Pratham Panchal

ALMOST

Most of my code exists because a tool almost did what I needed.

Pratham Panchal, software engineer About me

Scrubffmpeg, minus the terminal.
NeatStops the Downloads folder from becoming a landfill.
Prats-DeckA tiny touch screen that runs my desk.
OmniCompilerOne debugger for five languages.
FloatChatAsk the ocean a question. Get a map back.
iDEA HackathonA bank service desk that knows who is asking.
MalShieldDrop in a file. Find out if it bites.
Local LLM labWhich local model is actually worth running?
ChronicleYour whole Spotify history, not one year of it.
AlgomotionSorting and pathfinding, one step at a time.
Season ticket
  • FootballBarcelona
  • CricketIndia, and RCB
  • BadmintonI play this one
  • F1Ferrari
  • TennisWhoever is in form
BOMPNQMumbai to PuneGujarati at heart
Right now
  • Local models
  • Agent harnesses
  • Breaking both
  • Then fixing both
In a hurry? One page

The desk

Under the wall. Pick something up.

Pune, --:--

Sport

SportMy side
FootballBarcelona
CricketIndia, and RCB
BadmintonMe, on a good day
F1Ferrari. Leclerc and Max.
TennisFederer first. Djokovic too, now.

I watch all of it and play what I can. Badminton is the one I am actually decent at.

Games

Most playedValorantPlatinum 1 now. Platinum 3 at my peak.

Story

  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Spider-Man Remastered
  • GTA V
  • Batman Arkham trilogy
  • F1 25
  • God of War
  • Uncharted
  • Resident Evil 4

Co-op

  • Overcooked
  • Split Fiction
  • It Takes Two

First install Counter-Strike 1.6

Basic FPS player, I know. The story games started when the new PC arrived.

Anime

  1. Hunter x Hunter
  2. Attack on Titan
  3. Naruto
  4. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
  5. Jujutsu Kaisen
  6. Bakuman
  7. Code Geass
  8. Mob Psycho 100
  9. Re:Zero

I have lost count. These are the ones I would make you watch.

Music

69,000+

Minutes in one year. Something is always playing.

The PC

CPU
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K20 cores. Most of them watch me type.
GPU
RTX 5070 12GBThe reason for everything else on this list.
RAM
32GB DDR5 6000Bought when RAM cost about the same as gold.
Storage
2TB WD Black NVMeHalf of it is already games.
Board
MSI B860Nobody has ever asked about the board.
Cooling
360mm liquid coolerMostly so it looks fast when it is idle.
Wallet
EmptySee above.

I have had a computer since I was a kid. This is the one I wanted the whole time.

The cube

45.00seconds

On my best day. Not fast. Still mine.

Right now

  • running open models on my own GPU
  • swapping models between agent harnesses
  • seeing what breaks
  • building the next thing for this wall
  • reading And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
Pratham Panchal, arms crossed, in a black shirt

What I build with

Python in FloatChat, MalShield, Local LLM lab, Chronicle, OmniCompiler, iDEA Hackathon, Prats-Deck

Servers and data
FastAPI, Node, Express, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DuckDB, ChromaDB
Models
llama.cpp, LightGBM, Random Forest, Whisper, DeepFace, MCP
Close to the metal
Raspberry Pi Pico, Arduino, ffmpeg, YARA, Tauri
On screen
React, Vite
Every day
Git, Docker, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Vitest, Linux, Windows

Orange is what I reach for first. The number is how many projects on the wall use it.

Me

I'm Pratham. I write software for a living, and at home I build small tools, mostly because something I was using almost did the job.

Born and raised in Mumbai, in Pune right now, Gujarati at heart.

I've had a computer since I was a kid, so I'm picky about my setup. When I'm not building something I'm watching sport, playing it, or deep in an anime.

So far

  1. 2026 to nowBarclaysSoftware Engineer
  2. Jan to Jun 2026Colgate Global Business ServicesData Engineer intern
  3. Jun to Jul 2025BarclaysTechnology summer intern
  4. 2022 to 2026K. J. Somaiya College of EngineeringB.Tech, Information Technology

CGPA 9.54, third in the branch, with honours in cyber security.