00 / home
dxb ↔ hyd
applied ai engineer · music producer
Manas Karra.
I build agentic systems at Deriv and release hip-hop production as sledg3r—two sides of the same curious brain.
- now
- Applied AI Engineer at Deriv
- focused on
- Multi-agent systems & useful tools
- after hours
- sledg3r · 1M+ plays on YouTube
01 / selected work
4 projects
from idea to working
Selected work.
- 01apr 2026
gitbiz
agentic researchLLM-powered discovery of GitHub repos with credible paths to revenue. Reads stars, issues, and contributor signal to surface open-source projects that could plausibly become businesses.
- 02mar 2026
verd
multi-agent aiMulti-LLM debate engine. Runs the same question past multiple models, surfaces where they disagree, and returns a higher-confidence answer with its reasoning trail intact.
- 03jan 2025
RagaXonic
generative musicA 3-layer LSTM that generates polyphonic MIDI by blending Hindustani ragas with Western chord progressions. Trained on MIDI sequences and wrapped in a Gradio UI with temperature and note-count controls.
02 / field notes
ai + music
thinking in public
Latest writing.
- 12 min read
I made 5 AI models argue with each other
What happens when models don't just answer in parallel but actually challenge each other's reasoning. Benchmarked on 50 real PRs.
- 2 min read
Why this site has two sides
A short note on building one home for applied AI, hip-hop production, and everything I learn between the two.