Elad Sertshuk

Elad Sertshuk is an independent software developer who publishes open-source tools through GitHub, focusing on utilities that improve the day-to-day experience of working with modern computing workloads. The publisher's catalog currently includes mtop, a terminal-based system monitoring tool described as "htop for your local AI." The name references htop, the widely used interactive process viewer for Unix-like systems, and signals a similar philosophy applied to a newer domain: giving users a clear, real-time view of what is happening on their machine. mtop is aimed at developers, researchers, and enthusiasts who run artificial intelligence models locally, for example through popular local inference runtimes, and who need visibility into resource consumption while those models are active. Typical use cases include observing CPU, memory, and hardware utilization during model inference, understanding how concurrent AI processes behave, diagnosing slowdowns when running large language models or other machine learning workloads, and generally keeping track of local AI activity from the command line without switching to a graphical dashboard. The tool fits squarely within the system utilities and developer tools categories, complementing the growing ecosystem of software built around local AI deployment, where privacy, offline operation, and control over one's own hardware are primary motivations. As an open-source project hosted on GitHub, mtop follows the familiar community model in which the source code is publicly available, users can inspect how the tool works, and contributors can report issues or propose improvements. This publishing approach is characteristic of individual developers in the open-source community, where a single focused utility addresses a well-defined need and evolves through user feedback, practical iteration, and transparent development in a public repository.