Open-source contributor building tech for good. I make AI and web tools for the people mainstream tech tends to skip — conservationists, non-profits, small publishers, and public-interest teams.
Based in Chennai, India. Founder of Code 4 Cause, which helps non-profits adopt the tech tools they can't otherwise afford, and Lvl1 Accelerator, a startup accelerator.
birdecho — Bird-station companion app
Your backyard bird station, on your phone. A companion app for BirdNET-Pi, BirdNET-Go, and BirdWeather stations.
For citizen scientists, birders, and conservation programs running BirdNET-family stations.
speciesnet-studio — Wildlife camera-trap review
Self-hosted review UI for SpeciesNet wildlife classifier predictions.
For conservation teams and researchers who need to triage thousands of camera-trap detections without sending data to the cloud.
cctvql — Natural-language queries for surveillance footage
Ask your cameras questions instead of scrubbing hours of footage. Works with Frigate and ONVIF systems.
Useful for conservation groups reviewing camera-trap footage, schools and small towns monitoring public spaces, and homelabbers who want a smarter Frigate dashboard.
openmem — Local-first AI memory
A private, searchable memory layer for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Your conversations stay on your machine.
For journalists, lawyers, clinicians, and anyone whose AI history shouldn't live in someone else's cloud.
ai-auto-news-poster — AI-assisted publishing for small outlets
WordPress plugin that drafts blog posts from RSS feeds using OpenAI or Anthropic APIs.
For local news sites and niche publications that can't staff full-time editors.
odoopilot — AI messaging bridge for Odoo Community
Let your team query and act on Odoo data from Telegram — in plain language, without opening a browser.
For small teams and non-profits running Odoo Community who want AI-assisted access to business data without hiring dedicated IT staff.
- Shipping case studies for birdecho and speciesnet-studio with conservation programs already running BirdNET and SpeciesNet.
- Polishing cctvql v1 — clean install story, documentation, and a short demo video.
- Growing odoopilot coverage — more Odoo modules and richer guided-write flows.
- Each pinned repo has a
good first issuelabel for new contributors — PRs very welcome.
If these tools are useful to you or the people you serve, you can sponsor the work on GitHub. Sponsorships keep the projects free and open for the conservation programs, non-profits, small teams, and independent users who need them most.
- GitHub Sponsors — https://github.com/sponsors/arunrajiah
- LinkedIn — https://linkedin.com/in/arunrajiah
- X / Twitter — https://x.com/arunrajiah
- Email — arunrajiah@gmail.com