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Sahil Mahendrakar
Member #1,900DeveloperL1Software Development Engineer, Independent
Builds paradee · An 8M-parameter English text-to-speech model distilled from Kokoro-82M. 9 MB, runs 18x rea
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Teleport a Claude Code session between your devices. Same conversation, same context, across different machines.
An 8M-parameter English text-to-speech model distilled from Kokoro-82M. 9 MB, runs 18x real time on one CPU thread.
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Sahil Mahendrakar is an independent software development engineer based in New York who builds AI software for developers.
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Co-Founder, Stealth | Prev Agentic AI @ AWS, Columbia CS
Co-Founder · Stealth
Software Development Engineer · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Development Engineer Intern · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer · IronMill
Technology Development Intern · Optum
SEE Program Participant · Jane Street
Cybersecurity Research Team Lead · Westlight AI
Founder and CEO · Tinkr