Viren Joopelli in front of the Golden Gate Bridge

Viren Joopelli

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I'm a product-first builder based in New York City. I previously worked on antifraud systems at Indeed and led partnerships at Manifold Labs, before transitioning to an independent consulting practice working with companies like Neynar and Lattice on product and growth and contributing to protocol ecosystems like Nouns, Farcaster, and Optimism.

Selected Projects

Qwen Image Neuron Dials

Independent automated research to identify neurons in Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo that influence visual style or content of outputs in a certain direction.

Live Classroom

A realtime educational video created on demand for any topic. Built using Fal's H3 Max model for continuous realtime video generation and GPT 5.6 Sol for lesson planning and video prompt generation. Classroom scene built with ThreeJS.

Jo

A pocket wearable for orchestrating cloud agents via voice, built with ESP32 watch hardware and custom firmware, on top of GPT-Live for realtime voice conversation and Nous Hermes for agent orchestration.

Realtime Whiteboard

A realtime whiteboard tutorial created on demand for any topic. Built with GPT-Live on top of tldraw canvas editor, and GPT 6 Astra for visual thinking and lesson design.

FAIntasy Football

A custom harness for a live, season-long simulation of a fantasy football league where each team is an agent with a different model. Agents have access to league-specific tool calls along with streamed NFL player/game data and web search.

Isometric NYC Map

A isometric pixel art map of New York City with street level accuracy, built entirely in code.

Token City

A city on your desktop, animated by your agents.