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Hi, I'm
Rishikesh.

I build agents that remember.

AI & ML engineer and final-year CSE (AI & ML) student at KMIT, Hyderabad. Co-inventor on a published patent, IEEE author, and founder of DUM-E Labs.

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Patent
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IEEE Xplore
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Local LLM
27B on 16 GB
Open source
SWOC S7
Portrait of Rishikesh Varma
Hyderabad, India

01 · About

I like AI systems that hold up under scrutiny.

I'm K. Sri Rishikesh Varma, an AI engineer who builds agentic systems in Python: tool-using agents, local LLM runtimes, multi-agent orchestration with MCP and A2A, and the eval and tracing tooling that shows whether they actually work.

I don't trust a number until I know how it was produced. The eval harness I wrote for my own LLM compiler caught four bugs in my code, including a validator that passed everything because it read the wrong JSON path.

Right now I'm building DUM-E, a private AI agent that runs entirely on my own GPU, at my lab DUM-E Labs, and MCP-Shield, a firewall for AI agents, as my final-year project. I'm also exploring speech for Indian languages, starting with Telugu text-to-speech.

  • StudyingB.Tech CSE (AI & ML), KMIT · 2023–27
  • NextGATE 2027 (DS & AI) → Master's in AI
  • LanguagesEnglish, Telugu · learning German (A1)
  • Off-screenDistrict-level tennis runner-up
  • Daily driversClaude Code, Antigravity, llama.cpp
  • HardwareRTX 5060 Ti, 16 GB, running 27B models

Founder · DUM-E Labs

Memory that thinks.

A research lab working on neuromorphic silicon where storage is the processor, and brain-native AI that learns while it runs.

Final-year project

MCP-Shield

An inline firewall that stops prompt-injected tool traffic before it reaches an AI agent.

Preparing for

GATE 2027 · DS & AI

Then a Master's in AI and a research-focused career.

02 · Selected work

Things I've built.

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03 · Skills

A toolbox for agents that think.

Drag the sphere to spin it. Pick a group to light up what I use for it.

04 · Journey

Where I've been.

  1. Apr – Aug 2026

    Data Engineer · Ties Verse

    Remote · Hyderabad, India

    • Built automated Python scrapers and API aggregation pipelines that collected and normalised news sources for tracking and community distribution.
    • Ran data-research workshops on geopolitical analysis and global trends using structured intelligence-mapping datasets.
  2. 2023 – 2027

    B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering (AI & ML)

    Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology (KMIT) · Hyderabad · CGPA 7.5

    • Tech Head, Riti Upcycling Club.
    • Final-year project: MCP-Shield, a semantic firewall for the Model Context Protocol (4-member team).
  3. 2023

    Class XII (Intermediate)

    Narayana Junior College · Hyderabad · 86.6%

  4. 2021

    Class X (SSC)

    FIITJEE World School · Hyderabad · GPA 10/10

05 · Research & recognition

On paper, and on the record.

Indian patent application · published · co-inventor

PhishNinja: An NLP-Driven Framework for Phishing and Spam Detection Using Explainable AI

Application No. 202541111904 A, India. 98% accuracy with quantized on-device inference.

IEEE Xplore · DELCON · author

Phishing Detection: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Trends

Published in IEEE Xplore, document 11400192. Read it

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  • Open source

    Social Winter of Code, Season 7 · Contributor

  • Certification

    Generative AI / Deep Learning Specialization · IIT Hyderabad

  • Leadership

    Tech Head, Riti Upcycling Club · KMIT

  • Sport

    District-level tennis runner-up

  • Research interests

    Agent securityLocal LLM inferenceLLM evaluation Small language modelsTelugu speech (ASR / TTS)

06 · Contact

Let's build something
that thinks.

rishikeshvarma9854@gmail.com +91 63018 52709
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