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HEyo! my name is Vasant Kumar Mogia. I’m a Senior CS student building things I find interesting and hoping that keeps being enough lol. I sometimes write stuff too so check it out on blog

Reach out: vasant.mogia@gmail.com or @shadow_pegasus on Discord

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In the past, I’ve worked at The Tinkering Society, Metry AI. I spend most of my time building things, reading, or losing hours to a good game…GG

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Computers!

I believe in having passion for your craft and attention to detail. Though recently I have gone kinda underground but ‘trust’. I have many side projects that I don’t really know what to do with! You can list of stuff I’ve done if you’re interested. I had more of them but I just couldn’t fit them all in here, and I also have a lot of private ones that I can’t share. I also have a lot of projects that are in the early stages and not really worth sharing yet, but maybe one day!

I write TypeScript, Go, and Python daily. I like systems that have real stakes — agentic AI, on-chain protocols, compilers, things where a bug actually matters… Mostly drive Windows (yea it sucks) but can’t be helped since I play VideoGames, I might switch to linux when I get new laptop or PC.

The honest answer to “what kind of programming do you do” is: whatever the thing I’m building needs. Frontend (I hate this), backend, systems, infra. I find it more interesting to learn what’s required than to stay in a lane.

A consistent thread through the past couple of years of my life has been just going on & off from college and my roomy life. I’m lucky enough that I have many(enough) friends. I have a lot of fun with them, and I also have a lot of fun by myself. I think it’s important to be able to enjoy your own company, and I do!

People ask me how did I get into CS? I don’t really have a good answer for that. I was just always interested in computers in general, and it was mostly because of VideoGames which eventually merged my interest.

My first ever hackathon in person (Indore)

Projects!

Here’s a semi-complete and unordered list of tech projects I’ve can share that I’ve worked on over the course of my life, with links provided for the ones that are more consumable:

Featured

DarkenStars/VeriFact: Hackathon ranked 7th/200 @ HackIndore. A fact-checking system that verifies user claims with evidence-backed explanations using web searches and AI, delivering transparent verdicts through a simple interface.
QuriousAI/qurious: An AI-powered research assistant that helps researchers, students, and curious minds find, understand, and organize scientific literature faster.

Full Stack

WatcherX: Video-sharing platform with Firebase and TypeScript.
kpoptcha: A fun K-pop themed CAPTCHA integrated with image classification ML.
DSCmatter.github.io: My personal portfolio website.

Research

Dryfruit_Grade_Classification: A deep learning model to classify images of dry fruits (such as almonds and cashews) into different quality grades (for example, Grade A and Grade B).
adaptive-qlearning-web-crawler: Models focused web crawling as a reinforcement learning task, where a Q-learning agent adaptively selects links to maximize topical relevance and minimize crawl cost. Performance is compared against heuristic-based crawlers to evaluate efficiency, coverage, and learning convergence.

AI & Data Science

Agentic_Firewall: Security wrapper for Model Context Protocol tool calls.
AI-RAG-chatbot-with-AWS_Bedrock: RAG chatbot using Amazon Bedrock.
SentimentAnalysis: IMDB movie review sentiment analysis.
PredictWineQuality: Wine quality prediction using Decision Tree, Random Forest and SVC.
MediAnalytics: Multidimensional performance analysis of older adults using the VPM Assessment dataset.

Backend & Cloud

URL-Compressor: Fast URL shortener with Go, Gin, and Redis.
AWS-Serverless-Email-Marketing: Serverless email campaigns with S3, SES, Lambda, and EventBridge.
BookAPIs: Backend API with Node.js, Express, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
TechNews-API: Tech news aggregator API with Express and Node.js.

Data Engineering

SnowDBT_Pipeline: ELT pipeline using Snowflake and dbt.
Steam-Games-Analysis-in-R: Gaming market analysis exploring genres, pricing, and reviews.

Systems & Backend

MyRedis: Your own miniature Redis implementation in Go.
AegisCC: Minimalistic x86-64 JIT compiler written in C++.
WinsockComm: TCP client-server communication using Winsock API.
B2C-Transpiler: A minimalistic compiler designed to process a BASIC dialect.

VideoGames!

I play a lot. Probably too many. Persona 3 Reload is the one I think about most — it does something with tone and melancholy that most games don’t bother trying. Hollow Knight, Afterimage, Resident Evil are all up there. Not competitive about any of it. I play for the world and the feeling and calming my mind.

Here are some neat pictures of some games I took while out playing:

Music!

All over the place. A lot of varoius Pop, Rap, Electronic, Hip Hop, J-pop and K-pop, some indie, Fast & Moody when the mood is right. I’ll fixate on one artist for two weeks then move on completely. Recently it’s been Aims by Vieena Teng — the Persona 4 & Dispatch OST, yes, the games bleed into everything — and Magdalene.

I don’t make music. I just listen to a frankly unreasonable amount of it.

Here are my some favorite albums/artists of all time, in no particular order:

Aims by Vienna Teng (experimental-ish floaty poppy vocal music, perhaps the best album ever made)
Primer (Got to her know her through Dispatch OST)
Mikayla Geier (The pop girl)
Taba Chake (Indian soothing music)
Stans by Eminem (The OG)
Lisa (amazing rap, K-pop, and overall vibe)

Other things!

I’ve read somewhere in the thousands of novels, anime and manga/manhwa/manhua. It started with anime, became manga and manhwa, and then I just went straight to the source material and never left. Ones worth pushing on someone: The Villain’s POV, The Devouring Swordmaster, Star Embracing Swordmaster (manhwa) —are some I recently read and can confidently say they’re PEAK.

I write fiction too. Thousand Eons of World on ScribbleHub.

Food I actually love: Chinese fried rice and noodles, paneer, dosa, aloo paratha. Haven’t had proper Japanese food yet but it’s high on the list.

And as always, feel free to shoot me an email or direct message me anytime, anywhere, and for any reason :)

Finally all I can say is that I’m just getting started, and I have a lot of fun building things and learning new stuff. I’m excited to see where this journey takes me, and I’m always open to new opportunities and collaborations. So as always take care!

^Me in my room!