I am an engineering leader, AI transformation consultant, and scientific visualization builder based in Bangalore. I have 28+ years of software engineering and engineering leadership experience across telecom, flash storage, and electric vehicles. I now work with engineering teams adopting AI coding agents in real codebases, with a focus on delivery speed, productivity, quality, and responsible trust calibration.
Outside consulting, I build interactive astronomy visualizations, maintain small open-source tools for AI-assisted software development, give public talks on space and astronomy, and occasionally revisit old astrophotography data with modern processing pipelines.
Small, focused open-source tools for engineers using AI coding agents.
Browse and export AI coding assistant conversation history across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI. Reaches local, WSL, Windows, and SSH homes; produces listings, markdown exports, and usage metrics.
Preflight a repository before AI-assisted refactors. Find duplicate-code candidates, repeated documentation sections, and docs information-architecture overlap so an agent can target real consolidation work.
Interactive, scientifically accurate space and astronomy visualization tools built with real ephemeris data from NASA's JPL Horizons platform.
The main portal is at sankara.net/astro. Most project source is available on GitHub under the MIT license.
- Science outreach page
- Talk slides
- Bangalore Astronomy Society lecture
- Asianet News
- The Wire article
- ISRO MoM post
Real-time 3D visualization of NASA's Artemis II lunar flyby. Tracks flyby events, eclipse, closest approach, and predicted Earthrise/Earthset views from the crew's perspective.
Unified visualization platform for 40+ international lunar missions. Includes 2D and 3D rendering, multiple reference frames, engine burns, timeline scrubbing, and co-orbital flight modes.
Satellite orbit visualization and conjunction analysis. Find close approaches between any two satellites with 100ms precision and automatic TLE fetching from Celestrak.
Interactive planetary alignment analyzer. Find the best dates to see multiple planets at once and explore the sky with a 3D solar system, alignment timeline, and sky charts.
Interactive 3D educational tool for orbital mechanics through Chandrayaan-3's mission design. Modes: Explore, Plan, and Game. Built with Three.js and astronomy-engine.
- Chandrayaan-3 | legacy animation | legacy source | talk | slides
- Chandrayaan-2 | legacy animation | legacy source
- Mars Orbiter Mission | source
- New Horizons Pluto flyby
I am revisiting selected deep-sky data in PixInsight with a nearly automated pipeline. The notes, scripts, and project logs are public in kvsankar/pixinsight, with a separate PixInsight project gallery.