Devarsh Bagla / Waltham, MA
Computer Science and Economics at Brandeis, Class of 2030. A Chrome extension because I leave forty tabs open instead of setting reminders. A voice assistant for my laptop because Cortana died and nothing replaced it. An app that makes my laptop vibrate through its speakers, because laptops have no haptic motor.
01 / About
Most of what I build is unfinished. The one that isn't is bees.in, a website I designed and shipped end to end for a wealth management firm in Kolkata that had spent twenty-five years on word of mouth and had nothing online. Two months, shipped feature by feature rather than as one launch.
I also published a sole-authored study benchmarking logistic regression, random forests and a deep neural network for customer churn prediction across 64,374 records. The neural network reached 94.1% accuracy against an 83.6% linear baseline.
The part I care about more than either is teaching. I mentored fifteen students for a full academic year at my school's computer club, ran it open to everyone rather than CS students only, and let people build whatever they wanted instead of teaching a syllabus. What I took from it is that people stay when they're building their own idea, and leave the moment it becomes a lecture.
Right now I'm running local language models on integrated graphics because I don't own a discrete GPU, and learning CAD so I can design the parts I print instead of downloading them.
02 / WORK
BEES Network Ltd, Kolkata
Built and shipped the company's first website end to end: information architecture, layout, copy, build, deployment and DNS. A financial planning firm that had operated for twenty-five years entirely on in-person referrals with no web presence. Delivered iteratively, shipping features one at a time rather than as a single launch. Plain HTML and CSS, no framework, built with an AI-assisted workflow.
bees.inIndependent, Jaipur
Taught IGCSE Computer Science, focused on pseudocode and algorithmic problem solving. Took a student from no prior programming exposure to independently solving IGCSE pseudocode problems.
03 / PROJECTS
Laptops have no vibration motor, so a notification is either audible or invisible. DeskPulse fires short bass-heavy bursts below hearing range through the speakers, driving the voice coil hard enough that the chassis itself vibrates. It auto-triggers on notifications, calls, new email and errors. Usable in a silent library, and by anyone who cannot rely on audio cues.
Best on a laptop with the volume up. You should feel it more than hear it.
A voice assistant for my laptop. Recognises my voice, changes system settings, sends email, and routes anything complicated to language models running locally on my own machine rather than a cloud API. Built because I was used to Gemini on a tablet and Siri on a phone, and it always bothered me that my laptop could not do the same after Cortana was discontinued.
I don't set reminders, I leave tabs open and come back to them. RAM is expensive and my laptop can only take so much. SnapBack snoozes entire tab groups and brings them back on a trigger: arriving at a location, a calendar event starting, or a date being reached.
A task list drawn directly into the Windows desktop layer, behind the icons, using WorkerW. That is undocumented Windows shell behaviour, which is most of why I wanted to build it. Includes a live countdown strip in the taskbar.
Not software, a method. Every project I run carries three files: one recording where the work actually stands, one telling an agent how this specific project is structured and what not to touch, and a scoped rules file. A session that dies at 2am gets picked up cold the next morning without re-explaining the codebase. I built it because my problem was never writing code, it was abandoning things at sixty percent, and the cost was all in rebuilding context.
A browser chess coach that plays you, reviews your moves and tracks improvement. Rebuilt the storage layer so games survive a refresh, and moved the engine's move search onto a background thread so the board stopped freezing while it calculated.
An editorial publication site, built and deployed on Vercel with DNS configured through GoDaddy, followed by a full UI audit and fixes.
fromdusttozenith.inA working replica of a graphing calculator, rebuilt from its specification.
04 / RESEARCH
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH · VOL 13, ISSUE 10 · OCTOBER 2025
Benchmarked three approaches to customer churn prediction on a 64,374-record dataset with 12 attributes. Built the full preprocessing pipeline: mean and mode imputation, one-hot encoding, min-max normalisation, IQR-based outlier handling, and SMOTE oversampling to correct class imbalance. Ran three independent feature selection methods in WEKA, which converged on the same ten-attribute subset. Hyperparameters tuned by grid search under ten-fold cross-validation.
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RANDOM FOREST: 200 TREES · DNN: 3 HIDDEN LAYERS, RELU, 0.3 DROPOUT, ADAM · TUNING: GRID SEARCH, 10-FOLD CV · TOOLING: WEKA
05 / TEACHING AND COMMUNITY
2025–2026 · MENTOR, BYTEBUILDERS
My school's computer club, open to any student rather than only those taking CS. Mentored 15 students for two hours a week across a full academic year, roughly 72 contact hours, working from whatever each person actually wanted to build instead of a syllabus. Several of them had never written a line of code.
15 STUDENTS · 72 HOURS
2024–2025 · CAMPAIGN LEAD, FUELADREAM x GO GIRL FOUNDATION
Founded and ran a crowdfunding campaign distributing reusable sanitary pads to girls and women in rural Rajasthan. No institutional backing, no mailing list, no existing audience. Most gifts came in at a few dollars each, so it was 52 separate conversations and follow-ups rather than a handful of large donations. I travelled to the schools and handed the products over myself.
290% OF TARGET · 52 FUNDERS
fueladream.com2021–2024 · SECRETARY, AUDIO-VISUAL SQUAD, THE SCINDIA SCHOOL
Three years from member to Joint Secretary to Secretary. Led a five-person technical team running sound, lighting and projection for daily assemblies and more than thirty major events, including inter-school festivals with outside performers and audiences of several hundred. Most of what I learned was about failure: late vendors, microphones dying mid-performance, cues changing during the show.
30+ EVENTS · TEAM OF 5
2023 · SCHOOL RENOVATION, BHIND, MADHYA PRADESH
One week with roughly a hundred classmates rebuilding a rural government primary school serving around a thousand children. Hand-mixed cement, bricklaying, foundations and painting, in temperatures near 45°C.
06 / THE WORKBENCH
Most CS students cannot draw. Most designers cannot program. This is the loop I am trying to close.
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07 / CONTACT
I'm most interested in hardware-adjacent software, AI tooling, and anything that involves teaching people to build. Email is the fastest way to reach me.