Subin's Storyboard
A personal archive of observations.
Stories, essays, technical explorations, football analysis, poems, and travel notes written in search of understanding: for the world, for other people, and occasionally for myself.
People, technology, places, ambition, memory, love, identity, and the strange ways they intersect.
Featured writing
Selected observations from the notebook.
Fiction, poetry, engineering, football, travel, and personal essays appear here as one archive. The thread is not subject matter. The thread is attention.
Story from Nepal
On my way to get the Pfizer vaccine. people were arranged like a deck of cards on the van. I sat on the leftover made up seat, by the side of the door that slid to and fro, behind the driver...
Read the observationBook Review of Tuesday with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie What this book made me think about life, love, death, family, growing older, and the people we forget to appreciate. The opening of Tuesdays with Morrie , where Mitch Al...
Others / Aug 27, 2026 / 12 min read
With or Without You
I never feared the silence. I feared getting used to hearing your voice every day, only to learn that one day I would have to live without it. I want you to disappear into your books. To for...
Life / Aug 25, 2026 / 2 min read
Book Review on White Nights
Some time ago, I was reading a book called White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The whole reason I wanted to read it was that my roommate had the book, and someone told me it would make a boy...
Others / Aug 25, 2026 / 4 min readRecent writing
Latest from the archive.
Book Review of Tuesday with Morrie
Notebook fragment / 12 min read
Aug 25, 2026With or Without You
Personal observation / 2 min read
Aug 25, 2026Book Review on White Nights
Notebook fragment / 4 min read
Jul 13, 2026The Smoker
/ 2 min read
May 29, 2026A Train Station
/ 42 min read
May 22, 2026The Mirror
/ 2 min read
May 19, 2026The White Dress
/ 3 min read
Index
Recurring lines of attention.
These are not separate departments. They are recurring ways of looking: at people, systems, places, games, memory, and desire.
Love & Letting Go
Poems, stories, and reflections on longing, missed chances, heartbreak, beauty, and release.
17 piecesLoneliness & Home
Writing about distance, friendship, misfitting, belonging, solitude, and the idea of home.
8 piecesSystems, Search & AI
Technical explorations of retrieval, software systems, AI, security, and how modern tools might work.
7 piecesFootball & Tactics
Football analysis through structure, risk, reward, formation battles, and tactical behavior.
17 piecesTravel & Place
Travel notes, place guides, trips, Louisiana, Florida, Nepal, and the memory of elsewhere.
22 piecesGuides & Practical Notes
Useful walkthroughs, exam prep, setup notes, mitigation writeups, and practical technical guides.
About the author
I write to notice what ordinary life keeps trying to say.
Selected work
Technical work, in context.
Software and research projects sit here as supporting context: another expression of the same curiosity that drives the writing.
Semantic Search Engine
A full-stack semantic PDF search and Q&A platform enabling contextual question answering from indexed PDF manuscripts.
Full Stack & AI DeveloperTextify – Digital Humanities Platform
Digital humanities platform that digitizes manuscripts in Old English, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit using Google Cloud Vision OCR and advanced computer vision to structure and analyze ancient documents.
Full Stack, AI & Web3 DeveloperInstaRelief
Parametric micro-insurance platform that detects NOAA weather alerts, pre-credits impacted users, and enables audited Solana payouts via Phantom. Demonstrates an automated disaster-relief workflow using Firebase, Cloud Functions, and a lightweight AI assistant.
Lead Full Stack & AI DeveloperFAQBot AI Chat Support Widget
A multi-tenant AI chatbot widget that handles customer FAQs with automatic analytics and content control.
Recognition
Nexus DevDays Award WinnerNexus DevDays 2026 / March 2026
MLH Best Use of SolanaHackNYU / November 2025
MMR Group Technology ScholarshipSoutheastern Louisiana University / 2026
Thomas F. Higginbotham ScholarshipSoutheastern Louisiana University / 2025–2026
ConnectMe: QR-Powered Digital Business CardsInternational Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) / 2024