Founder • researcher • seeker
Sourya Kakarla
I am a seeker of truth and love grokking the universe through multi-disciplinary understanding. I love building things that are open and useful. I have a bias towards depth over noise.
That ethic runs through agent infrastructure, multilingual language systems, cryptography, civilizational study, philosophy/spirituality, with a preference for open source and positive-sum games.
In a universe this large, ego is cheap. Contribution is expensive. Significance, if it exists at all, has to be earned through action: build in the open, enlarge the commons, and choose games where more people gain capability than lose it. Depth matters when it produces calm, patient, durable action.
Working principles
Humility in scale. Seriousness in action.
Cosmic humility sharpens action.
Being a speck in the universe is not a reason to withdraw. It removes vanity and clarifies duty.
Patience is an operating advantage.
The work is approached without hurry or theatricality. Calm thinking tends to produce systems that survive reality.
Open source is applied optimism.
Share code, workflows, and notes so other builders can inspect, reuse, and extend the work.
Philosophy should survive contact with code.
Research, language, security, and civilizational study matter when they become useful, grounded action in the world.
Domains in dialogue
Different disciplines, one ethic of contribution.
Sovereign agent systems
Current work at Zone centers on provider-independent agent infrastructure for an open agent ecosystem: model portability, adaptation layers, trace memory, and the operational harness that makes real-world systems dependable.
Sovereignty • portability • open agent ecosystem
Language, linguistics, and multilingual intelligence
From speech-enabled commerce in rural India to enterprise travel agents and applied NLP research, language is treated as a living system that must meet people where they are, not where the product wishes they were.
Speech • NLP • multilingual systems • shared understanding
Cryptography and adversarial rigor
Research in AES cryptanalysis, key-recovery attacks, and applied security created a technical temperament that values integrity before convenience, and the discipline of thinking from failure modes inward.
AES • PAEQ • InfoSec research • adversarial integrity
Vedic science, puranic knowledge, and civilizational study
The deeper frame is not merely technical. Ongoing study of Hindu philosophical traditions, mythic structures, and civilizational memory informs the ethical and existential shape of the work.
Dharma • puranas • philosophy • meaning beyond ego
Selected work
Contribution is the natural state of being.
Shipped systems, foundational research, and open tooling intended to leave more capability in the commons than they extract from it.
Zone
Infrastructure for sovereign agent systems, centered on portability, adaptation, and trace memory.
botfiles / Personal OS
Open-source work on coding agents, personal infrastructure, and reusable workflows that make autonomous tools more practical for other builders.
SkyLink
Led ML for an AI travel agent used by enterprise teams, serving 40k+ users across companies like McKinsey, Tesla, and Bain. Acquired by Amadeus.
Ladduu
Built multilingual voice and commerce products for rural India, including WhatsApp and mobile agents for real users in real linguistic contexts.
AES cryptanalysis research
Published practical key-recovery and impossible differential attacks on reduced-round AES and PAEQ ciphers.
Stop Clickbait
Chrome extension and research project on clickbait detection; won Best Paper at ASONAM 2016.
Trajectory
A builder shaped by research, industry, and first-hand contact with users.
2025 —
2023 – 2025
2022 – 2023
2021 – 2022
2019 – 2021
2017 – 2019
2012 – 2017
Study and temperament
Literature, mythology, philosophy, and cosmology keep the technical work proportionate, patient, and inwardly quiet.
Reading
Started with fiction — ASOIAF, Hitchhiker's Guide, Stranger in a Strange Land, Catch-22. Drifted into a long non-fiction and "seeking" phase across Camus, Hesse, Dawkins, Harari, and the Sanatana Dharma, Buddhist, and Advaita traditions that still shape how duty, meaning, and moral consequence show up. Currently: The Infinite Game. Goodreads →
Music
Taste runs in seasons. Eastern devotional (Shiva Tandava Stotram, Aigiri Nandini), western classic/soft rock (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin), and East–West fusion when the two meet cleanly. Can't sing, but have written a bit — a song in Telugu.
Writing
Scribbled poems as a cathartic pastime since school. "Holy Nature" — a favourite of mine — was featured in Poets of Columbia.
Soccer
Arsenal fan, Gooner for life. Receiving a Gold Medal through MS Hall in the IIT KGP General Championship is a highlight of the soccer life. FIFA is the one video game that stuck.
Full publications, awards, and the downloadable CV live on the resume page →