When AI writes better code.
I’ve been coding since eighth grade. Now I’m building an IDE that gives an interface for parallely validating AI-generated code.
Currently building · Headwig
Currently building · Headwig
“If AI is writing the code, I want to spend my time validating the results.”
As AI Agents entered my workflow, I realised I had to wait for every agent to finish before I could proceed to validate. And prompt next.
I’m building Headwig, an IDE built around validation: a place to evaluate results, compare approaches, and evaluate performance in isolation while agents work in parallel.
The Beginning
Not every founder's journey begins in a city with a startup ecosystem. Sometimes it begins in a quiet town, with curiosity, ambition, and the feeling that the world is larger than what surrounds you.
Growing up in Purnea, Bihar, ambition had to be self-generated. There was no startup culture, no network of mentors, no visible path. But there was a particular kind of drive that small towns give you, the one that asks what's possible beyond the horizon.
That drive carried me to IIT Bombay, where I didn't just study, I built. Products used by thousands. Communities that shaped campus life. Systems that outlasted my time there. And then to Hilti Group, where I touched something different: the intersection of industrial hardware, large-scale software, and real-world manufacturing.
Today, I’m building Headwig alongside my work at Hilti. Years of building software have led me to a new question: when AI writes the code, how should we spend our time engineering the result?
Earlier Chapter · Co-Founder
Before Tamaso, I co-founded Faoud to bring greater visibility and structure to Indian manufacturing. We built workflows for factory discovery, bid comparison, production tracking, quality control, and execution.
Working closely with factories made one thing clear: organisations do not only need more software. They need an intelligence system that understands how their data, people, machines, and processes fit together. That learning became part of the foundation for Tamaso.
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Operational dashboard
System architecture
Avery Dennison ecosystem
Earlier project · Prototype work
Tamaso explored how fragmented operational data could become a contextual model of how an organisation worked, helping people understand their operations and make better decisions.
We visited factories, spoke with managers and operators, and mapped how information moved between people, machines, and existing systems. We designed prototypes for a mushroom factory and Mypol.
Industrial Software
At Hilti Group, I work as a software engineer on modeling software used in large-scale MEP and structural applications, touching systems that operate at the intersection of 3D modeling, industrial hardware, and real construction environments.
An observation visit to Switzerland, including the Lonza facility, grounded this work in physical reality. It changed how I think about software.
Modeling Software
Contributed to software that enables engineers to model modular support systems for MEP applications. Worked on geometry logic, real-time rendering decisions, and integration across platforms.
Platform Integrations
Worked with integrations across Navisworks, Revit, and RSTAB, understanding how construction data flows through digital modeling environments and where software augments physical installation.
Team MEP
Part of Team MEP, a cross-functional group focused on mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems software. Experienced agile collaboration across global engineering teams.
Switzerland Exposure
Visited the Lonza facility in Switzerland, observing how software-designed systems translate to hardware installations in large industrial environments. This grounded my understanding of software's physical stakes.
IIT Bombay, Builder Years
At IIT Bombay, I didn't wait for a startup, I built one within the campus itself. Products that touched thousands of students. Communities that reshaped how people talked to each other. Systems that had to work at scale, from day one.
Campus Platform
Contributed to InstiApp, the central campus application for events, academics, and student life at IIT Bombay. Built features that shaped daily campus interaction.
20,000+ Downloads
Community Layer
Designed and built a community conversations feature within InstiApp, covering local politics, buy/sell, and student interaction. Essentially a campus social layer.
Active Campus-wide Adoption
Infrastructure
Built systems for campus mess operations, including inventory, feedback, and operational tooling for student dining infrastructure at scale.
Campus Mess Operations
Onboarding
Contributed to NewBee, the induction portal for incoming students, a welcoming system that shaped the first experience of thousands of new IITians.
All New Students, Every Year
Developer Community
Active contributor to DevCom, IIT Bombay's developer community. Participated in building the culture of technical building and open-source contribution on campus.
Developer Ecosystem
Creative Technology
Built an AR game integrating computer vision with a physical toy car, blending hardware and software interaction into a cohesive game world. Not just code, but world-building.
Hardware + Software Integration
Entrepreneurial Experiment
In my final year at IIT Bombay, I started A pH Scale, a small storytelling and marketing agency created to understand how products communicate. Every brand has a story that hasn't been told well yet. We told it.
It was an experiment in business, creativity, and execution, proof that a technical person can also understand what moves people. Design, writing, strategy, all of it built from scratch.
Creative Work
Filmmaking taught me what no engineering course could: how to shape attention, how to create meaning from sequence, and how to make someone care about something abstract. I won at Inter-IIT film competitions and received the Xiaomi Ad Award, recognition that storytelling, when done with precision, is indistinguishable from craft.
This isn't a hobby that runs parallel to my technical work. It is the lens through which I build products, with a sense of narrative, user experience as story, and interfaces as conversations.
The Journey
The Beginning
Grew up in Purnea, a small city in Bihar where ambition had to be self-made. No startup culture, no visible shortcuts. Just curiosity and a drive to understand how the world worked, and how to build in it. Sold servives to build homepage to get funds for idea of edtech. It was named MagicalStud. My personal gmail today is harshatmagicalstud@gmail.com.
Got introduced to IITs by my guru in hometown, Batul Da Sir. He used to say
Entrance & Arrival
Joined IIT Bombay for a Chemical Engineering major and a minor in Computer Science, and immediately started building. The campus became a laboratory for products, communities, and creative work. A lot of what I know about building for users was shaped here.
Builder Years
Four years of shipping. Products used by 20,000+ students. Communities that shaped campus discourse. Systems that handled real-world constraints. Every project was a lesson in scope, scale, and speed.
Creative Chapter
Ran a marketing agency, made films that won at Inter-IIT, won an ad award from Xiaomi. Discovered that building things and telling stories about them are not separate disciplines, they are the same skill, expressed differently.
Industry Exposure
Joined Hilti as an engineer working on 3D modeling software for MEP systems. Built in Three.js, integrated with Navisworks, Revit, and RSTAB. Understood industrial software from the inside.
Global Perspective
Observation visit to Switzerland, including the Lonza facility. Saw how software-designed modular systems translate into physical hardware installations. The gap between digital model and factory floor became viscerally clear.
Building in Manufacturing
Co-founded Faoud and built manufacturing workflows for factory discovery, bid comparison, production visibility, quality, and execution. The experience revealed the deeper need for a connected intelligence layer across physical operations.
Prototype Work
Explored an intelligence layer for physical operations through factory visits and conversations with managers and operators. We designed prototypes for a mushroom factory and Mypol.
Now
Building Headwig, an IDE built around validation, alongside my work at Hilti. I’m exploring how engineers can evaluate results and compare approaches while agents work in parallel.
Recognition
01
Inter-IIT Film Winner
Won at the Inter-IIT cultural competition for film, competing across top technical institutes in India.
02
Xiaomi Ad Award
Received a creative award from Xiaomi for advertising work, proof that technical minds can build compelling narratives.
03
InstiApp, 20K+ Users
Contributed to IIT Bombay's flagship student app, reaching over 20,000 downloads across the campus community.
04
Hilti Group, Industrial Software
Work on Hilti’s global modeling software, contributing to systems used in large-scale MEP and structural projects worldwide.
05
Faoud, Avery Dennison Recognition
Faoud was presented and recognised in the Avery Dennison ecosystem, validating its approach to manufacturing software.
06
Switzerland Industrial Visit
Selected for an observation visit to Lonza, Switzerland, gaining firsthand understanding of industrial hardware systems and their software backbone.
07
IIT Bombay, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science Minor
Graduate of IIT Bombay, one of India's most competitive technical institutions, with a major in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Computer Science.
08
A pH Scale, Founder
Founded and ran a creative marketing agency from campus, proving that technical builders can also think in brand, story, and market.
A Parting Thought
I came from Purnea. I build for the world. Everything between those two facts is the story I’m still writing. Today, I’m exploring how software engineers can turn the time AI saves into better results.