Hi, I'm Ashwani Jha
Building intelligent systems at the intersection of backend engineering, AI, and product. 7+ years turning complex problems into elegant, scalable solutions.
Where I've Built
- Anomaly Detection — Just Walk Out Stores: Built ML-powered anomaly detection systems for Amazon's checkout-free retail technology, identifying irregular patterns across thousands of store events in real-time.
- Alexa Payments: Made payments possible through Alexa — enabling voice-initiated financial transactions across the Alexa ecosystem.
- AWS CloudFormation: Onboarded enterprise customers to CloudFormation, helping them rebuild and modernize their infrastructure as code. Worked directly with customers to migrate complex architectures to AWS.
What I'm Building
Friday AI
A personal AI assistant with a 10-component cognitive architecture inspired by the human brain — Hippocampus (memory), Amygdala (emotional weighting), Prefrontal Cortex (planning), Basal Ganglia (habits), and more. Features reinforcement learning with a dopamine-inspired reward system and multi-agent coordination.
CityTaxis Dashboard
Zero-LLM-cost WhatsApp group analytics for a taxi business. Extracts structured data from group messages to power a live dashboard with driver leaderboards, route heatmaps, earnings tracking, and daily operational insights.
View Live Dashboard →Friday-as-a-Service
An AI assistant SaaS platform that lets anyone deploy their own Friday via WhatsApp. Built on multi-device protocol integration, with Paddle payments, Supabase backend, and a Vercel-hosted frontend. Bring-your-own-brain AI for everyone.
View Landing Page →What I'm Thinking About
Modular Cognitive Architecture for Persistent AI Assistants
ACL/NeurIPS workshop-style paper exploring brain-inspired modular architecture for long-running AI assistants. Proposes a 10-component system with a dopamine-based reinforcement learning loop for behavioral adaptation. PDF coming soon.
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