ashwanth kumaravel
chennai, in.
about
tldr; final year cs student at vit, spending most of my time in systems and security.
i like building things that need to actually hold up — consensus protocols, cryptographic primitives, ai agents that make decisions under uncertainty.
recent builds: a post-quantum secure email client with a signed kem-dem architecture, a raft-inspired consensus protocol for iot edge networks, and a handful of rust services tying it all together.
python, typescript, rust — whichever fits the problem.
most of it ends up on github.
distributed systems, applied cryptography, and small tools that ship.
projects
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2026
distributed consensus for iot edge networks
a lightweight, raft-inspired consensus protocol for heterogeneous edge devices — energy-aware and partition-tolerant.
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2026
support-desk triage environment for agent evals
openenv-compatible triage environment built with fastapi and deterministic graders, for training and evaluating agents.
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2026
post-quantum secure email client
signed kem-dem architecture using nist-standardized algorithms — confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity against both classical and quantum threats.
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2026
rust workspace: daemon, discord bot, macos app
a background daemon paired with a discord bot and a macos client, sharing one rust workspace.