AshankSundaram
I’m Ashank Sundaram. I specialise in rapid prototyping, turning a “what if” into something you can actually use.
I run Flarial Consulting, co-founded Flarial, and currently work on Choowi.
What I’m working on
Three projects taking up most of my time.
Flarial Consulting
My consulting practice for bespoke software and larger engineering projects, from the first prototype through to implementation.
Bespoke projects · Systems engineering
Flarial
The Minecraft Bedrock client I co-founded. I work on the backend and help shape the product and its community.
Minecraft Bedrock · Client & backend
Choowi
An AI video studio that turns photos, footage and floorplans into films. I’m building it at Beck Lifestyle Group.
AI video · Product developmentOutside of work
I sing, play the kanjira, and spend time with my community. A few clips from that side of my life, plus a reel from an earlier project.
Singing
A quieter moment
Kanjira
South Indian percussion
Community
Getting involved
An earlier project
A reel for my former platform
Recent writing
Problems I’ve worked through, written down.
Gemma 4 Threw Out the Multimodal Encoders
Google calls Gemma 4 12B 'encoder-free multimodal.' There's a real architectural bet under the marketing. It's just narrower than the name suggests, and most of it shipped in 2023.
Everything I got wrong building a voice agent that worked
A month spent making a voice agent reliable, and the punchline is that the conversation was never the hard part. The hard part was the one decision I should never have let a language model make.
Prediction markets are an order-book problem now
Event contracts have outgrown the 'is this gambling?' debate. The actual question is what the order book did in the thirty minutes before a poll went public.
Have a project in mind?
For bespoke software and larger projects, get in touch through Flarial Consulting.