Vinyas V

Things I've built

Matchy Matchy

Matchy Matchy is an e-commerce search engine built to help people find product alternatives from trusted retailers. The goal behind this project is to encourage people to make better purchase decisions for themselves and for the planet.

From a technical perspective, our advantage is our focus on e-commerce and our smaller more curated index.

I architected and built the entire product.

Obsess

Obsess is an experiential e-commerce platform. The company was recently acquired for $25M by Infinite Reality. I worked as a Senior Product Manager on their e-commerce platform. I lead the 0-1 development of the platform, which played a key role in the acquisition.

Mydocc

Mydocc was a primarily academic project I worked on while at Grad school. We used a computer vision model to digitize healthcare records in India. The project ultimately ran into data compliance issues and was never fully commercialized/launched.

I however, learnt how to do product things- talk to users, work with engineers, design the user experience and design the system architecture.

Data Scraper with a Vector DB Integration

A free, open-source tool that scrapes product data from e-commerce sites and upserts it into a vector database. Built with crawl4ai, it provides the foundation for building advanced search solutions and RAG agents. The tool is adaptable to different data structures, making it versatile for various applications beyond e-commerce.

Contextual Retrieval

A system based on the recent Anthropic paper on the same topic that improves accuracy of RAG agents. Adds "context" to every piece of chunked data for more accurate retrieval. Built the functionality to ingest a piece of data, chunk the said data, add context to each of the chunks and embeds it into a vector a database.

Webpage to Markdown

A simple dev tool that allows developers to get the markdown of a webpage. Very helpful when working with LLMs particularly for quickly copying documentation.

unsent texts

An experimental art website exploring the vulnerability felt when unsending a typed message.