Hi, I'm Heems
Engineering Leader & Full Stack Engineer. I love building teams, shipping products people use, and helping engineers grow.
HS

About

I've spent two decades shipping software across backend systems, frontend frameworks, mobile, and infrastructure — a specialised generalist at heart. Along the way I've led teams of all sizes, from hands-on coding through scaling engineering orgs, grounded in a three-pronged approach: People, Culture, and Tools. The most rewarding part of leadership, for me, has always been watching someone step into a role they didn't think they were ready for. Today I'm based in Bangalore, building contract intelligence at Recital and tinkering with side projects on the weekends.

Work Experience

My Projects

Check out my side projects

I have a bunch of work I do on the side for fun, here's some of my fave ones

HelmScout

A self-hosted replacement for kubesearch.dev that indexes more repositories, from more forges, with more manifest scanners — exposing the index through an HTTP API and an MCP server so agents can research how real homelabs configure their Helm charts. Written in Elixir on SQLite, so it runs comfortably on a free or cheap VM.

Elixir
SQLite
MCP
Helm
Self-hosted

Clarke Flash

An extraction model post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B that answers a whole schema of typed fields in one parallel forward pass instead of generating tokens. Answers come back as read spans with exact character offsets, computed values, or calibrated distributions — so it can't re-spell or invent what isn't in the document.

LLMs
Qwen
Post-training
Structured Extraction

Homelab Cluster

A 4-node cluster running at home — three mini PCs (i5-9500T, 32GB RAM each) and a 2U rack server (24 cores, 384GB RAM) on Talos Linux and Kubernetes, fully git-managed with Renovate for automated image updates. A separate NAS on Proxmox manages 50TB of storage, with automated backups on intervals (the longest being 2 hours), kept as both local and remote copies.

Talos Linux
Kubernetes
Proxmox
Renovate
Homelab
Local LLM Evaluation

Local LLM Evaluation

Running and testing different LLMs locally, evaluating them across a range of tasks — building on the same muscle I use professionally for model and tool selection at Recital.

Local LLMs
Model Evaluation
Prompt Engineering

Document Classifier

An AI-powered document classifier that automatically organizes documents and images. It extracts structured data from documents and makes them searchable — so finding a receipt or warranty info is a query, not a hunt. Designed to work with either a local LLM on your machine or a remote LLM, letting you choose your own tradeoff between privacy and accuracy.

AI
Document Processing
Structured Data
LLMs
Contact Me

Get in touch

Want to get in touch with me? Send me an email or get in touch via LinkedIn