Staff Software Engineer · Cisco Meraki · San Francisco Bay Area

Avinash Gosavi

15+ years building production systems at enterprise scale — I care most about distributed systems, API design, and reliability, and enjoy the unglamorous work that makes platforms feel solid: data modeling, integration paths, performance, and being useful when things break. These days that means Rails, React, Kafka, and Kubernetes by day; off hours I build privacy-first AI tools and write about the craft of software engineering.

Recently on the site

  • Writing VaultMem Parts 1 and 3 and the "shouldn't read your diary" post now link the plain-language TL;DR of the Memory as Asset paper they build on. →
  • Writing The Uses page's Ollama entry now links the AI History Blog Generator post, which uses the same qwen2.5:14b model to write its posts. →
  • Writing The changelog intro now links the post on how this site is set up with Jekyll and GitHub Pages. →

Now

Mentoring
Mentoring hackers at Cal Hacks 13.0 in San Francisco, Oct 23–25.
Judging
Judging student projects at HackUMass XIV (UMass Amherst) on Nov 15.
Going to
OSA Con 2026, the open-source analytics & AI conference in San Francisco, on Nov 2.
Reading
Papers on memory for AI agents — and writing them up in plain language as a Paper TL;DR series, starting with the six that shaped my projects.

Hobby Projects

Memory & privacy for AI

VaultMem

Encrypted memory for AI agents

A Python memory library where the platform running the agent cryptographically cannot read what users store. Client-side encryption, encrypted semantic search, PII sanitization. Published on PyPI with a preprint on Zenodo.

  • Python
  • Cryptography
  • AI Agents

Agents & voice

Rena

Voice-first AI health companion

Built for the Gemini Live Agent Challenge 2026 — a health companion you talk to instead of tapping through logging screens. Gemini Live, Veo 2, and Google ADK.

  • Gemini Live
  • Google ADK
  • Voice AI

Memory & privacy for AI

Attractor

Brain-inspired memory engine

A memory engine modeled on Hopfield-style attractor dynamics — retrieval by partial cues and context rather than keys or nearest-neighbour distance.

  • Python
  • Hopfield Networks
  • Memory

Memory & privacy for AI

daylog

Private voice diary

A voice diary with semantic search where entries and the search index are encrypted at rest, and no content leaves the device to answer a query.

  • Encryption
  • Semantic Search
  • Local-first

Experience

  • Cisco Meraki Staff Software Engineer
    2021 – Present
  • Handshake Software Engineer II
    2020 – 2021
  • CoStar Group Software Engineer II
    2018 – 2020
  • Dominion Enterprises — ForRent Media Solutions Intern → Senior Software Engineer
    2015 – 2018
  • Old Dominion University Teaching & Research Assistant
    2014 – 2015
  • Freewave Tech Solutions Software Developer
    2013 – 2014
  • Indiavidual (via Neosoft Technologies) Ruby on Rails Developer
    2013
  • Allerin Tech Ruby on Rails Developer
    2011 – 2013

Things I'm curious about

How AI systems should remember — and who gets to read those memories. Brain-inspired retrieval. Running useful models on hardware I own. Keeping big APIs fast. I write up the papers behind my projects in plain language in the Paper TL;DR section — start with six papers that shaped how I think about AI memory. There's also a papershelf and a list of conference talks worth watching.

Recent Writing

  • An Agent Memory Glossary: Terms in Plain Language
    5 min read

    The vocabulary around AI agent memory borrows from neuroscience, databases, search and cryptography all at once, which makes it easy to talk past each other....

  • Doing the Right Thing, Fast
    2 min read

    We recently deprecated the initial version of Cisco Catalyst Cloud Monitoring. That means the code that drove it — onboarding flows, device-specific paths, i...

  • How daylog Keeps Your Diary Private (Even from Itself)
    6 min read

    daylog is a voice diary. You open it, tap the mic, say what’s on your mind, and it saves. You can search your entries semantically — type “frustrated” and it...