Applied AI portfolio

The whole system
around the AI.

A model is one part of a useful product. My independent work connects extraction, context, tools, evaluation, privacy and human review. Explore the systems I build, the ideas I publish and the broader 100+ app portfolio behind my product practice.

50
people led through
three engineering managers
2,000+
engineers enabled
across 100+ teams
100+
independent apps
across platforms
20+
AI books and
engineering field guides

Personal projects and technical practice

AI expertise you can inspect.

I build through LaunchDesk LLC, founded in 2026. The work below distinguishes application features, independent experiments and educational tools.

01

Evidence and evaluation

KaiInbox

An extracted answer needs evidence.

Financial-email workflows turn receipts, bills, renewals and refunds into actions. I built source-evidence validation and a 61-case deterministic regression suite. An optional structured LLM extraction hook requires claims to match source-text anchors.

Source validation · Regression testing · LLM extraction

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02

AI privacy and operational controls

Sanctuary

Protect sensitive information before a model sees it.

I implemented PII detection and policy checks before model-provider calls, tenant-scoped routing, circuit-breaker fallback and audit records, with an offline labeled corpus for detector validation. Sanctuary Browser Guard previews, redacts and blocks sensitive prompts before they leave the browser.

PII detection · Policy controls · Auditability

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Agentic software delivery

The AI autonomous company

Make agent workflows reviewable from discovery to release.

My personal project spans discovery, architecture, coding, testing, deployment and operations, with human review, approvals and executable checks. I explore MCP for tool and data access and A2A for coordination, with explicit permissions.

Human oversight · Tool permissions · Agent workflows

04

AI-generated software

AI code governance

Give generated code an accountable path to release.

I built educational CI checks for AI-generated pull-request evidence, protected paths, release-risk classification and generated-test review. The work complements my writing on traceability, testing and human oversight.

CI checks · Review evidence · Release controls

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05

Independent prototype

Controlled agent payments

Put explicit limits around an agent’s authority.

My agent-payment protocol prototype uses simulated payment rails, delegated authority, spending limits, approvals and deterministic replay. It provides a sandbox for exploring agent authority, transaction controls and accountability.

Simulated rails · Delegation · Deterministic replay

06

Educational tooling

AI evaluation toolkit

Evaluate outcomes and tool behavior before release.

I built an educational Python evaluation toolkit covering outcome grading, tool-policy checks, paired comparisons and release gates. It makes the evaluation criteria and release decision explicit.

Outcome grading · Policy checks · Release gates

Applied AI focus

The engineering questions
I work through.

These areas connect my production AI integration, independent implementations and technical publications.

LLM applications and inference

Useful answers need the right context.

Generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, prompt and context engineering, and state and memory management. My technical writing also covers inference efficiency through model routing, caching and latency-cost tradeoffs.

Agent architectures and evaluation

Every action needs a way to be evaluated.

Multi-agent orchestration, LLM harnesses, planner-executor and reviewer patterns, tool calling, scenario-based evaluations, regression testing, observability and failure recovery.

AI security and governance

Trust is an engineering responsibility.

Human-in-the-loop oversight, least-privilege permissions, data boundaries, sandboxing, prompt-injection defense, auditability and staged deployment.

20+ AI books · 25+ books across the full catalog

Writing the engineering playbook for AI.

My books turn questions about agents, context, evaluation and governance into practical engineering guidance. The catalog also includes developer guides for Codex, Claude and Gemini, alongside mobile engineering and technical interviewing.

Technical book / AI governance

AI Code Governance

An engineering leader's guide to review, traceability, testing, and control for AI-generated software.

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Technical book / Coding agents

Context Engineering for Coding Agents

A guide to building AI-ready repositories, specs, tests, guardrails, and production workflows for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, and MCP-based tools.

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Technical book / AI agents

Agent Engineering in Production

How to build AI agents that are reliable, observable, and worth trusting.

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Technical book / AI-native software delivery

AI-Native Engineering

A field guide for senior engineers and tech leads adopting AI tools without losing rigor.

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Technical book / OpenAI Codex

Codex: The Definitive Developer Bible

A practical developer guide for building, debugging, refactoring, reviewing, testing, automating, and shipping with Codex.

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Technical book / Claude and Claude Code

Claude The Definitive Developers Bible

A practical guide for software engineers, technical leads, and builders using Claude for coding, review, debugging, refactoring, prompt design, and production workflows.

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Technical book / Google Gemini

Gemini: The Definitive Developer Bible

A developer guide for using Gemini in planning, coding, debugging, refactoring, and production software workflows.

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Technical book / Prompt engineering

Prompt Engineering

A practical field guide from clear instructions to production systems.

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Technical book / AI agents and business systems

The Autonomous Company

A short book on how AI agents can reshape company operating models and software work.

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Technical book / Technical interviewing

The Big Tech Interview Operating System

A complete playbook for coding interviews, system design rounds, behavioral interviews, and offer-winning execution.

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Technical book / iOS development

The Star iOS Developer Handbook

A practical handbook for building exceptional iOS apps in the AI era.

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Technical book / Android development

The Star Android Developer Handbook

A practical handbook for building exceptional Android apps in the AI era.

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Series and full author catalog

The full author catalog is available on Amazon, including series pages and format-specific listings.

Web products

Product judgment beyond the model.

My broader product work includes loyalty infrastructure and shopping research. These products keep the focus on clear workflows, evidence and decisions that users can review.

Loyalty infrastructure

Loyumi

A controlled Sandbox loyalty-migration pilot for mapping balances and rules, proving return paths, and making a reviewable replacement decision.

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Shopping & price comparison

DealDesk.fyi

Independent shopping-deal research with verified prices, transparent comparisons, merchant context, and visible check dates.

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100+ apps across platforms

A broader portfolio of useful software.

From on-device bank-statement OCR in StatementSnap to document, finance, privacy and productivity tools, my portfolio spans iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Chrome. Explore selected Apple App Store listings below.

Explore 51 selected Apple App Store listings

App Store app / Finance

StatementSnap

StatementSnap is a private bank statement converter for iPhone.

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App Store app / Productivity

PlanMeasure Takeoff

PlanMeasure Free is a private construction takeoff studio for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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App Store app / Photo & Video

Passport Photo Pic Maker

Passport Photo ID Maker helps you create a passport-style 2x2 photo on your iPhone without subscriptions, accounts, or uploads.

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App Store app / Utilities

CleanShare: Metadata Cleaner

CleanShare is a private metadata cleaner for photos, videos, and PDFs.

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App Store app / Shopping

DealDesk

DealDesk is a native purchase planning workspace for iPhone and iPad.

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App Store app / Games

Block Blaster: Neon Rush

Block Blaster: Neon Rush is a fast arcade puzzle game built for quick, satisfying runs.

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App Store app / Productivity

ChatProof

ChatProof turns exported chat archives into readable local records.

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App Store app / Productivity

App Screen Time Lock

App Screen Time Lock helps you set clear daily boundaries for distracting apps.

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App Store app / Productivity

KaiInbox

KaiInbox helps protect your money by turning receipts, renewals, refunds, packages, warranties, bills, and proof into clear, evidence-backed actions.

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App Store app / Utilities

Case Binder

Case Binder is a local-first litigation prep workspace for organizing exhibits, witnesses, transcript clips, trial timelines, and courtroom run-of-show steps.

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App Store app / Productivity

Conduit Bend Free

Conduit Bend Free is a private, on-device calculator for common EMT layout work.

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App Store app / Business

BusinessDesk

BusinessDesk is a private business command center for small business owners, freelancers, and contractors.

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App Store app / Utilities

Saha Invite

Saha Invite is a private, offline-first app for serious dating and matrimony introductions.

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App Store app / Productivity

LocalScribe: Audio to Text

LocalScribe is a private transcription studio for audio and video files.

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App Store app / Productivity

DocDesk: PDF Scanner OCR

DocDesk Free is a local document workspace for cleaning, reading, redacting, signing, compressing, and packaging documents on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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App Store app / Productivity

ProofPack: Evidence PDF

ProofPack is a private evidence PDF maker for screenshots, receipts, photos, PDFs, and notes.

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App Store app / Photo & Video

MetaFix EXIF Cleaner

MetaFix EXIF Cleaner is a private photo metadata repair tool for iPhone.

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App Store app / Games

Gol Skuish

Gol-Skuish is a fast circular strategy game built around seven rings, six spokes, and tense capture chains.

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App Store app / Education

CA Permit Practice 2026

CA Permit Practice 2026 helps California learner drivers prepare with focused practice tests and a parent-friendly driving log.

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App Store app / Utilities

LocalShield

LocalShield is a native Safari content blocker for Mac that keeps protection simple, transparent, and local.

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App Store app / Games

LoopLoot Rush

LoopLoot Rush is a fast one-finger arcade game about drawing the perfect loop.

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App Store app / Games

SnackBlade Rush: Slice Game

SnackBlade Rush is a fast arcade slicing game where every swipe matters.

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App Store app / Utilities

Offline Redactor

Offline Redactor helps you hide sensitive details before you send a screenshot, photo, or PDF.

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App Store app / Games

Tumba Rush

Tumba Rush is a fast one-finger arcade game inspired by classic street-play energy.

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App Store app / Productivity

Sanctuary Browser Guard

Sanctuary Browser Guard helps you preview and protect sensitive prompts before sharing them from iPhone.

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App Store app / Business

Gutter Quote

Gutter Quote helps small gutter contractors build itemized customer quotes from the field.

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App Store app / Games

Lagori Rush

Lagori Rush turns the classic Seven Stones street game into a fast iPhone arcade challenge.

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App Store app / Productivity

DepositDesk

DepositDesk helps renters prepare a clean local evidence packet before a security deposit dispute happens.

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App Store app / Business

Pay Packet

Pay Packet helps contractors and small construction teams prepare progress payment paperwork without subscriptions or project caps.

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App Store app / Utilities

RoutePilot Local Rules

RoutePilot gives users a clean local workspace for network routing rules.

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App Store app / Games

Crash Cart: Neon Market Game

Crash Cart: Neon Market Game is a one-thumb arcade route-contract chase built around panic, near-misses, and comic chaos.

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App Store app / Games

Monsoon Tag Royale

Monsoon Tag Royale is a fast rooftop runner built around chase, timing, and pressure.

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App Store app / Finance

1099Ready: Gig Tax Tracker

1099Ready is a free, local-first tax prep tracker for gig workers, freelancers, contractors, creators, rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, and small side businesses.

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App Store app / Business

ProofNet

ProofNet is a local-first professional network for proof, referrals, and work reputation.

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App Store app / Utilities

SpacePilot Disk Cleaner

SpacePilot is a local-first Mac storage command center for finding what is actually worth cleaning up.

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App Store app / Photo & Video

PixelBatch

PixelBatch helps you resize, convert, and compress groups of images without uploading files.

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App Store app / News

TechieNews Now

TechieNews Now is a clean reader for people who want a fast view of current technology coverage.

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App Store app / Productivity

LockBuddy: Screen Time Lock

LockBuddy helps you protect your own Screen Time rules when willpower is not enough.

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App Store app / Business

ImportGuard

ImportGuard helps operators clean CSV imports before they touch a CRM, spreadsheet, or database.

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App Store app / Productivity

KaiInbox Local

KaiInbox Local is an email opportunity inbox for everyday money moments on Mac.

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App Store app / Productivity

PaperLens OCR

PaperLens OCR turns scanned PDFs and images into searchable documents on your Mac.

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App Store app / Productivity

LocalPDF Desk

LocalPDF Desk is a private PDF utility for everyday document work.

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App Store app / Business

Consign Payout Desk

Consign Payout Desk solves one specific back-office problem for consignment and resale shops: turning point-of-sale CSV sales exports into clear monthly consignor payout reports.

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App Store app / Games

CrunchStack

CrunchStack is a fast, colorful tap game built for instant competition.

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App Store app / Utilities

QuitProof

QuitProof helps gym members organize a clear cancellation request when a gym makes cancellation unfairly difficult.

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App Store app / Business

Opportunity Radar

Opportunity Radar turns public feeds into business signals your team can act on.

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App Store app / Productivity

PDF Editor: Sign OCR

PDF Editor is a local PDF workspace for everyday document work.

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App Store app / Finance

ReceiptRows

ReceiptRows converts receipts into clean spreadsheet exports.

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App Store app / Games

AeroRush Flight Sim

AeroRush Flight Sim is a flight simulation game built to make real pilot habits easier to understand.

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App Store app / Business

PermitPilot Local Rules

PermitPilot helps small food businesses organize the paperwork needed before opening day.

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App Store app / Utilities

DupeSift

DupeSift helps you review imported files and find exact duplicates on iPhone and iPad.

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15 browser tools

Browser extensions, Chrome apps, and plugins.

Browser tools, Chrome apps, browser extensions, browser plugins, prompt-protection workflows, lead follow-up tools, permit-readiness tools, PDF tools, and browser games from Krishna Pinnamaneni.

Explore 15 browser tools and extensions

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

Aero Rush Sim

Pilot a fast 3D aircraft through rings and hazards in a local arcade flight simulator.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

DisputeDeck

Organize dispute facts, evidence, deadlines, and next actions in a local workspace.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

Empire Owner Dashboard

Track local owner training metrics, project status, and operating priorities in one dashboard.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

Empire Quote Calculator

Build simple service quotes locally with saved line items, totals, and owner-ready pricing.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

Gol-Skuish

Play a local fast-action arcade challenge with saved best scores and responsive controls.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

ImportGuard CSV

Review and clean CSV-style contact import data locally before it reaches another system.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

KaiInbox Ops Command Center

Review a local document operations workspace for bookkeeping and CAS teams.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

LocalPDF Desk

Run local PDF desk utilities in Chrome with bundled browser-side PDF tooling.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

Monsoon Run Royale

Play a local monsoon-themed arcade runner with browser-saved results.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

QuitProof Gym Cancel Helper

Organize a local gym cancellation packet, evidence trail, and follow-up plan.

Browser tool / Chrome app / extension

Snack Stack Rush

Stack snacks in a fast local arcade challenge with browser-saved high scores.

Browser tool / Browser extension

Lagori Rush - Seven Stones

Break the seven-stone stack, rebuild under pressure, and dodge moving defenders in a fast street-game challenge.

Browser tool / Browser extension

Lead Follow-Up Tracker

Track customer leads that need a reply before quotes go cold.

Browser tool / Browser extension

PermitPilot

Food-business permit and compliance readiness board for small operators.

Browser tool / Browser extension

Sanctuary Browser Guard

Preview, redact, and block sensitive prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini before they leave the browser.

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