{
  "name": "Kuber Mehta",
  "title": "AI Developer & Full Stack Engineer",
  "known_for": "Creator of Claurst (Claude Code ported to Rust — 7k stars in its first week, 10k+ now), Backdooms (DOOM in a QR code) and 50+ shipped projects. Writes MindDump (50-100k monthly readers).",
  "age": 19,
  "location": "New Delhi, India",
  "email": "kuberhob@gmail.com",
  "website": "https://kuber.studio",
  "github": "https://github.com/Kuberwastaken",
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kubermehta/",
  "blog": "https://kuber.studio/blog/",
  "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/@Kuberwastaken",
  "current_role": {
    "position": "This summer I'm working on central AI Initiatives @ [Razorpay](https://razorpay.com) (YC W15) — a 5-person mini AI lab reporting directly to CEO Harshil Mathur. We train foundational models and build large-scale internal and external AI applications on top of massive databases, at a company with 3500+ employees serving millions of merchants and billions of transactions. Previously: Business Fellow @ Perplexity, AI Summer Resident @ Nas Daily (Dubai), AI Agents Websocket Framework LEAD Intern @ HTMX (thanks Twitter)",
    "education": "I'm studying Computer Science & AI-ML from BITS Pilani and AI & Data Science from IPU, primarily working on Generative UI for LLMs, World model caching and more  @ [PolyThink Labs](https://www.polyth.ink/)."
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "degree": "BSc Computer Science",
      "institution": "BITS Pilani",
      "status": "Current"
    },
    {
      "degree": "BTech AI & Data Science",
      "institution": "Indraprastha University (GGSIPU)",
      "status": "Current"
    }
  ],
  "skills": {
    "Languages": [
      {
        "name": "Python",
        "desc": "Versatile scripting & data science"
      },
      {
        "name": "C",
        "desc": "Low-level systems programming"
      },
      {
        "name": ".NET",
        "desc": "Modern object-oriented programming and enterprise development"
      },
      {
        "name": "C#",
        "desc": "Popular language for .NET and game development"
      },
      {
        "name": "Lua",
        "desc": "Lightweight scripting"
      },
      {
        "name": "JavaScript",
        "desc": "Web & full-stack development"
      },
      {
        "name": "TypeScript",
        "desc": "Type-safe JavaScript"
      },
      {
        "name": "R",
        "desc": "Statistical computing"
      },
      {
        "name": "HTML",
        "desc": "Web structure"
      },
      {
        "name": "CSS",
        "desc": "Web styling"
      },
      {
        "name": "SCSS",
        "desc": "Advanced CSS preprocessing"
      }
    ],
    "Frameworks": [
      {
        "name": "React",
        "desc": "Component-based UI library"
      },
      {
        "name": "Next.js",
        "desc": "Full-stack React framework"
      },
      {
        "name": "Flask",
        "desc": "Lightweight web framework"
      },
      {
        "name": "Node.js",
        "desc": "Server-side JavaScript runtime"
      },
      {
        "name": "TensorFlow",
        "desc": "Deep learning framework"
      },
      {
        "name": "PyTorch",
        "desc": "Machine learning framework"
      }
    ],
    "Tools": [
      {
        "name": "Git",
        "desc": "Version control system"
      },
      {
        "name": "SQL",
        "desc": "Database management"
      },
      {
        "name": "BigQuery",
        "desc": "Cloud data warehouse"
      },
      {
        "name": "Tableau",
        "desc": "Data visualization"
      },
      {
        "name": "LaTeX",
        "desc": "Document preparation"
      },
      {
        "name": "Gradio",
        "desc": "Machine learning interfaces"
      }
    ]
  },
  "featured_projects": [
    {
      "name": "Claurst",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "Claude Code ported to Rust & a Breakdown of the Claude Code leak & discoveries. Hit 7k stars in its first week (10k+ now) & GitHub trending on 31 March 2026.",
      "url": "https://claurst.kuber.studio",
      "github": "https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/claurst/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Disproving WOWII Conjectures 63 & 85 with Agentic Loops",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "Disproved two graph theory conjectures that had been open for 22+ years, with agentic loops running GPT 5.6 Terra Medium in Claurst.",
      "github": "https://github.com/google-deepmind/formal-conjectures/pull/4592"
    },
    {
      "name": "DOOMme",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "Running DOOM (1993) in a GitHub Readme.\n\nA DIY stateless engine with 8000+ markdown files and WebP images linked together with graphs programmatically mapping out every position in the E1M1 map in all 4 directions.",
      "github": "https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/DoomMe",
      "technologies": [
        "Web Development",
        "Computer Vision"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backdooms",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "One of the top HN Posts of 2025, [cited by an ex-NASA Scientist](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392716839_Encoding_Software_For_Perpetuity_A_Compact_Representation_Of_Apollo_11_Guidance_Code) on his independent research paper. \n\n A Game inspired by DOOM and the Backrooms inside a single QR code, less than 2.4kB in size, using a custom compression pipeline and the DecompressionStream browser API",
      "url": "https://kuber.studio/backdooms/",
      "github": "https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms",
      "technologies": [
        "Game Development",
        "QR Code",
        "JavaScript"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "TREAT",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "TREAT is an AI-powered platform for trigger recognition in movies and TV, making content more accessible and enjoyable.\n\nAcquired.",
      "github": "https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/TREAT",
      "technologies": [
        "AI/ML"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "PolyThink",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "Building Generative UI for LLMs",
      "url": "https://www.polyth.ink/",
      "technologies": [
        "AI/ML",
        "Multi-agent AI",
        "LLMs"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "MEOW",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "The most Purr-fect Image File Format for your AI workflows, PNG on steroids.\n\nThe royalties paid for my college tuition.",
      "github": "https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/meow",
      "technologies": [
        "AI/ML",
        "Computer Vision"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "ClawX",
      "status": "Active",
      "description": "The social network for AI agents.\nNow usable by Humans\n\nMade an X like interface for Humans to use Moltbook (Facebook for AI agents)\nDoubles as a pSEO aggregator with 85k+ dynamically rendered pages.",
      "url": "https://clawx.kuber.studio",
      "technologies": [
        "AI/ML"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "achievements": [
    "AI Initiatives @ Razorpay (YC W15) — Summer 2026 — central AI lab of 5, reporting directly to CEO Harshil Mathur; training foundational models and shipping large-scale internal & external AI applications on massive databases for a company with 3500+ employees, millions of merchants, and billions of transactions",
    "Won Nothing Essential Lab S1 Hackathon — Awarded a Nothing Phone 3",
    "4th Place — Unsloth x AMD RL Hackathon at IIT Delhi",
    "First Place at Hack Club SiteJam",
    "Top 10 — Google x Kaggle Long Context AI Hackathon",
    "Perplexity AI Business Fellow",
    "GitHub Copilot Backstage Pass Member",
    "Provided feedback to OpenAI on GPT OSS — Part of small group of Asia-Pacific developers",
    "20+ hackathons participated"
  ],
  "media_appearances": [
    {
      "outlet": "Don Porqué",
      "title": "Esta web sabe todo sobre tu ordenador sin utilizar cookies",
      "url": "https://donporque.com/web-sabe-todo-sobre-tu-ordenador-sin-utilizar-cookies/",
      "date": "2026-08-05",
      "project": "I Didn't Set a Cookie",
      "description": "Spanish-language feature on I Didn't Set a Cookie, calling it \"un experimento creado por el desarrollador Kuber Mehta\" that sets no cookies, requests no permissions and stores no results. Frames the demo as turning browser fingerprinting into \"espectáculo comprensible\" — showing how ordinary technical details combine into a recognisable fingerprint that persists even with cookies disabled."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "Decrypt",
      "title": "Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code's Source — The Internet Is Keeping It Forever",
      "url": "https://decrypt.co/362917/anthropic-accidentally-leaked-claude-code-source-internet-keeping-forever",
      "date": "2026-03-31",
      "project": "Claurst",
      "description": "Coverage of the Claude Code source-code leak (a ~59.8MB sourcemap shipped in an npm release). Cites Kuber (\"Kuberwastaken\") as the source who surfaced details buried in the code, including a hidden 'Undercover Mode' subsystem; his archive and breakdown led to Claurst."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "Prism News",
      "title": "Developers Race to Build Rust Ports After Claude Code Source Leak",
      "url": "https://www.prismnews.com/hobbies/rust-programming/developers-race-to-build-rust-ports-after-claude-code",
      "date": "2026-04-01",
      "project": "Claurst",
      "description": "On the wave of Rust reimplementations after the leak, highlighting Kuber's Claurst as \"a pure Rust reimplementation\" whose README states plainly that it holds no proprietary Claude Code source."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "The Independent",
      "title": "AIs are chatting with each other in the weirdest corner of the internet. Or are they?",
      "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/moltbook-ai-reddit-social-media-chat-b2915460.html",
      "date": "2026-02-08",
      "project": "ClawX",
      "description": "Feature on Moltbook, the social network for AI agents. Notes that \"a human user called Kuber Mehta has built a product on top of Moltbook that allows humans to join in\" — his project ClawX."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "PC Gamer",
      "title": "Behold! A single QR code containing a miniaturized take on Doom: 'literally the entire game'",
      "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/behold-a-single-qr-code-containing-a-miniaturized-take-on-doom-literally-the-entire-game/",
      "date": "2025-04-23",
      "project": "Backdooms",
      "description": "Reports on Backdooms, crediting \"developer Kuber Mehta\" for fitting a playable DOOM-style game into a single QR code using extreme minification and the DecompressionStream API."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "TechSpot",
      "title": "Doom can now run in a self-contained QR code. Sort of",
      "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/107642-doom-can-now-run-self-contained-qr-code.html",
      "date": "2025-04-22",
      "project": "Backdooms",
      "description": "Calls Kuber Mehta \"a resourceful developer\" who took the 'Can it run Doom?' meme to new heights with Backdooms."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "Boing Boing",
      "title": "Doom in a QR code",
      "url": "https://boingboing.net/2025/04/18/doom-in-a-qr-code.html",
      "date": "2025-04-18",
      "project": "Backdooms",
      "description": "Rob Beschizza on Backdooms: \"The genius behind this is Kuber Mehta.\""
    },
    {
      "outlet": "Total Apex Gaming",
      "title": "A Single QR Code Contains Doom…Sort Of",
      "url": "https://totalapexgaming.com/news/a-single-qr-code-contains-doom-kinda/",
      "date": "2025-04-26",
      "project": "Backdooms",
      "description": "Profiles Backdooms and its creator — \"Kuber Mehta, also known by his GitHub handle Kuberwastaken, is a passionate student fascinated by AI and computer science.\""
    },
    {
      "outlet": "Yahoo Tech",
      "title": "Behold! A single QR code containing a miniaturized take on Doom: 'literally the entire game'",
      "url": "https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/behold-single-qr-code-containing-135737181.html",
      "date": "2025-04-23",
      "project": "Backdooms",
      "description": "Syndication of the PC Gamer Backdooms story, crediting Kuber Mehta."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "BuzzArena",
      "title": "ChatGPT Wrapped 2025 : voici comment avoir votre rétrospective très facilement",
      "url": "https://www.buzzarena.com/chatgpt-wrapped-2025-voici-comment-avoir-votre-retrospective-tres-rapidement-4543067",
      "date": "2025-12-12",
      "project": "ChatGPT Wrapped",
      "description": "French-language how-to for ChatGPT Wrapped 2025, attributing the popular prompt to Kuber (\"@kuberwastaken\")."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "Times of India — TOI Students",
      "title": "Kuber: Saving earth is in our hands",
      "url": "https://toistudent.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/i-say/kuber-saving-earth-is-in-our-hands/41622.html",
      "description": "Student 'I Say' profile of Kuber Mehta in the Times of India student edition."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "LOADING_ — YouTube",
      "title": "[Harness Review] claurst: Rust-based clean-room port of the leaked Claude Code",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_d2IxlHa7Q",
      "project": "Claurst",
      "description": "Korean-language harness review that walks through Claurst by name as the Rust-based clean-room port of the leaked Claude Code."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "Theo (t3.gg) — YouTube",
      "title": "BREAKING: Claude Code source leaked",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvj1mTqyzsQ",
      "project": "Claurst",
      "description": "Theo's video on the Claude Code leak that Kuber documented and that Claurst grew out of."
    },
    {
      "outlet": "ThePrimeagen — YouTube",
      "title": "Claude Code got leaked",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdgRpiQRsis",
      "project": "Claurst",
      "description": "ThePrimeagen's video on the Claude Code leak that Kuber documented and that Claurst grew out of."
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "title": "Encoding Software For Perpetuity: A Compact Representation Of Apollo 11 Guidance Code",
      "author": "David Noever (PeopleTec; formerly NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)",
      "venue": "arXiv:2506.11008",
      "date": "2025-06",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11008",
      "description": "Research preprint on compressing software into QR codes that cites Backdooms as reference [3]: \"The Backdooms project successfully compressed a playable game inspired by DOOM into a QR code by using extreme minification and the DecompressionStream API.\" Bibliography lists \"Mehta, K. (2024). Backdooms.\""
    },
    {
      "title": "Modern LLMs & model harnesses — CSE498 mini-lecture series",
      "author": "Kenneth H. Chan",
      "venue": "Michigan State University, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering",
      "date": "2026-04",
      "url": "https://cse.msu.edu/~chanken1/documents/lectures/minilecture_series_26/modern_llm.pdf",
      "description": "Michigan State University taught a class on model harnesses as part of its CSE498 modern-LLMs mini-lecture series, using Kuber's Claurst (his Rust port of Claude Code) as a worked example."
    }
  ],
  "notable_moments": [
    {
      "title": "Reverse-engineered a $30 smart band into Google's Fitbit app",
      "url": "https://x.com/kuberwastaken/status/2059306990774714715",
      "description": "Reverse-engineered the BLE protocol of a ~$30 Huawei smart band and got Google's new Health/Fitbit app to recognize it as a 'Fitbit Air.' Went viral on X."
    },
    {
      "title": "Pitched world-model caching to YC's Jared Friedman",
      "url": "https://x.com/kuberwastaken/status/2046214473376256101",
      "description": "Pitched his research on caching world models to YC partner Jared Friedman at Startup School Bangalore 2026 (2,000+ audience), who called it the \"obvious future of the video games industry.\" The clip went viral on Instagram (~300k views) and X."
    },
    {
      "title": "Co-hosted the biggest pre-event dinner at YC Startup School Bangalore 2026",
      "url": "https://x.com/kuberwastaken/status/2045345841473622454",
      "description": "Co-hosted the largest community pre-event dinner around YC Startup School Bangalore 2026 (30+ people, reportedly busier than the official YC partner dinner) — running ops remotely from Delhi."
    },
    {
      "title": "AI Summer Resident at Nas Daily (Dubai)",
      "description": "Selected as an AI Summer Resident at Nas Daily in Dubai, shipping small language models (SLMs) and AI apps — with work featured in a viral Nas Daily video.",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Nas Daily intro reel",
          "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKPWvCIuxdQ/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Viral video featuring my work",
          "url": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPeD0f0DlfJ/"
        },
        {
          "label": "My write-up",
          "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7357423048540475394/"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "red_team": [
    {
      "title": "Jailbroke Anthropic's 'Claude Mythos' to reveal its system prompt",
      "url": "https://gist.github.com/Kuberwastaken/bfcf141909166f7dfafac9b7182629f7",
      "description": "While Anthropic's experimental 'Claude Mythos' model was live (~one day), Kuber jailbroke it to extract its full system prompt and published it as a public gist. Went viral on X."
    },
    {
      "title": "Jailbroke Sarvam AI's flagship Indus 105B model in under 15 minutes",
      "url": "https://x.com/kuberwastaken/status/2025161735456559523",
      "date": "2026-02-21",
      "description": "Extracted the system prompt of Sarvam AI's flagship Indus 105B model in under 15 minutes, using the same jailbreaking techniques that worked on GPT-4o in 2024."
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    "AI in media and recommendation algorithms",
    "Multi-agent AI systems",
    "Creative technology and interactive experiences",
    "Gaming and virtual environments",
    "Open source development"
  ],
  "portfolio_features": {
    "type": "Interactive Terminal",
    "technologies": [
      "React",
      "JavaScript",
      "CSS"
    ],
    "features": [
      "30+ terminal commands",
      "Built-in games (Snake, Tetris, 2048, Flappy Bird)",
      "AI assistant (JARVIS)",
      "Calculator and utilities",
      "Dynamic theming system",
      "Mobile responsive design"
    ]
  },
  "last_updated": "2026-08-07"
}