Vladimir Khegai

I build AI products that do not make things up.

CS and Math at Rhodes College. Co-founder and CTO of Winitt. Open to Summer 2027 software engineering internships.

Work

Daviance

Co-founder, 2026

Proof of what an AI coding agent actually did.

Caught 42 of 42 planted cheats in the latest benchmark. 0 false accusations to date across 1,793 honest cases.

Stack: Rust, Tree-sitter, ed25519, MCP

Read the case study for Daviance

Winitt

Co-founder and CTO, 2026 – present

Real-time live trivia for bars, with synchronized rounds and prizes.

Server-authoritative timing so answer speed is scored fairly on every device.

Stack: Next.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ

Nodex

Solo, 2025

Hands-free YouTube control by head gesture.

Published on the Chrome Web Store under Accessibility; all face tracking stays on the device.

Stack: TypeScript, Chrome MV3, MediaPipe

Chrome Web Store for Nodex

TrancheLab

Co-founder, 2025 – present

Capital structures out of Chapter 11 filings.

Every figure links to its source page, and a CI gate checks output against real cases (JOANN, Hertz, Rite Aid).

Stack: Python, LLM pipelines, PDF parsing, PostgreSQL

GitHub for TrancheLab

Experience

  1. Co-founder and CTO, Winitt

    2026 – present, Memphis, TN

    Architecting a real-time trivia platform for bars; I own the core architecture decisions and record them as ADRs. A 3-person founding team: a CEO, a go-to-market lead, and me as CTO.

  2. Software Engineering Intern, Geeks Pro

    May 2024 – Feb 2025, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

    Shipped 10+ Django REST Framework endpoints (auth, CRUD, reporting) for an agriculture-sector client; introduced an abstract Django base model inherited by 20+ models; worked in a 5-person Agile team.

  3. Freelance Full-Stack Developer, Kyrgyz Taekwondo ITF Federation

    2024 – present, Remote

    Built and maintain the federation's website (Django, React, PostgreSQL), self-hosted on a Linux VPS with Nginx.

More projects

  • 2026

    PlayLab

    , Winner, DSH Hacks

    Tower defense where the weapon is a function; a deterministic verifier proves each wave is beatable.

    Stack: Vanilla JS, Canvas

    Devpost for PlayLab

  • 2026

    SIFT Sentinel

    , FIND EVIL!

    Memory forensics that cannot invent evidence.

    Stack: Python, MCP, Volatility3

    Devpost for SIFT Sentinel

  • 2026

    Phantom Dev

    , Gemini Live Agent Challenge

    Vision-based agent that operates desktop apps without APIs or DOM access.

    Stack: Python, Gemini Live API, Cloud Run, Firestore

    No link

  • 2026

    Golden Scout

    , Hacklytics 2026

    NBA contract decision engine using Monte Carlo simulation.

    Stack: React, FastAPI, Gemini, ElevenLabs

    Devpost for Golden ScoutGitHub for Golden Scout

  • 2026

    FairNotice

    , STEMINATE 2026

    Legal documents in plain English.

    Stack: Next.js, Groq, OCR

    Devpost for FairNotice

  • 2025

    cairn

    , Splunk Agentic Ops

    Onboarding guide for an undocumented Splunk instance.

    Stack: Python, FastAPI, MCP, Groq

    Devpost for cairn

  • 2025

    Sift

    , DeveloperWeek NY

    Deal trust agent.

    Stack: Next.js, LLM

    Devpost for Sift

  • 2025

    TaxShift

    , DSOC Summer

    Forward-looking tax estimator.

    Stack: React

    Devpost for TaxShift

  • 2025

    CatTab

    , Chrome Web Store

    A pixel cat that lives on every page.

    Stack: TypeScript, Chrome MV3, Canvas

    Chrome Web Store for CatTab

  • 2025

    MedVibe

    iOS health tracker with document scanning.

    Stack: Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData

    GitHub for MedVibe

About

I build AI products that do not make things up. At TrancheLab we pull capital structures out of bankruptcy filings, the kind of work where one wrong number costs someone millions. So I do not ask the model to be trustworthy. I write the code that checks it against real cases before anything ships. Daviance takes the same idea further and applies it to AI coding agents.

I grew up in Bishkek and I am the first in my family to do any of this. Most of what I build started as something I was annoyed did not exist yet. A prototype takes a weekend. The real work is the months after, making it reliable enough that I would put my name on it.

When I am not building I am an ITF Taekwondo world champion. Sparring taught me the thing I bring to software: nobody gives you points for how good it looked in practice.

Education

Rhodes College, B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics

Expected May 2029

  • GPA 4.0
  • Diehl Scholar (full academic merit)
  • Jack U. Russell Award, First-Year Computer Science (2026)

Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Parallel Systems, Computer Organization, Object-Oriented Programming, Discrete Structures

Leadership

  • Vice President, Rhodes College Computer Science Club
  • Secretary, Rhodes College AI & ML Club
  • Resident Assistant, Rhodes College, Fall 2026 – present
  • Head Event Organizer, Turkic Student Association, 2026 – present

Awards

  • ITF Taekwondo World Champion, 2025
  • ITF World Games Champion, 2024
  • ITF Asian Champion, 2021
  • Winner, DSH Hacks, 2026
  • 11 hackathons, Devpost profile

Research

  • Co-authored paper on single versus grouped wind turbine efficiency using IoT sensor data, SSRN, 2024, Read on SSRN

Languages

English, Russian, Kyrgyz