AI Engineer & CS Student
RITESH MINCHINAL
Building intelligent agents and the observability tools that keep them honest — currently engineering Vigil, an open-source platform that automatically diagnoses why AI agents fail in production.
01 // Skills
Technical
Arsenal
02 // Experience
Where I've
Worked
03 // Projects
What I've
Built
An open-source observability platform for AI agents — captures every LLM call and tool use, then automatically classifies failures across 7 modes including hallucination, tool misuse, infinite loops, prompt injection, context overflow, intent drift, and retry storms. Built with a one-line SDK so teams can see why an agent failed, not just that it did.
A full-fidelity simulation of an astronaut that models fatigue, sleep deprivation, mission events, and physiological responses using probabilistic inputs, event-based simulation, and BioGears integration — predicting performance and health across extended missions.
Built entirely from scratch in Python — implements CBBA for distributed task allocation, A* for path planning, and RVO2 for real-time collision avoidance across multiple autonomous robots.
AI agent that masters Ms. Pac-Man using DQN with experience replay and target networks, trained end-to-end in PyTorch and Gymnasium.
Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C) with parallel environments and a shared network in PyTorch, trained on a custom KungFu game environment.
DQN agent trained to solve LunarLander-v3 in PyTorch on Google Colab, achieving consistent soft landings through reward shaping and target network stabilisation.
04 // Certifications
Learning
Never Stops
05 // Achievements
Recognition
Ranked in the top 10 of the nationwide Gen AI Challenge hosted by Great Learning, competing against 1,000+ participants across India.
Received a Distinction Award from PES University, Bangalore, recognising exceptional performance.
Achieved 90.7% in 12th standard at BASE PU College, Bangalore — demonstrating consistent academic excellence.
Built 6 substantive AI & robotics projects independently during undergraduate years, from digital twins to multi-robot systems, demonstrating rare depth and applied skill.
Selected to build Vigil as part of PES University Venture Labs' Acceleration & Bootcamp Cohort (ABC) 2026 program.
Earned a Black Belt in Karate with 10+ years of dedicated training, discipline, and competitive experience.
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06 // Contact
Let's Build
Something
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