# About Ashutosh Tripathi (zero8)

zero8.dev is the personal site of Ashutosh Tripathi — a software engineer with a decade of product engineering behind him, now working on developer tools, AI memory infrastructure, and agent systems.

I build systems where the contract between components is precise enough that both engineers and AI agents can reason about what's happening — typed pipelines, clear queue handoffs, error messages that tell you exactly what broke and why. The same principle applies whether you're debugging a deliverability issue or reasoning about an AI agent's state.

Smriti comes from the same instinct applied to the development layer. Every AI session starts fresh — decisions lost, context duplicated, zero continuity across teammates. Smriti captures Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex sessions locally, indexes them with hybrid search, and synthesises context on demand using a local LLM. Team knowledge syncs through git. Nothing touches the cloud.

Before that, a decade across frontend engineering, video streaming infrastructure, and developer experience. I also consult on developer tools, API design, and the systems that surround AI-assisted engineering workflows.

## Background

A decade across frontend engineering, video streaming infrastructure, and developer experience — shipping products used by real teams rather than demos. Work has spanned a visual builder for the Godspeed Framework, a workflow automation platform for Veolia Japan, HLS and adaptive-bitrate video delivery, and the developer-experience layer around all of it.

Today the focus is narrower: the infrastructure that lets engineers and AI agents operate on the same codebase without either one guessing. Typed pipelines, explicit queue handoffs, error messages that name the failure, and a memory layer so agents stop starting from zero every session.

## How I work

- Fully remote and async, from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India (Asia/Kolkata).
- Contract, consulting, and advisory engagements — not full-time employment.
- Contracts, invoicing, and payments run through Zero8 Dot Dev Pvt. Ltd..
- Written communication first. Decisions get written down, which is also why the writing on this site exists.

## Elsewhere

- GitHub: https://github.com/ashu17706
- GitHub (org): https://github.com/zero8dotdev
- X: https://x.com/zero8dotdev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itszero8/
- Email: hello@zero8.dev

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