Snehal Patel

Snehal Patel

I love to build GenAI systems that ship at scale. From fine-tuning SLMs/LLMs, scaling semantic search, to training custom NN models that classify 500K+ categories.

Recent Posts

13 min read
Jun 3, 2026

Running Ideogram 4 Locally: Quantized Inference and Structured JSON Captions

The thing that finally got me to sit down with Ideogram 4 was the text rendering. Most image models treat text in a scene as decorative blur: you...

6 min read
Jun 1, 2026

Simple Things Scaled Up

10 min read
May 31, 2026

X-Token: Distilling Knowledge Across Tokenizers That Don't Speak the Same Language