# Arach Tchoupani

> Engineer, founder, builder. 15 years shipping product across 4 venture-backed companies. Currently building voice-first tools and exploring what happens when AI gives one person the leverage of twenty.

**Location:** San Francisco / Montreal

| Years | Ventures | Exit | Raised |
|-------|----------|------|--------|
| 15+ | 4 | 1 | $15M |

## Career

- Co-founded Breathe Life — InsurTech, acquired by Zinnia (2022)
- Engineering Manager at Meta — Creators, the blue app
- CTO at Primary.com — employee #2, built eng from zero
- 4x CTO across venture-backed companies in NY and Montreal

## Agents

- [Author Portrait](https://arach.io/agents/author-portrait) — Parametric braille & ASCII portrait generator. Dithering, charset presets, copy-to-clipboard.

## API

Base URL: `https://arach.io/api/v1`

Auth: Bearer token via Authorization header

| Method | Path | Auth | Description |
|--------|------|------|-------------|
| GET | `/ping` | none | Health check |
| POST | `/message` | agent | Send a message |
| GET | `/messages` | admin | List messages |
| GET | `/replies` | agent | Poll for replies |
| POST | `/reply` | admin | Send a reply to an agent |

CLI: [cli/arach.ts](https://github.com/arach/arach.io/tree/main/cli)

## Projects

### [Talkie](https://usetalkie.com)

Native voice-to-action. Push-to-talk, on-device Whisper, multi-provider LLM routing.

`Swift · SwiftUI · local Whisper · Claude/OpenAI/Groq`

### [HUD](https://hud.arach.dev)

Chrome-style UI components for canvas apps. Pan/zoom, panels, command palette, terminal drawer.

`React · TypeScript · canvas rendering · component library`

### [Devmux](https://devmux.arach.dev)

Claude Code + dev server in tmux. Auto-detects stack, session persistence, menu bar companion.

`Shell · tmux · Bun · macOS menu bar`

### **SpeakEasy**

Unified TTS library. ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, system voices — one CLI.

`TypeScript · Node.js · multi-provider abstraction`

### **Fabric**

Agentic compute fabric. Isolated sandboxes for AI agents with snapshots and state persistence.

`Kubernetes · Terraform · container orchestration`

*15+ projects at [arach.dev](https://arach.dev)*

## Stack

| Area | Technologies |
|------|-------------|
| languages | TypeScript, Swift, Go, Rust, Python |
| frontend | React, Next.js, Astro, TailwindCSS, SwiftUI |
| backend | Node.js, Bun, Hono, PostgreSQL, Redis |
| native | Swift, Tauri v2, WebRTC, Whisper |
| ai/ml | Claude, OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, ElevenLabs, RLHF |
| infra | Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Vercel |

## Accounts

- **GitHub**: [@arach](https://github.com/arach)
- **X / Twitter**: [@arach](https://twitter.com/arach)
- **LinkedIn**: [in/arach](https://linkedin.com/in/arach)
- **Instagram**: [@arach](https://instagram.com/arach)
- **Email**: [arach@tchoupani.com](mailto:arach@tchoupani.com)

## Sites

- [arach.io](https://arach.io) — Blog, resume, writing
- [arach.dev](https://arach.dev) — Portfolio, specs, all projects
- [usetalkie.com](https://usetalkie.com) — Talkie app
- [hud.arach.dev](https://hud.arach.dev) — HUD components
- [devmux.arach.dev](https://devmux.arach.dev) — Devmux
- [tchoupani.com](https://tchoupani.com) — Personal