# Virohana > Sovereign, humanity-first AI. We build AI systems that work for your life — not for the platforms watching it. Founder · Akshay Shetty # The architect behind the sovereign systems. I'm Akshay — I design and build the AI systems Virohana stands for: agentic automation, autonomous self-healing infrastructure, and durable memory, all running on hardware the owner controls. This page is for people deciding whether to work with me. [Download résumé (PDF)](https://www.virohanalife.com/Akshay-Shetty-AI-Architect-Resume.pdf) Query my work with your AI → Who I am ![Akshay Shetty, founder of Virohanalife OÜ](https://www.virohanalife.com/akshay-portrait.jpg) I come from humble beginnings, and I've been taking things apart and putting them back together since I was a kid. That turned into an engineering degree and a real love for computers — the first choice in my life that felt exactly right. My early career taught me how the internet is actually built underneath: the infrastructure, the networks, how large organisations and teams truly work. Then I built my own startup — health and fitness wired into technology. It failed, hard. But it taught me more about systems, teams, and customers than any win would have, and it carried me to Germany, deeper into startups, ERP and accounting systems, and the realisation that I learn by building, not by sitting in a classroom. I'd been watching the GPT trend since 2019 — a developer's curiosity, OpenAI as the pioneer, then the researchers who left it to start Anthropic. When large language models went commercial in 2022, I had no doubt what I was looking at. This wasn't a chatbot; it was the biggest shift in how humans use tools in a generation, and the road to real automation was obvious. But I saw the trap in the same moment: the compute and the capital required were so vast that only a handful of giant companies — and governments — would ever own it. The question stopped being *what can I build with this* and became *who will own it, and what happens to everyone else's data, attention, and freedom.* Since 2022 I've built project after project with one line I won't cross: sovereignty, privacy, and owning what you make. I've lost — repeatedly — to competitors who crossed it, because the whole economy rewards attention and extraction and I was building the opposite. I keep the line anyway. Tools should work for the upliftment of people, not against them; your data, your privacy, your sovereignty are human dignity, not something to be sold to a corporation or a government. Choosing this makes money and clients far harder to come by, and I pay that cost on purpose. That's the part I wouldn't trade for anything — and it's why this is mine to do. And I don't just argue for this — I live on it. The systems that run my own work sit on hardware I own, under my own keys, answering to me and no platform. Virohana is a sovereign-AI company in Tallinn, and I'm the founder and architect behind its systems. The throughline of our work is making frontier-grade AI capability something you can *own* — systems that run locally, hold their own memory, recover themselves, and never quietly hand your data to someone else's cloud. In practice that means an AI workforce wired into real software: agents that build, test, and ship under supervision; a memory layer that makes those agents improve across sessions instead of forgetting; and an autonomous engine that watches the whole thing, heals what breaks, and gates anything consequential behind a human. Most of the work is deterministic code and small local models — I reserve frontier reasoning for the parts that genuinely need it, which keeps it fast and cheap. I care about intellectual honesty over optimism, verifying ground truth before trusting it, and doing a thing once and then making the machine do it forever. If that resonates, the fastest way to interrogate my work is to point your own AI at it — below. At a glance - RoleFounder & AI Architect - CompanyVirohanalife OÜ - BasedTallinn, Estonia - FocusSovereign & local-first AI; agents, memory, autonomous infra - Open toAI architect / engineer roles & select consulting - Résumé[PDF →](https://www.virohanalife.com/Akshay-Shetty-AI-Architect-Resume.pdf) - LinkedIn[in/ak5hay5hetty →](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ak5hay5hetty/) An AI-native portfolio ## Connect your AI, ask it anything. My portfolio isn't a static page — it's a live, read-only server your own AI assistant can connect to and query. Ask about specific projects, my engineering judgment, how I'd fit a role, or have it pull my résumé. It's the same kind of sovereign, isolated system I build for clients, pointed at myself. 1. In **Claude** (or any MCP-capable assistant), open **Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector**. 2. Paste the **server URL** below and connect. 3. When asked, paste the **access key** to authorize. Then just talk to your assistant — “tell me about Akshay's work,” “is he a fit for a staff AI engineer role?”, “show me his résumé.” Two tiers of access: a **standard** key for recruiters and quick evaluation (below), and a **technical** key for engineering buyers who want the deep dive — issued on request. Read-only and isolated by design. Works with Claude, ChatGPT (Connectors), and IDE clients like Cursor / VS Code via `npx mcp-remote https://hire.virohanalife.com/mcp`. Standard access · recruiters Server URL `https://hire.virohanalife.com/mcp` Access key (shared, read-only) `0d8ee5ce785b.hlvXU1Zm2ooBviD4HjdkBpqSXLnkMJmF` No account needed. Ask about projects, fit, and perspectives, or pull the [résumé →](https://www.virohanalife.com/Akshay-Shetty-AI-Architect-Resume.pdf) Technical access · engineering buyers A separate, technical-scoped key unlocks the deep tier: detailed case studies of the hard problems I've solved, how I handle secrets and security, and architecture deep-dives — provisioning, observability, failure recovery, and more. Issued per requester, and deliberately not published. The OAuth + scoped-key handshake you'd connect through is itself part of what's being evaluated — requesting one takes about thirty seconds. [Request a scoped token](https://www.virohanalife.com/book.html) [Email for a key →](mailto:support@virohanalife.com?subject=Technical%20MCP%20access) Security, by default ## Secrets you can't leak, keys you can't extract. How I treat secrets and access on every system I build — and on the very server you can connect to above. Methodology, not topology: the specifics of any production system stay private by design. #### Encrypted at rest (SOPS) Secrets live as ciphertext, encrypted with SOPS (age / PGP). What's on disk or in a repo is never plaintext; decryption happens only in memory, at the moment of use. #### Hardware-backed keys High-value private keys are held in Apple's Secure Enclave and passkeys — generated in, and never leaving, the secure element. No extractable copy on disk to steal. #### Scoped, short-lived tokens Access is granted as narrow, expiring tokens, not standing credentials — the same two-tier scoped model behind the portfolio server above. Secrets never touch logs or build output. #### Isolated by design Powerful surfaces are never bridged to the open internet; public services run egress-isolated in hardened containers. The proof is upstream — that connector can't reach anything but a curated file. Rotation, and anything touching secrets, access, or money, is a human-gated step — never autonomous. The machine proposes; the human disposes. What I bring ## Capability, kept sovereign. #### Agentic systems Multi-agent workforces that build, test, review and ship under supervision — with cost-tiered routing so deterministic code and local models do the bulk, and frontier models only the irreducible reasoning. #### Memory & retrieval Durable, bi-temporal memory with semantic + graph retrieval, so agents carry context across sessions and improve instead of forgetting. #### Autonomous infrastructure Self-observing, self-healing systems: snapshot-and-revert, executable health checks, and auto-recovery — with consequential actions gated behind a human. #### Sovereign deployment Local-first, isolated, OAuth-secured services on hardware the owner controls. No metered clouds in the loop; the operator holds every key. [Book a consultation](https://www.virohanalife.com/book.html) [Connect on LinkedIn →](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ak5hay5hetty/)