go
Python
Java
Swift
Rust
C / C++
JavaScript
SQL

Backend & Infra

Spring Boot
Gin
Apache Kafka
Redis
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
WebSockets
AWS EC2
Docker
Kubernetes
Nginx
Grafana

AI / ML

PyTorch
Hugging Face
QLoRA
MCP
LangSmith
Claude API
Gemma

Robotics

ROS 2
Gazebo
PX4
MAVLink
Nav2
EGO-Planner
Point-LIO
NvBlox
Isaac Sim

Let's build.