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title: "What I'm Doing Now"
description: "What I am currently focused on, building, researching, and architecting right now."
lastUpdated: "August 2026"
canonicalUrl: "https://akshaykgupta.me/now/"
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# What I'm Doing Now

> What I am currently focused on, building, researching, and architecting right now.
> Last updated: August 2026 • [What is a /now page?](https://nownownow.com/about)

### GenAI, MCP Architecture & AI Governance

- Architecting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tool calling protocols, and abstract UI schema integration patterns for agentic LLM workflows.
- Establishing enterprise AI Governance frameworks, risk controls, and deterministic validation guardrails for GenAI adoption in regulated financial environments.
- Designing secure sandboxing and boundary isolation for autonomous developer tools and enterprise AI agents.

### Current Projects & Active Development

- [Karvics](https://karvics.com) ([karvics.com](https://karvics.com)) — Expanding the zero-knowledge, client-side developer and cryptography suite with new offline-first browser utilities (AES-256-GCM, Web Crypto, PDF manipulation).
- [TwinPixCleaner](https://github.com/AkshayKrGupta/TwinPixCleaner) (macOS · [GitHub](https://github.com/AkshayKrGupta/TwinPixCleaner)) — Maintaining and enhancing the open-source photo deduplication utility using native Apple Vision Framework visual similarity and SHA-256 hashing.
- [NanoPress](https://github.com/AkshayKrGupta/NanoPress) (macOS · [GitHub](https://github.com/AkshayKrGupta/NanoPress)) — Optimizing the multi-threaded local batch compression engine using native Swift concurrency (async/await, Actors) and PDFKit.

### Technical Writing & Articles

- Authoring deep dives on enterprise system architecture, distributed consensus, and "the parts nobody puts in the architecture diagram".
- Sharing architectural blueprints and lessons learned from building large-scale systems in Global FinTech at [/blog/](/blog/).
- Writing on AI integration patterns and developer tooling scalability.

### Systems Research & Reading

- Enterprise Integration Patterns & Event-Driven Governance in Regulated Environments.
- Fault-tolerant consensus state machines (Raft / Paxos) and multi-region replication architectures.
- Zero-trust security models for containerized microservices and Kubernetes infrastructure.

### Available For

- Collaborations on interesting open-source projects.
- Engineering & Architecture Mentoring.
- Enterprise Architecture & GenAI Consulting.