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Building Pomelo · Sr. SWE @ Oracle

VR headsets, AI deepfake and voice agents, archaeology pipelines, profitable SaaS. Shipping Pomelo: AI-generated personalized learning and working at Oracle.

AI FOUNDERSR. SWE @ ORACLEMATH · CS · AI · SPACEUMASS '22
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What I've shipped

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Currently building · Live now

Pomelo — AI Personalized Learning

Tell it what you want to learn and why. Get a structured course built around your exact goal — audio lessons, LaTeX-rendered math, chapter summaries, and an AI tutor that's read every word of your course. No generic content. No textbook PDFs. Just a course that was made for you.

NEXT.JSAI GENERATIONPERSONALIZATIONAUDIO LESSONSAI TUTORVERCEL
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Pomelo — AI personalized course interface

Learn anything, your way

Pomelo generates a full course tailored to your goal — complete with audio lessons, structured chapters, LaTeX-rendered math notation, and an AI chat sidebar that knows exactly what you're studying.

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Archaeology automation · Open source · 2025–26

TARP Lab — Archaeology Pipeline Dashboard

Drone photos in. Georeferenced SU sheets out. A FastAPI + React dashboard for the Tharros Archaeological Research Project that automates the full photogrammetry pipeline — from raw field photos with GCP markers to publication-ready 3D volume models and SU sheet PDFs.

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Raw field photo → Publication-ready SU sheet PDF
Active excavation at Tharros with GCP markers
01 · Field capture
Drone photos + GCP markers on site at Tharros, Sardinia
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TARP Lab Dashboard kanban
02 · Dashboard
The TARP Lab dashboard converts the photos to 3D models and SU documentation for each excavated SU
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3D photogrammetry OBJ mesh
03 · 3D volume model
Poisson-reconstructed OBJ mesh with 3D + 2.5D volumes (1.1M vertices)
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SU Sheet PDF — Tharros 2025
04 · SU sheet PDF
Georeferenced orthophoto + DEM + site context map — publication ready

Built for the Tharros Archaeological Research Project (University of Cincinnati + Lund University).

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Profitable B2C SaaS · Live · 2024–25

Matherium — AI Mock Visa Interviews

AI mock US F1 visa interviews for international students. 5000+ users, 7000+ interviews run — zero paid marketing. Built and shipped MVP in one week.

REACTNEXT.JSSQLAI VOICETAILWIND
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Matherium — AI Mock Visa Interview

Practice makes permanent

AI mock visa interviews trained on real F1 interview patterns. Students get instant feedback, result scores, and specific strengths / weaknesses per answer.

VISIT MATHERIUM →
Contract · Getty Foundation · 2022–24

Pompeii Modeling Project

Led a team of developers on a $250M+ Getty-funded initiative to digitally model Pompeii. Shipped a Gatsby + React + Node web app to encapsulate complex academic data.

GATSBYREACTNODE.JSACADEMIC DATADIGITAL HUMANITIES
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The project

The $250M Getty Foundation-funded P-LOD project is one of the largest digital humanities initiatives in the world. Goal: make 150+ years of Pompeii archaeological data queryable and linked in one place.

What I built

Led technical delivery on a Gatsby + React + Node web app that renders deeply nested academic graph data into navigable, shareable researcher-facing pages.

SHIPPED
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AI Voice Agents + DeepFake Generator

Real-time AI voice agents with a Shopify plugin. Before that: a talking-face deepfake generator for real-time inference on a self-hosted GPU server.

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VR Headset from Scratch

Built a VR headset using a Jetson Nano + TensorFlow Lite and a custom-optimized hand-tracking neural network. Because it sounded like a fun problem.

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Dominican Republic — Cellophane Optimizer

Contract work for a packaging company. Decreased material loss by 20% by shipping a web app to compute optimal cellophane roll cuts using Dynamic Programming.

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMINGREACTNODE.JS
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users · zero paid marketing
7K+
AI sessions run
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Background

My
journey

Currently building Pomelo — AI-generated personalized courses. Tell it what you want to learn and get a structured course with audio, math notation, and an AI tutor built around your exact goal.

Started with math and fell into everything else. Took Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning at grad level during undergrad. The theory gives me the instinct for what's actually possible versus what just sounds hard.

The domain has never mattered — VR hardware, GPU-hosted AI models, archaeological pipelines, B2C SaaS, enterprise agents. Wherever the interesting problem is, that's where I go.

LINKEDIN ↗
2025 →
Founder — Pomelo
AI-generated personalized learning
CURRENTLY BUILDINGLIVENEXT.JSAI GENERATION
2025 →
Senior Software Developer
Oracle
AI AGENTSENTERPRISEPYTHONRECEIPTS / REMITTANCE
2025–26
Automation Engineer — TARP Lab
Tharros Archaeological Research Project
PHOTOGRAMMETRY3D MODELSFASTAPIREACTQGISLIDAR
2024–25
Co-Founder — Matherium AI Visa
1000+ users · Profitable · Zero paid ads
B2C SAASPROFITABLEVOICE AIREACTNEXT.JSSQL
2022–24
Co-Founder — Matherium Voice AI
Real-time voice agents · GPU server
VOICE AIDEEPFAKELANGCHAINFASTAPIGO WEBRTCSELF-HOSTED GPU
2022–24
Web Dev Contractor
Pompeii / Getty Foundation + Dominican Republic
GATSBYREACTNODE.JSDYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
2022
Sales Lead — Interactiva Studios
VR/AR virtual world building startup
VR/ARB2B SALES50+ DEMOS
2022
UMass Amherst — BS Computer Science
GPA 3.9
NEURAL NETS (GRAD)REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (GRAD)MULTIVARIATE CALCULUSLINEAR ALGEBRA
2021
AI Intern — Fidelity FCAT
Fidelity Center for Applied Technology
BERTTENSORFLOWNLPDOCUMENT GENERATION
2020
SWE Intern — Raytheon Technologies
Defense research project
ANGULARFULL STACKDEFENSE
2019
Research Associate — UMass Amherst
ML for chemotherapy optimization
ML RESEARCHCHEMOTHERAPYGENE DATATENSORFLOW
Off the clock

Side
quests

Not everything I do ships to production. Some of it ends up on a podium, and some of it ends up in your feed. I just like trying things I have no business being good at.

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QUEST 01
UMASS

Raced for UMass. Finished third.

First time on a small boat. Could not swim. Had sailed exactly once. Showed up, sent it.

Siddharth and a teammate hiking out on a UMass Amherst sailboat in choppy water
UMass AmherstPhoto: Keith Johnston
podium3rd place
representingUMass Amherst
small-boat experience0 → race day
swim abilitynull
QUEST 02
LINKEDIN

LinkedIn influencer, two years running.

Posted consistently and the feed noticed. At my peak, a each post pulled over 20,000 views.

run2 years
peak, per post20,000+ views
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Always up for a conversation about AI, new product ideas, or why your architecture is subtly wrong.

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