# Software Engineering: Yash Ganar

HTML: https://yashganar.com/builder

I build things mostly to find out if I can. Some start as useful ideas, some as questions, and some as problems that seem small until I start writing the code. These are the ones that made it out.

## Projects

### LocalRAG

Personal knowledge assistant: ingest markdown, hybrid retrieve from Chroma, stream grounded Gemini answers with MongoDB session history.

- Status: completed · September 2026
- Docs: https://yashganar.com/projects/local-rag
- Docs Markdown: https://yashganar.com/projects/local-rag.md
- GitHub: https://github.com/yashterdayyyy/LocalRAG
- Stack: MongoDB, Chroma, Gemini, React

## Research

### Autonomous Intersection Management with RL

Developed autonomous intersection algorithms using PPO and A2C reinforcement learning. Evaluated on collision avoidance, speed, and travel time, published with ACM.

- Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3700838.3703668
- Stack: Python, PyTorch

## Certifications

- Python Basics · Scrimba
- JavaScript · Scrimba
- ES6 JavaScript · Scrimba
- Express JS · Scrimba
- SQL · Scrimba