Knowledge systems
Prototype BrickLens
Semantic fault detection for buildings
Connects building models and sensor data to localise faults and surface the supporting evidence.
Brick Schema · Neo4j · Python
View project & code →Hi, I'm Vinay.
I build software that connects data, knowledge, and AI.
I'm a scientist and software engineer with a background in computational modelling and research software. My current work centres on applied AI engineering, particularly designing systems that use semantic models, ontologies, and knowledge graphs to bring domain context into AI applications.
Selected projects
All repositories ↗ Research data
Open source FairDataHive
A FAIR research data catalogue
Helps teams describe and discover datasets through structured metadata, access workflows, and semantic search.
FastAPI · PostgreSQL · pgvector
View project & code →Latest writing
Browse the blog → Git 23 October 2026
Learn Git from first principles
A 13-chapter visual guide that builds Git from a text editor and folder copies — snapshots, parents, branches, hashes, merges, staging, objects, and reflog — before the commands have to mean anything.
View on the blog →A little background
I spent several years at NTNU and Aalto University, developing research software, data systems, and modelling tools. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from NTNU and also run DatumInt, a consulting practice focused on applied AI and data systems.
PhD in Computer Science · NTNU, 2017