SPT Sri Pranav Tene

pushed to lupyd/firefly

About

Product instincts, systems habits.

I move between product thinking and low-level engineering. Good software should feel obvious; the engineering behind it rarely is.

The interesting part is the difficult middle: turning an ambitious product idea into a system that stays fast, safe and understandable. That has taken me from end-to-end encrypted collaboration and WebRTC to audio processing in C++, GPU workloads, Godot games, mobile apps and a programming language of my own.

Experience

Shipping since 2021; founder since 2023.

  1. 2023 — now

    Lupyd Media

    Founder · full-stack engineer

    Building a privacy-focused collaboration platform with end-to-end encryption from the ground up: Rust across the backend, React and Tauri across the clients, with MLS, blind signatures, WebSockets, WebTransport and WebRTC in the mix.

    • Rust
    • MLS
    • WebRTC
    • WebTransport
    • React
    • Tauri
  2. 2025

    Turing

    Rust LLM trainer · contract

    RLHF training for Anthropic models, bringing systems-level Rust judgment into model evaluation and improvement.

    • Rust
    • RLHF
  3. 2022 — 2023

    Jandas Corporation

    Mobile application developer · contract

    Cross-platform Flutter applications, and a low-level audio-processing product spanning Dart and C++.

    • Flutter
    • Dart
    • C++
    • Audio DSP
  4. 2021 — 2022

    Freelance

    Independent developer

    Rust smart contracts, WGPU parallel-processing scripts, automation bots, games and mobile applications.

    • Rust
    • WGPU
    • Game dev
    • Smart contracts

How I build

Written the way protocol specs are, because they're meant to be just as binding. Key words per RFC 2119.

  1. 01

    Software MUST NOT collect user data merely because it can be collected.

  2. 02

    Software SHOULD encrypt end to end. The server is not a trusted party.

  3. 03

    Software SHOULD remove any round trip that can be removed.

  4. 04

    Software MAY add a dependency when it pays rent.

  5. 05

    Software MUST stay understandable to whoever maintains it next.

Education

BSc in Data Science from Kavitha Degree College, after earlier AI/ML study at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology. Most of the useful learning happened while making things that had to work.

0.0055% top · TG ICET
0.019% top · TS EAMCET
3.4% top · JEE Mains