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The limelight
Arvind Venkataraman
Classically learned, cosmically wired, technically proven.
Arvind builds things: AI and digital transformations for Fortune 500s at McKinsey, a tutoring marketplace started in his college dorm with $250, and SPAC and trading analytics for a $2B fund.
Lately, a growing fleet of browser instruments, games, and worlds — audiovisual playgrounds, data pipelines, and a vision for the future. Precise because he has to be, underground because he wants to be.
The record
Field notes
The professional line, in brief. Facts below, story above.
McKinsey & Company — Associate, Seattle: digital, analytics & AI transformations for Fortune 500s; contributor to Rewired and MGI AI policy research.
Cornell Tech MBA — digital fabrication, blockchain, the Law of Robots, M&A law & VC; Fund Manager at Big Red Ventures.
Q Investments — four years of enterprise risk at the $2B multi-strategy family office: a $150M SPAC portfolio and a $1B treasury hedge book.
Dallas County Audubon Society — Treasurer, 2021–2022: financial officer of the org managing Cedar Ridge Preserve — prairie habitat kept wild, conservation kept funded.
Television — Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, 2016: eight answers, $5,000, and peace eventually made with Bruce Springsteen. Watch the clip
Apollo Tutors — co-founded as an SMU freshman with $250 and a stack of flyers; 12 universities and 50,000 free tutoring hours. The founding story
SMU — BBA Finance, financial valuations track — the alternative-assets feeder.
Debate — 2012 Texas state champion, Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking — read into the Congressional Record.
Elsewhere — LinkedIn · an essay in defense of the liberal arts.
Built solo with AI-assisted vibe coding — engineered like instruments, kept like a garden.
The arcade
Games
Self-contained browser games. No installs, no accounts — open a page and play.
Game
RESPLICE
the recombinant runner
A runner built on splicing — stages authored, recombined, and rerun. The fleet's stage-authoring gold standard lives here.
Play →
Game
TALON TACTICS
the origin lineage
Tactics with talons — cockpit instruments and sprite factories. The lab-and-playbook discipline the rest of the fleet descends from started here.
Play →
Game
PHRASEBLOOM
words in bloom
A game of phrases in bloom. One self-contained page — open it and play.
Play →
Game
SOAR
flight on rails
Altitude, banking, and speed play the AVIARY synth engines directly, through a quantizer that makes a wrong note structurally impossible. Fly it and it sings.
Play →
Game
GYRE
free flight in 3D
SOAR's sibling, off the rails — full three-dimensional flight in the same sound-world.
Play →
WIP
VANTARA CHRONICLES
the LLM-driven RPG
An RPG where your decisions change the outcome of the world — no two adventures are the same. In progress, playable as it grows.
Preview →
The sound system
Music
Browser instruments from the AVIARY — one enclosure, many birds.
Flagship
CHIRP
The Sound System — a two-deck DJ instrument in your browser
Two decks, eleven effects each, a 3-band EQ with kill switches, beat-matching, scratch platters, record-to-WAV. No installs, no account — open a page and play.
Open the decks →
Modules — the flock inside
Music
ROOKERY
the listening colony
The flock's listening room, with a set of custom visualizers — analog machines, avionics, sorcery & esotericism.
Enter →
The gallery wing
Visual arts
Worlds and scenes, built in the browser.
Art
MOLT
the world engine
A photo/video world engine — imagery shed and regrown into navigable scenes.
Enter →
Art
PIXELSCAPES
coarse-grain scenes
Scapes built pixel by pixel — small worlds, rendered coarse.
View →
Photo
PHOTOGRAPHY
field work, off-screen
Landscapes, temples, and birds — shot in the field, live on Instagram.
@birdboimedia →
Full galleries in the darkroom — coming soon
The engine room
Back end
Tools that run the fleet — no stage, all rigging.
Tool
TAXONOMY FIXER
the Spotify library tool
Tidies a Spotify library's taxonomy — retagged, refiled, untangled.
No public build — runs backstage
Tool
NEST
the file manager
Every file in its place — the flock's filing system.
No public build — runs backstage
Engine
LINES
MICRORAPTOR · the finance engine
A finance engine for trend research, trade simulation, backtesting, and valuation models.
Open →