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Author: SinghCoder

content/about/_index.md

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+---
+title: "About"
+description: "About Harpinder Jot Singh"
+---
+
+# About Me
+
+I'm Harpinder Jot Singh, an AI/ML engineer and entrepreneur focused on building coordination tools that help humans and AI work together seamlessly.
+
+## What I'm Building
+
+I'm currently building **Qordinate** - a coordination assistant that helps people and their agents work together seamlessly, without the endless back-and-forth. I've spent the past few years thinking about how humans and AI can coordinate better - not just communicate. With Qordinate, we're making that real by bringing autonomous, context-aware agents into the apps people already use.
+
+## My Background
+
+Before starting Qordinate, I spent ~4.5 years at DevRev, helping take it from 0→1, working on workflows and the agent platform - one of its core foundations. I've worked across the full stack of AI systems, from data pipelines to user interfaces, and have experience building platforms that scale.
+
+## Writing & Speaking
+
+I write about the evolving agent ecosystem, interoperability between assistants, and what it means to build AI products that actually fit into people's lives. I've also spoken about these topics, including a recent podcast with Dheeraj Pandey (former CEO of Nutanix, current CEO of DevRev) on The Effortless Podcast.
+
+## Education
+
+I graduated from BITS Pilani with a degree in Computer Science, where I was actively involved in coding clubs, teaching assistantships, and various technical projects.
+
+## Contact
+
+Always open to exchanging ideas with founders, engineers, and researchers building in this space.
+
+- **Email:** [harpinderjots@gmail.com](mailto:harpinderjots@gmail.com)
+- **Twitter:** [@singhhcoder](https://x.com/singhhcoder)
+- **LinkedIn:** [singhcoder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhcoder/)
+- **Qordinate:** [qordinate.ai](https://qordinate.ai?utm_source=github&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=about)

content/now/_index.md

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+---
+title: "Now"
+description: "What I'm doing now"
+---
+
+# What I'm Doing Now
+
+*Last updated: October 2025*
+
+## Building Qordinate
+
+I'm currently focused on building **Qordinate** - a coordination assistant that helps people and their agents work together seamlessly, without the endless back-and-forth.
+
+### Recent Updates
+
+- **Arattai Integration:** Qordinate now works inside Arattai! Users can download the contact card from [qordinate.ai/vcf](https://qordinate.ai/vcf) and DM it on Arattai to get started.
+- **Agent Platform:** We're making autonomous, context-aware agents that fit into the apps people already use, rather than requiring new interfaces.
+
+## The Vision
+
+I've spent the past few years thinking about how humans and AI can coordinate better - not just communicate. The key insight is that coordination requires shared context, not just better chat interfaces. Qordinate brings this shared context to messaging apps people already use.
+
+## What's Next
+
+- Expanding integrations with more messaging platforms
+- Improving agent reasoning and context awareness
+- Building tools for developers to create their own coordination agents
+
+## Get Involved
+
+If you're interested in coordination, AI agents, or building products that fit into people's existing workflows, I'd love to hear from you.
+
+**Contact:** [harpinderjots@gmail.com](mailto:harpinderjots@gmail.com)

content/talks/_index.md

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+---
+title: "Talks"
+description: "Speaking engagements and podcasts"
+---
+
+# Talks & Podcasts
+
+## MCP Is Less Software Engineering And More Social Engineering
+
+**The Effortless Podcast** • April 2025
+
+Featured on The Effortless Podcast with Dheeraj Pandey (former CEO of Nutanix, current CEO of DevRev). We discussed AI workflows, federated vs. integrated systems, Python for LLMs, and enterprise automation.
+
+### Key Topics Covered
+
+- **AI's Evolution:** Function calling has revolutionized how LLMs interact with the world by enabling real-time data retrieval and task execution through API calls and external systems
+- **Federated vs. Integrated Systems:** Trade-offs between leaving data in legacy systems vs. centralizing for better performance and consistency
+- **CodeAct's Potential:** Using Python code execution instead of traditional tool calls to create more flexible, efficient LLM agents
+- **AI for Enterprises:** Making AI-driven workflow automation accessible to companies without deep technical expertise
+- **Future of AI Agents:** Enhancing ability to generate and execute code for more powerful and autonomous systems
+
+### Listen
+
+- [The Effortless Podcast Episode](https://theeffortlesspodcast.substack.com/p/mcp-is-less-software-engineering-dea)
+
+## About The Effortless Podcast
+
+The Effortless Podcast is hosted by:
+- **Dheeraj Pandey** – Co-founder and CEO of DevRev, former CEO of Nutanix
+- **Amit Prakash** – Co-founder and CTO of ThoughtSpot, former engineer at Google and Microsoft
+
+The podcast explores leadership, AI, design, and building customer-centric products through conversations with industry leaders and innovators.

data/awards.yaml

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+- title: Winner - DevRev AI Agents Hackathon
+  period: Jun 2024
+  org: DevRev
+  description: Our team came first in the AI Agents hackathon where we built Robin - AI-powered digital personal assistant that filters out noise in your life by acting as your sidekick.
+- title: Runner Up - DevRev AI Hackathon - Developer Experience Track
+  period: Feb 2024
+  org: DevRev
+  description: Developed AI chatbot for quick question answering, improving developer productivity. Enhanced chatbot to offer step-by-step template guides for creating workflows from natural language. Developed tools for Datadog and GitHub PRs analysis.
+- title: Merit Cum Means Scholarship
+  period: All Semesters
+  org: BITS Pilani
+  description: Received MCN Scholarship for all semesters, awarded to top 3% of students.

data/experience.yaml

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+- org: Stealth AI Startup
+  role: Co-Founder
+  period: Sep 2025 - Present
+  location: Remote (SF Bay Area)
+  bullets:
+    - Solving for time wasted in back-and-forth
+- org: DevRev
+  role: AI/ML Engineer
+  period: Jan 2024 - Sep 2025
+  location: Bengaluru (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Worked on AI Agents Reasoning and Computer by DevRev
+    - Implemented system to log AI data into data lake for analysis and model training
+    - Led efforts to improve observability and debuggability for LLM applications using LangSmith and Langfuse
+    - Developed feedback system to gather high-quality user insights
+    - Created dynamic configuration system for real-time AI feature adjustments
+    - Set up automated testing framework for ML validation upon configuration changes
+    - Designed data annotation pipeline with LabelStudio for efficient dataset preparation
+    - Co-Led Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) development with modular design
+- org: DevRev
+  role: Member of Technical Staff
+  period: Jun 2021 - Dec 2023
+  location: Bengaluru (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Developed and managed workflows platform, supporting webhooks, APIs, and commands powered by AWS Lambda
+    - 105+ custom and 50+ DevRev authored workflows built on platform, resulting in 1,100+ installations
+    - Worked on design and implementation of user interface toolkit for workflows
+    - Created Command-Line Interface (CLI) tool to simplify development and testing process for workflow developers
+    - Enabled both synchronous and asynchronous execution to support use cases from simple commands to complex webhooks
+    - Established testing framework for automated processes with pytest
+    - Enhanced observability and debuggability for developers by providing access to logs and metrics backed by OpenSearch
+    - Contributed significantly to creation of marketplace for workflows, enhancing their visibility and adoption
+- org: Nutanix
+  role: Intern, Member of Technical Staff
+  period: Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
+  location: Bengaluru (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Developed Developer Edition of company's Object Storage product, enhancing its usability
+    - Simplified local emulation of Object Storage by integrating it with native file system
+- org: Fiverr
+  role: Professional Freelancer
+  period: Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
+  location: Remote
+  bullets:
+    - Performed various scripting, automation, database interaction gigs using C, Java, Python, and Javascript
+    - Completed 25 projects, worth 2000 USD
+- org: BITS Pilani
+  role: Computer Architecture Teaching Assistant
+  period: Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
+  location: Pilani (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Assisted in lab components in course registered by ~200 Freshmen under guidance of Dr. Sudeept Mohan
+    - Role involved doubts solving, and content development for practice of students
+    - Labs involved Verilog programming and developing processor using same
+- org: BITS Pilani
+  role: Student Representative, Student Faculty Council
+  period: Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
+  location: Jhunjhunu (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Responsible for representing issues faced by batch-mates in courses to faculty
+    - Finding feasible solutions upon discussion with faculty members
+- org: Salesforce
+  role: Summer Intern
+  period: May 2020 - Jul 2020
+  location: Remote
+  bullets:
+    - Manufacturing cloud helps manufacturers innovate their businesses by providing features like sales agreements, account forecasting, account manager targets
+    - Developed generic, customizable Printable view and PDF generation functionality for Manufacturing Cloud feature
+    - Helped manufacturers generate reports for audit and archival purposes, product got integrated with other clouds for similar functionality
+    - Used Lightning Web Components, AURA Components and Visualforce for UI, APEX for Back-end and SOQL for database interaction
+    - Received pre-placement offer to join company after graduation
+- org: BITS Pilani
+  role: Computer Programming Teaching Assistant
+  period: Jan 2020 - May 2020
+  location: Pilani (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Assisted in evaluative lab components in course registered by ~500 freshmen under guidance of Dr. Pratik Narang
+    - Course is first introductory Computer Science course for freshers, programming done using C language
+    - Role involved doubts solving, invigilation, and content development for practice of students
+- org: Coding Club BITS Pilani
+  role: Apogee Joint Coordinator
+  period: May 2019 - Apr 2020
+  location: Pilani (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Led team of 70 student developers overseeing conduction of various technical events
+    - Events ranged from Workshops and Hackathons to Online gaming events hosted by Coding Club during APOGEE
+- org: Coding Club BITS Pilani
+  role: Frontend Web Developer
+  period: May 2017 - May 2019
+  location: Pilani (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Worked as Frontend Web Developer for 2 years developing frontend for web platforms of various events
+    - Developed frontend for events organized by Coding Club, BITS Pilani
+- org: Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO
+  role: Intern
+  period: May 2019 - Jul 2019
+  location: Dehra Dun (On-site)
+  bullets:
+    - Developed web platform to plot, visualize and analyze satellite imagery data
+    - Implemented graphical visualization using WMS layers served through QGIS
+    - Platform helped researchers quickly test and verify new theories on remote sensing indices
+    - Tech used: Open Data Cube, HTML/CSS, JS, Python, Django

data/projects.yaml

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+- name: Robin
+  period: Jun 2024
+  org: DevRev
+  description: AI-powered digital personal assistant that filters out noise in your life by acting as your sidekick. It performs actions and handles communication when it can and only leaves the important stuff for you.
+  skills: LangChain, Large Language Models (LLM), GPT-4, Python
+- name: Second Brain
+  period: Aug 2023
+  org: Personal Project
+  description: Digital assistant implementing four-step process to capture, organize, refine, and share information. Designed algorithms for task prioritization and searchable knowledge base, enhancing information management.
+  skills: LangChain, Slack, Large Language Models (LLM)
+  link: https://github.com/singhcoder/second-brain
+- name: Compiler Construction
+  period: Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
+  org: BITS Pilani
+  description: Implemented compiler for custom language in C. Implemented lexical analyzer, syntax analyzer, semantic analyzer, and code generator modules.
+  skills: C, Compiler Design
+- name: Concurrent TCP Webserver
+  period: Apr 2020
+  org: BITS Pilani
+  description: Implemented pre-threaded webserver supporting HTTP GET requests. Client requests handled in stages by pool of threads created in beginning. All I/O on sockets is nonblocking.
+  skills: C, Network Programming, Threading
+- name: Shell Development
+  period: Apr 2020
+  org: BITS Pilani
+  description: Implemented command-line shell with custom features using low-level system programming and network programming in Unix. Features include pipelining, I/O redirection, creating shared memory and TCP connection with server.
+  skills: C, Unix Programming, System Programming
+- name: Web Platform for Spatial Data Analysis
+  period: Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
+  org: ISRO/IIRS
+  description: Web-based platform for time series analysis of various indexes used to analyze vegetation, water level using Landsat satellite data. Added customized indices via GUI and visualized terrain profile along path using DEMs.
+  skills: Python, Django, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Open Data Cube
+- name: Web Platform for Blind Coding
+  period: Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
+  org: Coding Club BITS Pilani
+  description: Developed web platform for solving programming problems by writing code but not being able to see what is written. Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript for frontend and integrated JDoodle compiler for handling simultaneous requests from users.
+  skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JDoodle API
+- name: Website Development for BOSM 2018
+  period: Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
+  org: Coding Club BITS Pilani
+  description: Designed front end using HTML, CSS and JavaScript for website of BOSM 2018, sports fest of BITS. Website was used by more than 2000 students for accessing registrations, publicity, event schedules during the fest.
+  skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

data/volunteering.yaml

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+- org: NSS, BITS-Pilani
+  role: School Teacher
+  period: Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
+  location: Pilani
+  description: Prepared class XI students for Indian Engineering entrance exam - JEE Mains. Volunteered as tutor for high school students.

hugo.toml

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 baseURL = 'https://singhcoder.github.io/'
 languageCode = 'en-us'
-title = 'My Personal Blog'
+title = 'Harpinder Jot Singh'
 theme = 'flat'
 googleAnalytics = 'G-TR6P06RWHL'
 disqusShortname = 'singhcoder'
 [params]
-  description = "SinghCoder's personal blog"
+  description = 'Building Qordinate — coordination without the back-and-forth.'
   images = ['site-feature-image.jpg']
   google_site_verification = 'nrXJC1Q97Lp2aEB5iMkD7nNX0Mg3X2btPqho_kWMUts'
 [social]
-  twitter = 'singhhcoder'
+  twitter = 'singhhcoder'
+  linkedin = 'singhcoder'
+
+[menu]
+  [[menu.main]]
+  name = 'About'
+  url = '/about/'
+  weight = 10
+  [[menu.main]]
+  name = 'Now'
+  url = '/now/'
+  weight = 20
+  [[menu.main]]
+  name = 'Projects'
+  url = '/#projects'
+  weight = 30
+  [[menu.main]]
+  name = 'Writing'
+  url = '/posts/'
+  weight = 40
+  [[menu.main]]
+  name = 'Talks'
+  url = '/talks/'
+  weight = 50
+  [[menu.main]]
+  name = 'Contact'
+  url = 'mailto:harpinderjots@gmail.com'
+  weight = 60

layouts/index.html

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+{{ define "main" }}
+<div class="container">
+  <!-- Hero Section -->
+  <section id="hero" class="hero">
+    <h1>Harpinder Jot Singh</h1>
+    <p>Building Qordinate — coordination without the back-and-forth.</p>
+    <div class="cta-group">
+      <a href="https://qordinate.ai/vcf" class="btn btn-primary">Get Qordinate vCard</a>
+      <a href="mailto:harpinderjots@gmail.com" class="btn btn-secondary">Email Me</a>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+
+  <!-- Now Section -->
+  <section id="now" class="section">
+    <h2>What I'm Doing Now</h2>
+    <div class="card">
+      <h3>Qordinate</h3>
+      <p>I'm building Qordinate - a coordination assistant that helps people and their agents work together seamlessly, without the endless back-and-forth.</p>
+      <p>I've spent the past few years thinking about how humans and AI can coordinate better - not just communicate. With Qordinate, we're making that real by bringing autonomous, context-aware agents into the apps people already use.</p>
+      <p><strong>Latest:</strong> Qordinate now works inside Arattai! <a href="https://qordinate.ai/vcf">Download the contact card</a> and DM it on Arattai to get started.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+
+  <!-- Experience Section -->
+  <section id="experience" class="section">
+    <h2>Experience</h2>
+    <div class="timeline">
+      {{ partial "home-experience.html" . }}
+    </div>
+  </section>
+
+  <!-- Projects Section -->
+  <section id="projects" class="section">
+    <h2>Projects</h2>
+    <div class="grid grid-2">
+      {{ partial "home-projects.html" . }}
+    </div>
+  </section>
+
+  <!-- Writing Section -->
+  <section id="writing" class="section">
+    <h2>Writing</h2>
+    <div class="card">
+      <h3>Recent Posts</h3>
+      <p>I write about the evolving agent ecosystem, interoperability between assistants, and what it means to build AI products that actually fit into people's lives.</p>
+      <a href="/posts/" class="btn btn-primary">View All Posts</a>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+
+  <!-- Talks Section -->
+  <section id="talks" class="section">
+    <h2>Talks</h2>
+    <div class="card">
+      <h3>MCP Is Less Software Engineering And More Social Engineering</h3>
+      <p>Featured on The Effortless Podcast with Dheeraj Pandey (former CEO of Nutanix, current CEO of DevRev). We discussed AI workflows, federated vs. integrated systems, Python for LLMs, and enterprise automation.</p>
+      <a href="https://theeffortlesspodcast.substack.com/p/mcp-is-less-software-engineering-dea" class="btn btn-primary" target="_blank">Listen to Podcast</a>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+
+  <!-- Awards Section -->
+  <section id="awards" class="section">
+    <h2>Awards & Recognition</h2>
+    <div class="grid grid-2">
+      {{ partial "home-awards.html" . }}
+    </div>
+  </section>
+
+  <!-- Volunteering Section -->
+  <section id="volunteering" class="section">
+    <h2>Volunteering</h2>
+    <div class="grid grid-2">
+      {{ partial "home-volunteering.html" . }}
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</div>
+{{ end }}