I’m Prashant — a Senior Developer (contract) at NIC Punjab, working on iHRMS Punjab. My current focus is the Medical Reimbursement module, alongside cross-module modernization work across the iHRMS suite.
Outside work: HAM radio, NodeMCU electronics, and AI/ML self-study. I write here so future-me can find what past-me figured out.
Currently
- Working on
- iHRMS — splitting the Medical Reimbursement approval pipeline into idempotent state transitions so retries don’t re-fire downstream events. (week 3 of 5)
- Reading
- Karpathy’s makemore series, plus Designing Data-Intensive Applications — second pass, this time with a notebook beside me.
- Building
- A bench experiment running DeepSeek-OCR locally on an RTX 5060 Ti against multilingual hospital bills.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-07 14:22 IST
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2025 – 26
Move attachment storage off the database. Reduce DB footprint, decouple file lifecycle from row lifecycle, keep the existing UI contract.
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2024 – 26
Reporting, workflow, and approval-flow features across the module’s multi-level review pipeline.
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2025 – 26
A home-lab rig running DeepSeek-OCR and a few small LLMs against multilingual documents (English, Hindi, Punjabi). Notes published as I go.