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Piyush Gautamest. 2026 · made in india
HI.
I’M PIYUSH.
I built a CPU out of NAND gates once, and I've been working my way up the stack ever since.
Right now I'm building Cernis full time — a hiring platform that takes the funnel off founders' plates: source, assess, shortlist, done.
Before that: AI compliance tooling at SigmaRed, LLM and multi-agent systems at Piramal, real-time 3D avatars and AI motion capture at Flam, and a Vuforia-style cloud image-recognition stack before that.
I care about the parts that are easy to skip — auth that holds, logs you can read at 2am, and frames that land on a mid-range phone. Systems, compilers, and graphics are the things I read about for fun.
If I can't explain the layer below, I don't understand the one I'm in.
SELECTED WORK.
- 012026
Cernis · my ownCernis — Hiring, Off Your Plate
↗Recruiting platform — building now
Founders don't have a hiring team. Cernis is the hiring team.
ReactNode · ExpressBolna (voice)ElevenLabsGCPcernis.ai ↗Sources candidates from active and passive pools, runs AI assessments, and puts a ranked top-5 shortlist with full reports in front of the founder in 24–72 hours. A human recruiter reviews every ranking before it ships — AI prepares, a human decides. You only pay when you hire.
- 022026
via SigmaRed (US client)Purpose & Wellness Workspace
↗Confidential SaaS — anonymized
Step-by-step blueprint flow for personal-growth coaching at scale.
Next.jsNodePostgreSQLAI WorkflowsMulti-step purpose blueprint with 16+ guided modules, video gating, accomplishment tracking, and a workspace UI. Built the auth, the module engine, and the assignment flow that gets users from intake to outcome without a coach in the loop.
- 032026
via SigmaRed (US client)Listing Story Platform
↗Confidential Real-Estate Tool — anonymized
Turn agent inputs into buyer-ready home stories that move listings.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindAI Story EngineListing-first marketing tool for realtors: agents enter property facts, the system generates verified buyer-facing stories with renovation timelines, roof age, window vintage. Designed onboarding, agent dashboard, and the story generation UX.
- 042025
Piramal CapitalWYWA — Jira to PR, Autonomously
↗Internal automation pipeline
Assign a ticket to an AI email user. Wake up to a pull request.
n8nClaude CLIJira APIGitHub APIWhile You Were Away: an n8n pipeline that watches Jira, dispatches the Claude CLI to a sandboxed worktree, runs tests, opens a PR, and transitions the ticket. Architected the trigger system, repo isolation, and the failure-recovery loop.
- 052023
Flam (Flying Flamingos)Avatar Ecosystem
↗Real-time 3D avatar platform
Customizable 3D avatars in the browser with AI-generated cloth textures.
Three.jsNext.jsAWS S3AI texturesDesigned a Three.js-based avatar pipeline with body and face shape morphs, cloth swapping, and AI-generated textures. Replaced an unstable Unity+iframe POC with a fast, browser-native ecosystem.
- 062023
Flam (Flying Flamingos)AI Motion Capture
↗2D camera → 3D avatar motion
Dance video in. Live 3D avatar performance out. No mocap suit.
MediaPipeQuaternion mathPythonOpenCVBuilt a 2D-to-3D motion pipeline using MediaPipe Pose with quaternion smoothing. Drove a rigged Three.js avatar from a webcam stream and pre-recorded dance video.
- 072024
SigmaRedCyrapid — AI Compliance Platform
↗Cyber risk + compliance SaaS
AI-driven ISO 27001 / NIS2 assessments with human-in-the-loop review.
Next.jsFastAPIAzure OpenAIPrismaEngineered the assessment workflow: framework selection, policy/workbook ingestion, AI report generation, agent + human review. Wired Azure OpenAI through Vercel AI SDK, designed the Prisma schema for audit history.
LET'S
SHIP.
Need someone to architect AI systems, ship fast backends, or build real-time graphics that don't lag a phone? I'm building Cernis ↗ full time, and open to consulting and select senior roles out of Bengaluru.
© 2026 Piyush Gautam · Made with ◆ in Bengaluru