The Omprakash Times
Code · Systems · Craft · Printed in pixels, never in ink
Building systems that matter.
Four years building things people actually use — AI systems inside a space agency, a fleet platform for a thousand students, browser extensions running on two continents.
Omprakash Jat is the kind of person who fixes problems he isn't being paid to fix. In his third year of engineering in Bangalore, the college bus system was driving him — and a thousand other students — quietly mad. Buses showed up late, or not at all, and nobody had any idea where they were. So he built YellowShuttl: sub-second GPS tracking at one-metre precision, route optimisation, geofencing across twenty buses. A thousand daily active users. No budget. No blueprint. A research paper on the underlying traffic prediction model followed almost as an afterthought.
That pattern — see the problem, build the fix, figure out what it means later — has stayed with him. He co-founded Blink42, shipped products people actually used, and then took a job he didn't expect to care about as much as he did.
At ISRO, India's national space agency, he was handed a specific problem: scientists were losing hours every week to meeting notes and buried documentation. He built the organisation's first AI meeting platform — real-time multi-speaker transcription, intelligent summaries, a chat interface for querying past discussions — all running on an air-gapped HPC cluster with zero external internet access. Hundreds of users from day one. He became the first apprentice in ISRO's history to receive the Token of Appreciation Award.
He also adapted ISRO's patented satellite crack-detection algorithm — built to spot micro-faults in solar panels from orbit — to read bone fractures in X-rays. Published at GLEX 2025 in New Delhi. ISRO offered a permanent position. He turned it down. There was still a company to finish building.
"The air-gap at ISRO was the best thing that ever happened to me. You can't google your way out of a problem when the internet doesn't exist."
He's now in Munich, studying Data and Society at TUM — questions about what technology actually does to the communities it touches. He's building navigation systems for a Moon Rover with WARR Robotics. He still moves faster than the organisations he works inside, which probably isn't going to change.
Reparo AI
A multi-modal AI platform for repair diagnostics — voice, vision, and text unified. When expert knowledge retires, it shouldn't retire with the person.
SiBi — Should I Buy It?
An AI extension that reads Amazon listings and tells you what the reviews won't. Chrome + Firefox, privacy-first, no data stored.
AI Meeting Assistant
Real-time transcription, AI summarisation, and document querying — fully air-gapped HPC cluster at ISRO. 100+ concurrent users from launch day.
YellowShuttl
Fleet management for a thousand students. Sub-second GPS, route optimisation, geofencing. Built in college. Shipped. Watched it work.
Medical Imaging AI
Adapted ISRO's patented satellite crack-detection algorithm to diagnose bone fractures from X-rays. Published at GLEX 2025.
LinkedConnect
Find out where your LinkedIn connections actually are. A geographic map, not a flat list. Embedded directly in LinkedIn.
IPHACON Conference App
Conference management for an international medical event — QR check-ins, AI photo albums, and push notifications for 1000+ attendees.
The Nudge Project
A life management app that plans backwards from goals, not forwards from habits. ML-based notification timing.
Three organisations.
Two startups.
One space agency.
One student team.
And a move to Munich.
AI, distributed systems, and what technology actually does to the communities it touches — questions that have been running underneath everything for years.
Building a Moon Rover — LiDAR-based autonomous navigation in new terrain + Wi-Fi Command & Control system for two-way communication, data transfer and command relay.
Multi-modal AI for repair diagnostics. When the expert retires, the knowledge shouldn't retire with them.
AI Meeting Platform · Medical Imaging for space medicine · Token of Appreciation Award — first apprentice in ISRO history to receive it.
1000+ DAU apps · YellowShuttl · SiBi · LinkedConnect · IPHACON. Built products people actually use, then left to go back to school.
Token of Appreciation Award
First apprentice in ISRO history to receive this recognition. Awarded for the AI Meeting Platform that transformed how ISRO scientists document and retrieve institutional knowledge.
Special Appreciation Award
The first-ever recipient of an award created specifically to recognise the unique impact of YellowShuttl on the campus community. Over 1000 students benefiting daily.
Best Social Project Award
1,000+ students benefiting daily. Recognised for most impactful social technology project of the year at the institution.
GLEX 2025 — Research Published
Co-authored the MAIDS paper for the Global Space Exploration Conference. Research on adapting satellite imaging algorithms for autonomous space medicine.
Srushti-2022 State Finalist
Top 5 of 52 competing university teams in the state-level engineering innovation challenge. Among the highest-placed teams.