Prakhar Shukla, software engineer of applied AI systems
Software engineer. Applied AI systems.
I build AI systems that defend people: firewalls for hallucinations, honeypots for scammers, graphs for fraud rings. Shipped, measured, honest.
Trust is an engineering problem.
I build systems that earn it:
hallucination firewalls, scam honeypots,
deepfake detectors, fraud graph engines.
Every number here regenerates from code.
01 Selected work
Five systems that catch what slips past everyone else.
Sentinel
Cross-merchant fraud defense · 2026
Cross-merchant UPI fraud detection. An identity link graph catches recycled devices and VPAs between merchants, scores every event deterministically, and hands analysts evidence instead of a black box number.
Gatehouse
Autonomous fraud-defense agent · 2026
A household forwards any suspicious message to a team of AI agents that investigates it like a professional fraud analyst and escalates only genuine threats with court-grade evidence bundles.
SignalGate
Agentic research-integrity gate · 2026
Candidate quant trading signals investigated like fraud cases. Statistical probes run as sandboxed tools, verdicts come with numeric receipts, and spurious signals die before they waste a researcher's hour. Recommends, never trades.
TruthLayer
AWS AIdeas, Global Top 50 of 10,000+ · 2026
A serverless firewall that intercepts LLM hallucinations before users see them. Five deterministic signals, 95.33% precision on 300 adversarial cases, $1.50 a month at 50K verifications.
ScamShield
India AI Impact Buildathon, Top 2% of 40,000+ · 2026
Autonomous agents engage scammers with adaptive personas, extract UPI IDs and bank details with 98% accuracy, and feed a live intelligence dashboard over 13 REST APIs.
Also shipped
Open all projects →02 Research
Comprehensive Deepfake Detection: A Comparative Study on Image and Video Forgery
Advanced Deepfake Image Detection: A Robust Framework using InceptionV3 and Xception
03 Writing
04 Recognition
AWS AIdeas Global Top 50 Finalist
TruthLayer, picked from 10,000+ global submissions. Published by AWS Builder.
Proof ↗
Top 200 AI Teams in India
India AI Impact Buildathon, grand finale at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Top 2% of 40,000+ builders.
National Winner, SBI Youth Ideathon
Top 15 of 15,000+ teams at IIT Delhi. ₹20,000 for Truth Shield.
Proof ↗
National Innovation Finalist
BITS Pilani Beyond Profits Top 20 and Azim Premji Social Enterprise Challenge finalist.
1st Runner-Up, Hack Wack 2.0
2nd of 300+. ₹8,000 for real-time deepfake detection.
1st Runner-Up, HackAIthon
Azure Developer Community and Reskilll, applied AI track.
05 Journey
Started B.Tech in CSE, RTM Nagpur University.
First shipped project: the school website, maintained for a year.
Went deep on deepfakes. First detector, then first paper.
IIT Delhi win, IEEE paper, journal paper, internship at Anishree Technologies.
Graduated at CGPA 8.79. AWS Global Top 50. Top 200 in India at Bharat Mandapam.
06 Lab
Things built because they had to exist.
07 Contact
Build something
worth defending.
Open to full-time roles and hard problems in applied AI, trust and safety, and systems that ship.