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Education / 2019–2022

Asian Classics Institute

A multilingual course and CRM platform built alongside years of classical Buddhist study and teaching.

A production education system spanning course discovery, enrollment, student progress, examinations, and teacher communication.

Asian Classics Institute course catalog with filters and course cards
The live catalog combines discovery, registration, and course commerce.
Role
Full-stack engineer and meditation teacher
Timeframe
2019–2022
System
Education
  • education platform
  • CRM
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • multilingual
  • course operations

The system in context.

Nikita built the Asian Classics Institute course platform and CRM while completing a three-year program in classical Buddhist philosophy. The product supported the operational path from a public course catalog to enrollment, progress tracking, exams, and teacher-student messaging.

The work also created a bridge between education infrastructure and later AI research. Texts annotated during this period became part of the source-material foundation for the Dharma AI case study.

What shipped

  • Built the public course catalog and the operational CRM behind it.
  • Supported enrollment, student progress, examination scheduling, and teacher communication.
  • Delivered a multilingual study surface for a distributed learning community.
  • Connected annotated classical material to later citation-grounded AI work.

The numbers, with their meaning intact.

interface languages
12

The preserved portfolio describes the system as a 12-language study platform.

students taught
2.5K+

Founder-reported teaching reach across in-person and online formats during the ACI period.

build and study period
2019–22

The case-study period covers both platform delivery and formal study at ACI.

From signal to shipped system.

  1. Make a deep curriculum legible

    Course structure, filters, detail pages, and multilingual presentation made a large body of study material navigable.

  2. Join learning to the CRM

    Enrollment, progress, exams, and messaging were treated as one continuous student journey.

  3. Carry knowledge forward

    Annotated source material from the education work later informed Dharma AI's retrieval-grounded teaching system.