Portfolio Pune, India

Pratham Kode.

Building language models from scratch.

I work on language models, from tokenizers and pretraining to the infrastructure that makes them run. Currently building Particle and studying computer science in Pune.

Work

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Particle

2026 — Present

Founder

Building and releasing language models from scratch. Trained a 109.5M-parameter Llama-style model on ~2B tokens and shipped the Particle 1.0, 1.6, and 2.0 releases.

Cantiffin

Jun — Aug 2025

Founder & lead full-stack developer

Built a food-ordering platform used by 70+ people, with real-time order tracking.

Selected projects

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Smartwatch-LM

Tiny GPT-style models trained from scratch for on-device smartwatch assistants. Paper accepted at NLPIR 2026.

DolphinAI

A retrieval-augmented chatbot for marine data. AI Genesis finalist, top 10 of 200+ teams.

TruePaper

An Ethereum app for immutable academic certificates, using on-chain hashes and IPFS.

Background

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EducationB.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune. Expected 2028.

SkillsPython, PyTorch, Transformers, distributed training, AWS, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

RecognitionUncanny Hackathon winner (2026), AI Genesis finalist, and Monad Blitz runner-up.