20 y/o · 2x yc · founding engineer at referrush · bangalore, india
i build systems that stay calm under pressure. i care about security, infrastructure, and things that are hard to corrupt. i live in the terminal and fall into rabbit holes for a living. past lives include shipping an ai email indexing pipeline at a yc'23 company, finding a sql injection in rice.edu at 17, and building developer tooling that people actually use. if i'm not coding, i'm obsessing over mechanical keyboards or reading about distributed systems.
founding engineer · feb 2025 — present
building the core systems from zero. high ownership, fast iteration, everything from infra to product. the thing i think about when i wake up.
software engineer · yc w23
built the auto-tagging engine and full-email indexing pipeline for ai search and automation. real-time classification across millions of messages. my first yc stint.
backend engineer · 2024 — 2025
database design, user onboarding, authentication, and b2b integrations. short tenure, wide surface area. learned how a startup dies in real time.
independent · age 17
found a sql injection flaw while learning security. dumped the duplicated database, documented the vulnerability, and sent a full audit with fixes. no malicious intent — just curiosity. first time a bug felt real.
creator
a github app that reviews issues, writes prs, understands codebases for security audits, auto-merges when clean, and proactively surfaces vulnerabilities. the thing i wanted to exist, so i built it.
creator
natural-language workflow orchestration for n8n. describe what you want in plain english, the agent assembles the workflow. open source.
creator
minimal, fast firebase framework. cut the fat, keep the realtime primitives. built because the existing client sdk was too heavy for what i needed.
creator
a cursor-style editor built for writing — with ai assists and detection-resilient prose tooling. an experiment in whether the 'ai editor' loop works outside of code.