Saurin Choksi

Hi, I'm Choksi.

I go by my last name. :)

Saurin Choksi
Photo by Jordan Ashleigh
When a writer says "I dunno, the line just feels... off," I add a 300ms silent audio file before the punchline. When a computer vision model can't figure out what it's looking at, I redesign the image labeling strategy and communicate the fix to both engineers and designers.

I'm the translator between "make it magical" and "ship it Tuesday."

The Writing Years

My background is in children's animation writing. I earned an Emmy nomination for Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (see episode), plus credits across Apple TV+, Netflix, Sesame Workshop, and more.

Why Technical Design? I enjoyed writing, but I wanted to use my whole self—the technical side I'd set aside and the creative instincts I'd nurtured. Machine learning and computer vision were enabling new forms of storytelling, and I wanted to be the one building them. Technical design was the path.

Now

At Kibeam Learning, I led technical implementation for 20+ interactive books using custom audio hardware, sensors, and computer vision. I work in Python, JavaScript, and whatever else the project needs to bridge the gap between creative vision and real-world hardware constraints.

Story
Narrative structure and child development from TV writing
Code
Python, JavaScript, ML pipelines, computer vision, audio processing
Communication
Requirements gathering, creative reviews, iteration loops, alignment

I wrote for kids before I had one. Now I have a 4-year-old daughter, and I build tools for the kinds of products I'd be proud to let her use—where the technology disappears, and the experience remains.