Maanas Nair | HOLYSH★TMAANAS

I make projects that make you say it. B.Tech student at VIT Vellore, building IoT firmware, speech models and the networks in between.

Two patent applications filed, radar firmware that reads a dog’s heartbeat, and a VPN that kept 200 CTF players out of each other’s way.

maanas@hsm:~$ ls -R

Selected work

Speech-to-text for Sanskrit that thinks in phonemes instead of English spelling.

41.7% → 28–32% word error rate

Patent application filed

Firmware that turns a 60 GHz radar sensor into a heart-rate and breathing monitor for dogs.

±0.5 bpm accuracy

IoT research internship at MyPerro (Shark Tank India)

A tourist safety platform with digital IDs and an incident ledger that can’t be edited.

sub-100 ms p99 at 500 connections

Smart India Hackathon 2025

537 contributions in the last year at github.com/itsmebirdie