About Misbah Khursheed
Misbah Khursheed is an 18-year-old builder and engineer from Lucknow, India. He is the founder and head of engineering at Sunbeam, a software studio that builds custom software and agentic AI infrastructure for businesses. He builds in public and shares his work, experiments, and engineering notes online.
Misbah builds in public: he shares progress on products, software systems, AI agents, hardware, language design, and the realities of building from Lucknow.
What Misbah is working on
- Pinout: An early open-source runtime for software and AI agents to interact with physical hardware through common, machine-readable capabilities, with safety-aware policies and an ESP32 reference path. Learn more
- AdBar: An India-first, opt-in desktop sponsorship concept where advertisers buy eligible menu-bar exposure and participants receive an explicit share of media revenue in INR. Learn more
Selected work
- firstDraft: A social collaboration and creator platform that Misbah co-founded and scaled to 10,000+ users and 1M+ requests. Project link
- Sunbeam: A software studio where Misbah leads architecture and end-to-end delivery for custom software and agentic AI infrastructure. Project link
- Billfast: A GST invoice suite for Indian freelancers. Project link
- Rey: A systems-level compiled programming language with a Rust interpreter and module system. Project link
- Infinicon: An open-source SDK for persistent memory, retrieval, and context management in agentic applications. Project link