Fault-tolerant mobile data collection for research that cannot afford bad numbers.

• Complex XLSForm architecture with nested repeats
• Multi-language instruments (EN, HI, SW, FR, AR)
• Automated daily quality audits and anomaly detection
• Protected delivery into clean research lakes

SurveyCTO ODK JavaRosa PostgreSQL Python ETL

High-availability applications engineered for the tenth year, not the launch day.

• Astro, Next.js and React with sub-second delivery
• Custom PHP/WordPress without page-builder bloat
• REST and GraphQL APIs, schema design, integrations
• Hardened cloud infrastructure, zero-downtime deploys

Astro React Node.js PHP AWS Docker

Agentic systems anchored to your documents, with the guardrails to prove it.

• Hybrid retrieval (embeddings + BM25) with citation checks
• Tool-calling agents against real APIs and databases
• Evaluation suites, cost controls, no vendor lock-in
• Structured extraction from PDFs into verified JSON

RAG Agents Guardrails Claude · GPT · Gemini

_{Founder & Principal Architect · since 2005}

The engineering studio behind the deployments on this page: field-data systems, web platforms and AI for research organisations and businesses worldwide.

cybermitra.com →

_{Founder & CEO · since 2024}

AI assistants and custom RAG chatbots for small businesses and teams: one knowledge base, answers that cite their sources, any model with no lock-in.

askburg.com →

_{Founder · since 2026}

A toolkit for the real cost of UPI payments: fee calculator, QR tools, an AI bill reader and the Ask Pikoo chat assistant.

upifree.com →

_{Python CLI suite on Sarvam AI: speech-to-text with diarization, document intelligence, image analysis, SEO cataloguing.}

Python Indic AI

_{AI photo editor: retouch, filter and adjust images with plain-text prompts.}

TypeScript GenAI

_{One-click Wan2GP video-generation install for RTX 50-series GPUs.}

CUDA Video AI

_{Image-pair voting and EVM-style ballot plugins for SurveyCTO Collect, plus an XLSForm → printable codebook tool.}

JavaScript SurveyCTO

_{Client-side image safety checks plus reverse search for matching and duplicate images.}

TypeScript Privacy-first

_{The Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter, rebuilt in the browser. Pure nostalgia, no disks harmed.}

JavaScript Just for fun

_{London, UK · 2010 · current platform 2021}

Premier accredited executive training platform with custom booking and automated enrolment. Continuous 99.9% uptime since 2021, sub-second pages under real traffic.

WordPress PHP Stripe · case study →

_{International research consortia · 12+ countries}

Enterprise SurveyCTO/ODK architecture behind 600+ complex instruments. 1.5M+ high-integrity submissions across health, agriculture and socio-economic research.

SurveyCTO ODK Python PostgreSQL · case study →

_{New Delhi & Lucknow · 2013 – present}

Corporate portal, secure research repository and field-operations infrastructure for roughly 400 studies covering ~20M surveyed respondents.

WordPress PHP AWS EC2/S3 · case study →

_{Open source · 28 own repositories}

SurveyCTO field plugins, XLSForm utilities, WordPress plugins, a Sarvam AI CLI suite, hardening scripts for Windows and Cloudflare, an AI photo editor — and one lovingly pointless Windows 98 defrag simulator.

Python TypeScript PowerShell · browse →

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