Ishar Ghura

I build ML systems and the infrastructure they run on. Computer Science at Carleton University, graduating 2027.

ML engineer at Frizzle (YC S25) and JSI. Worked with G-Research and Meta as an MLH Fellow on open-source and production engineering.

Experience

Chalkalong demo: photographing a derivative problem and watching the narrated whiteboard lesson

Founder

Chalkalong · Sep 2026 – Present

Snap a photo of a math problem and get a narrated, step-by-step whiteboard lesson you can interrupt with questions.

 Diagram: student work routed across Vertex AI, Azure, Bedrock and OpenAI, then scored by an LLM judge

ML Engineer Intern

Frizzle (YC S25) · May–Aug 2026

Built the LLM inference engine and LLM-as-a-judge evals for grading handwritten math. Fine-tuned Gemini on real student data.

 Diagram: E2E test CLI, then Armada scheduling jobs across Kubernetes clusters

Software Engineer Fellow

G-Research × MLH · May–Aug 2026

Open-source infra on Armada, a multi-cluster Kubernetes batch scheduler. Built E2E test tooling and redesigned the Spark-on-K8s build.

 Diagram: benchmark grid scoring models on accuracy, latency, cost and policy

ML Engineer Intern

JSI · Jan–Apr 2026

Built a benchmarking platform that evaluates 50+ models across 100+ language pairs, running on vLLM, Triton, and Kubernetes.

 Diagram: Postgres primary fails over to a replica while backups stream to object storage

AI Infra Engineer Intern

JSI · Sep–Dec 2025 · Stars Award

Ran highly available PostgreSQL on Kubernetes (AWS) for AI workloads, with point-in-time recovery and Prometheus/Grafana observability.

 Diagram: an Airflow DAG running tasks in order

Software Engineer Fellow

Apache Airflow × MLH · Sep–Dec 2025

Contributed to Apache Airflow with guidance from AWS engineers. Sponsored by RBC.

 Diagram: requests through an NGINX rate limiter to app replicas

Production Engineer Fellow

Meta × MLH · Jun–Sep 2025

Picked as 1 of 44 from 4,000+ applicants for the Meta × MLH fellowship. Tuned NGINX to handle 10k+ req/min at 99.9% uptime and cut manual deploy time by 90%.

 Diagram: Devpost project page to team members, their past GitHub repos, compared against the submission and flagged

Founder

HackVerify · Mar 2025 – Mar 2026

Automated hackathon plagiarism detection that flags suspicious submissions using Devpost links.

 Diagram: ETL pipeline moving rows from source to target

Data Engineer Intern

Global Affairs Canada · Jun–Dec 2024

Built ETL pipelines and T-SQL migrations to move government data accurately between systems.
Diagram: Google Sign-In through Supabase Auth into a mood check-in screen

Software Engineer

SunnySide · Apr 2024 – Sep 2025

Built Google Sign-In with Supabase Auth and mood-tracking React Native screens for a mental health app.

Also

Projects

Diagram: the robot drives with ultrasonic pings, its camera finds a crack in a wall, and an on-device vision model reports it

Autonomous Inspection Robot

Raspberry Pi robot that finds cracks and leaks using an offline vision LLM.

 Diagram: a walker hears a warning from the left as a pole approaches, and the hazard lands on the city fix-first map

Beluga

Directional warning sounds for blind and low-vision pedestrians, plus a fix-first hazard list for the city.

 Shrimp Check demo

Shrimp Check

Posture detection with computer vision.

 QNX Roomba demo

QNX Roomba

A Roomba running QNX that follows light.

 FoodBank AI demo

FoodBank AI

Food recognition for food bank donations.

 AI Chatbot demo

AI Chatbot

An assistant for everyday tasks.

 Discord Chess Bot demo

Discord Chess Bot

Play chess against a bot inside any Discord server.

Outside of work

I play guitar. Covers and originals are on YouTube →