Hey all!

I'm Rishikesh "Blaine" Anand. I work as an AI software and full-stack engineer, and I care most about agentic systems, ML platforms, and shipping things that hold up in production. I like getting from a real problem to something people can actually use—clearly, reliably, and without me hand-waving the hard parts.

I still think of myself as someone who can stretch across a stack: I'll dig in until I understand the problem well enough to pick a sane approach, and I get a lot of satisfaction from learning tools I didn't know last month. I got into programming early—QBasic in fourth grade—and later I was the kid reading decompilation write-ups about bugs in the original Pokémon games. (I still think that's a good rabbit hole if you have a weekend). Today I write a lot of TypeScript and JavaScript, but my favorite language to reach for is still Rust, even when it makes me work for it.