Software engineer based in Bengaluru, India.

I work mainly with Laravel/PHP, React/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, and C#/.NET, building production web applications, internal tools, APIs, background jobs, and operational workflows.

Outside work, I spend most of my time learning by building. Right now, that includes speech ML, ASR, LLM engineering, evaluation, agents, and developer tooling.

My day-to-day engineering work includes:

• Backend APIs and business logic
• React-based applications
• SQL and database work
• Background jobs and queues
• Notifications and scheduled workflows
• OCR-assisted workflows
• Internal tools and operational workflows
• Production debugging and deployment

I enjoy working on problems where understanding the system and its real-world behavior matters as much as writing the code.

MendSpeech is the project I'm using to learn speech ML and ASR through hands-on work.

I'm currently working through audio fundamentals, STFT, log-Mel features, WER/CER, ASR concepts, and understanding how speech systems behave when audio is damaged.

A private project I'm currently building. I'm keeping the problem space and implementation details private for now.

I'm currently spending time on:

• Speech ML
• ASR
• LLM engineering
• LLM evaluation
• Agent workflows
• Model serving
• Developer tooling

I prefer learning these topics by building small systems, testing them, and understanding where they fail rather than only reading about them.

Currently reading Inference Engineering from Baseten Books to understand the systems behind serving generative AI models in production.

https://www.baseten.co/inference-engineering/

Python PHP TypeScript JavaScript C# SQL

Laravel React FastAPI ASP.NET Core

MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle Redis Docker Git GitHub Actions Linux

I built an autonomous GitHub issue resolver during the HSRFC × OpenClaw Builders Hackathon, where the project won first place.

Read about the project

I share what I'm building and learning most actively on X.

• X: @ashwinhegde19
• Blog: ashwinhegde19.github.io
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ashwinhegde19