Ashutosh Tripathi

Building tools that give AI agents memory — and the infrastructure that serious teams run on.

What I Work On

Smriti

A persistent memory layer for AI coding sessions. Smriti captures what happens during a session — decisions made, patterns discovered, context built — compresses it semantically, and surfaces the right pieces back in future sessions. The goal: an AI coding assistant that actually remembers your codebase, your preferences, and your reasoning over time.

Thinking a lot about identity resolution, knowledge graph structure, and what it means for a tool to "know" a codebase across sessions rather than starting cold every time.

Avkash — Open-Core HRMS

Open-source HR management platform covering leave, attendance, people directory, org management, policy engine, and Slack integration. Built on Bun, Hono, Drizzle ORM, and Turborepo — designed as a type-safe monorepo where the API contract is the source of truth for both server and client.

Multi-tenant architecture, open core model. The kind of software most companies pay a lot of money for and rarely love.

Language Server in Rust

Experimenting with building a language server from scratch — LSP internals, incremental parsing, and what responsive developer tooling feels like when you're not fighting latency.

Previously

Built developer tooling at Godspeed Systems — plugin architectures for auto-generating type-safe endpoints from OpenAPI specs, pluggable data source systems across 15+ integrations, and a YAML-based dynamic form generator. Also built a live collaborative web IDE and a WebRTC/HLS video streaming platform.

Philosophy

• Systems over features — platforms that let others build faster compound over time
• Type safety at compile time — catch errors before runtime, always
• Open source as design discipline — building in public forces clarity
• Memory matters — context that disappears after a session is context lost

Tech

Current

Runtime:    Bun · Node.js
HTTP:       Hono
ORM:        Drizzle + PostgreSQL
Auth:       Better Auth
Validation: Zod 4
Infra:      Turborepo, pnpm workspaces, Docker
Systems:    Rust (LSP, parsing)

Previously Deep In

React, Next.js, WebRTC, HLS, Webpack/Vite/ESBuild,
Distributed Tracing, GraphQL, Nx monorepos

Connect

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/itszero8
• Email: hello@zero8.dev

"The best measure of a developer tool isn't how powerful it is — it's how quickly someone can forget it exists while getting work done."