The Dynamic Plant Cell
The cell in the textbook is a cartoon; the real one never stops moving. Built for undergraduate plant-biology students and their instructors.
My ongoing explorations
Rook
Rook is a learning app that uses two-sentence flashcards. Unlike typical swipe-card apps where swiping left discards a card, swiping left in Rook asks for a simpler explanation. The app uses AI to generate these cards and track its own usage costs, and it is fully accessible with VoiceOver.
Ontario Open Data MCP
The Ontario government provides publicly-accessible data about everything from hunting season statistics, to population and transit surveys. This MCP server queries over multiple portals, with different APIs and formats to make the data discoverable and locally queryable using standard SQL. Available on PyPI and the MCP registry.
Collect
Collect is a Mac app designed for scientists to turn observations into a book. It acts as a digital scrapbook where each page is a folder containing media and a page.json file. The app can export your work as a website or an EPUB3 with embedded video, and it automatically transcribes Voice Memos.
CoverDrop
If you sideload a book to a Kindle, it might only show a grey tile instead of a pretty cover. CoverDrop allows you to customize the cover. The app writes the cover directly into the file, leaving the rest of the book exactly as it was. Free and entirely private.
Artful
This app features four offline games based on famous paintings for Mac and iPhone. In "Spot the Items," it uses on-device intelligence to hide objects within the art. The app is designed with a clean, shared code base and simple, standard web technologies.
Reel
Reel is a simple video editor designed for researchers to trim, crop, and annotate microscopy and lab recordings. It works entirely on your device without altering your original files until you export.
Clime
Clime is a private app that turns photos of your plants into pencil sketches and arranges them on a 3D shelf. It works entirely in your browser without requiring an account or server.
Launcher
This is a simple, foolproof home screen designed for elderly users. It features large buttons, a big clock, and built-in radio and YouTube. It is easy for relatives to set up, supports ten languages, and includes accessibility options like adjustable text and a dyslexia-friendly font.
Other tools
Diagrammatic Dialogues
This tool connects to a local directory and uses AI to describe and explain using SVG diagrams.
sketcher
I think by drawing. Sketcher is an offline drawing tool that lets AI review and edit your diagrams directly using native, editable elements rather than just sending back a static image. It supports four different AI engines, including local options, and uses customizable prompts to guide the feedback.
Blender Treemap
To make Blender's 20,000 files easier to understand, the code is first broken into smaller pieces. These pieces are then organized into a visual map with 61 categories based on ModernBERT embedding distances then summarized with llama3.3 and colored by what each file does. Uses a specific data format (bf16) to balance speed and accuracy during the process.
energy-usage
This tool analyses your utility's Green Button XML data directly in your browser. It breaks down your energy usage, costs, and pricing, while keeping electricity and gas measurements separate and clearly flagging any partial billing periods.
Genogram builder
The Genogram builder is a simple, offline tool. It allows users to easily draw and edit family trees using standard symbols on a zoomable canvas, without the complexity of general diagram software.
Product Comparison
This tool helps you compare products by pasting their URLs. It uses AI to extract the facts from each page and generate a clean comparison, avoiding the fluff and potential hallucinations of standard summaries. A companion browser extension allows it to bypass bot-walls by reading pages directly from your tabs.
Split-by data explorer
Split-by Data Explorer is a simple tool that lets you drop in a CSV or JSON file and instantly group your data by specific columns (like type or country). It automatically suggests the best columns to split by and works entirely in your browser without any setup.
Experience
2026 —Founder, Galt Software, Cambridge, Ontario.
2025 — 2026
Staff Software Engineer, The Catalog, Shopify. Product knowledge
graph; LLM pipelines at millions of inferences; fine-tuning, judges,
continuous evaluation.
2022 — 2025
Staff Software Engineer, People Analytics, Shopify. Systems that
touch people data across the company; survey text analysis with GPT-4;
compensation and headcount models.
2019 — 2022
Senior Data Engineer, People Analytics, Shopify. The Talent data
platform and its move to BigQuery; survey tooling; hierarchy-scoped
reporting.
2015 — 2019
Data Engineer, Shopify Plus; Senior Data Engineer, Data Apps. Spark
and Kafka pipelines; the Data Portal.
2008 — 2015
BlackBerry, Quality. Full-text search over two million documents;
text mining; Voice of the Customer analytics for executives.
2006 — 2010
BAComp, Applied Computing, University of Guelph-Humber.
Full detail on the resume.
Off the screen
Travels
Iceland, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Greece, Guatemala,
Peru, Ireland, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, and more.
Family
My dad, Jaideep Mathur, is a plant cell biologist and a painter, and my mom, Neeta Mathur, is an exceptional chef with a lifetime of experience in gastronomic experiments. My wife, Maria, is a prolific reader, adventurer and one of the most conscientious humans I know. Moose, my dog. No photo; she doesn't sit still.
Things I keep coming back to
Split-flap displays. Whiteboards. The Whole Earth Catalog and the early MacWorlds, which showed what kinds of products were even possible. Fawlty Towers, Taskmaster, Blackadder, and The IT Crowd. And the label I wrote for the watering can: Apparatus for initiating a Controlled Rain Event for the Maintenance of Living Things. Instructions: Please distribute evenly, check moistness with knuckle.
Last updated 19 October 2026. © Anshudeep Mathur.