Prajwal HD

Now

Updated April 2026

• Looking for AI engineer and backend/full-stack roles with end-to-end ownership. California, remote, or hybrid.
• Building QuackCode, a Linux-first desktop agent, and Gitwise, a CLI that writes commit messages from staged diffs.
• Stress-testing agent workflows on real codebases: tool use, git safety, isolation, and recovery when the model gets it wrong.
• Reading: Designing Data-Intensive Applications (re-read), papers on LLM tool use evaluation.

Featured work

Peer-reviewedMDPI Electronics · 2026

Re-Evaluating Android Malware Detection: Tabular Features, Vision Models, and Ensembles

Hosahalli Dayananda, P.; Chen, Z.

Compares tabular static features, vision-based byte-plot models, and ensemble strategies for Android malware classification. Evaluates where modality choice changes the detection surface and where ensembles actually pay for themselves.

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Projects

QuackCode

Linux-first desktop coding agent with worktree isolation, local history, and scheduled automations.

Developer ToolsElectronGitSQLite

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Gitwise

CLIGitTypeScript

CLI that turns staged diffs into commit messages and plain English into branch names.

Multimodal Malware Detection

PythonMLSecurity

Master's thesis comparing static-feature and visual-bytecode classifiers for malware detection under a controlled evaluation.

Guardscribe

PythonASRNLP

Real-time speech moderation pipeline that masks toxic spans under a 400ms end-to-end latency budget.

Writing

Talks