vedanth@cmu-ai:~$ ./profile
name Vedanth Ramanathan
school Carnegie Mellon University
major Artificial Intelligence
focus AI systems · civic tech · databases · security · quant infra
status building, testing, iteratingI build systems that turn messy real-world data into usable decisions — across civic data, agents, infrastructure, security, and markets.
PID SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
001 CivicDuty Tracking bills, meetings, votes, and local civic signals
002 Agent Portal Personal assistant interface with tool use + MCP-style orchestration
003 DBMS Engine MVCC/OCC, B+ trees, buffer pools, and query execution internals
004 Market Pipeline Producer-consumer research system for BTC volatility drift
005 LLM Jailbreaking OWASP-informed testing on common SaaS/API failure pointslearning agentic workflows · DBMS internals · API security · vision systems
building CivicDuty · assistant portal · academic DBMS · market-data pipelines
reading systems papers · security writeups · market microstructure notes
debugging brittle abstractions, hidden bottlenecks, and suspiciously green tests

