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▲ YC × 2● Building YouBank

I build AI tools that do the actual work.

CS + Business Honors at UT Austin. 10 open-source apps at Moss (YC F25). Building YouBank.

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▲ +2 YC internships
/Austin, TX · 30.28°N 97.73°Wscroll_to_enter ↓
  • MOSS: SWE intern (YC F25)
  • KOYAL AI: AI eng intern (YC F25)
  • YOUBANK: Live in beta
  • MOSS APPS: 10 shipped · 77 stars
  • MIT LL: OncoSense research
  • HACKATHONS: Walk-Free · Runway
  • RECALL@5: 0.85 → 0.97
  • SEC TOOLS: 328
  • GH 12M: 243 contributions
  • GH STARS: 117
  • AEO: Founded · 200+ members
  • CSB HONORS: UT Austin
  • TESTS: 1,000+ on YouBank
/01 · About

About

I build software at the point where AI meets money.

Fast search, honest research tools, and agents that know when not to hit send.

I'm Ayan. I build software where AI meets money: search that runs on your own machine, research tools that cite every number, agents that know when not to hit send. I'm in UT Austin's CS + Business Honors program, so I write the code and read the 10-K.

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UT Austin · CSB Honors (CS + Business)
Sector
Software · AI · Fintech
HQ
Austin, TX
Coverage
YC × 2 · Nonprofit founder
Languages
English · Hindi (fluent)
Status
● Building YouBank

What is CSB?

Two degrees, honors in both, one small cohort.

  • B.S. Computer Science (Honors)
  • B.B.A. Canfield Business Honors

Texas CSB (Computer Science and Business Honors) is a dual-degree program run jointly by UT Austin's Department of Computer Science and the McCombs Canfield Business Honors Program. Students earn a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.B.A., take honors coursework on both sides, and move through the program as a small cohort of about 20 to 30 students a year.

degrees, one program
2
coursework in both
Honors
students per cohort
20 to 30

Source: csb.utexas.edu

/Toolbox

  • LanguagesPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptRustC++JavaSQLMATLABHTML/CSS
  • AI / MLPyTorchPyTorch Geometricscikit-learnNumPyOpenCVLLM integration (OpenRouter)Retrieval + rerankingSemantic search (Moss)
  • Web & AppsReactNext.jsFastAPITauriChrome Extensions (MV3)REST APIs
  • Data & InfraPostgreSQLSupabaseModalVercelSQLiteDuckDBGit/GitHub
  • Scraping & Data EngBeautifulSoupScrapySeleniumyFinanceSEC EDGAR / XBRL
  • Quant & FinanceGARCHVaR + backtestingMonte Carlo valuationYield curvesCredit risk (Altman, Ohlson, Merton)DCF / comps

/Off the clock

  • BasketballDallas Mavericks, through every high and low.
  • SoccerWatches it, plays it, built a cross-era match engine for it.
  • PickleballYes, seriously.
  • Jersey collectingThe collection keeps growing.
  • LanguagesEnglish and Hindi.

/Organizations

  • Texas Accelerate
  • Directed Reading Program (DiRP)
  • CS and Business Association (CSBA)
  • Honors Business Association (HBA)
AYAN · Operating thesis

From thesis to ship: tools that turn messy data into decisions.

/02 · Experience

Where I've worked

  • Real-time semantic search runtime for AI apps. Rust compiled to WebAssembly, sub-10ms lookups in the browser, on device, or in the cloud. Built and shipped open-source apps on Moss's WebAssembly semantic search SDK.

    Remote / San Francisco, CA · moss.dev ↗

    • Shipped 10 open-source apps in TypeScript and Rust (mossJARVIS, Mycelium, Sentry, Thread, StudyOverlay and five more) with sub-10ms on-device retrieval. 77 GitHub stars combined.
    • Drove 100+ stars to the core usemoss/moss repo with technical posts on SDK performance that reached 5,000+ views.
    • Designed the OpenRouter LLM integration layer reused across all 10 builds and adopted by 5 other interns.
    • Contributed 3 pull requests to the Moss SDK.
    • TypeScript
    • Rust
    • WebAssembly
    • Moss SDK
    • OpenRouter
    • Tauri
    • Chrome Extensions
    • Node.js

  • Agentic AI filmmaking platform that turns a script or audio into a personalized video. One of the first interns. Computer vision for the video pipeline, plus early growth with the founders.

    Remote

    • Built OpenCV scene classification across 300+ video scenes, cutting manual review time by 70%.
    • Integrated an emotion classifier mapping 48 emotions to 6 core categories (95% lip-sync accuracy) and worked on a production face-swap pipeline with retries and multi-tier fallbacks across 1,000+ images (90% accuracy gain).
    • Grew the waitlist to 500+ through outreach to industry professionals alongside the founders.
    • Python
    • OpenCV
    • Computer Vision
    • ML Pipelines
    • Growth

  • Data engineering for low-resource language research on Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian media.

    Denton, TX

    • Built a scraping pipeline (BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium) that collected and cleaned 5,000+ news articles in three languages for LLM-based media-bias analysis.
    • Wrote multilingual cleaning and prompt-generation scripts for BelarusianQA, a low-resource QA benchmark, cutting manual annotation effort by 80%+.
    • Used LLMs to compare coverage across languages and produced labeled datasets for low-resource language modeling.
    • Python
    • NLP
    • LLMs
    • Scrapy
    • Selenium
    • BeautifulSoup
    • Data Cleaning

  • Founded a 501(c) financial-literacy nonprofit and grew it to 200+ members.

    Dallas, TX

    • Managed a $15,000 live investment portfolio.
    • Ran a stock pitch competition where 300+ interns submitted 100+ reports.
    • Leadership
    • Nonprofit
    • Investing
    • Financial literacy
AYANIndex · GP
220.2▲ +116.3%MAX
Oct 2026220.2YOUB YouBank live in beta. 328 tools on SEC data, quant models from scratch, an email agent that earns autopilot.

AYAN index · illustrative, not a real metric · flags mark real events

  1. Aug 2024: Founded Advanced Equities Organization. A financial-literacy nonprofit that grew to 200+ members and ran a $15,000 live portfolio.
  2. Jan 2025: Research Assistant, UNT Lab of NLP. Scraped and cleaned 5,000+ articles in three languages for media-bias research.
  3. May 2025: AI Engineering Intern, Koyal AI (YC F25). OpenCV scene classification and a production face-swap pipeline.
  4. May 2026: Software Engineering Intern, Moss (YC F25). Started building on a sub-10ms WebAssembly semantic search SDK.
  5. Jul 2026: 3 PRs opened on usemoss/moss. Community demos for StudyOverlay, Champions WC 26 and mossJARVIS.
  6. Aug 2026: Ten open-source apps shipped. Ten apps on one SDK, 77 GitHub stars combined.
  7. Oct 2026: YouBank live in beta. 328 tools on SEC data, quant models from scratch, an email agent that earns autopilot.
/03 · Projects

Things I've built

Most of them are open source. All of them run.

LiveFeatured · Finance

YouBank: open project page

The AI deal desk that learns how you work.

Cited analysis from SEC filings, a live Studio that builds models and decks cell by cell, and an email agent that tracks every thread, asks what it can't answer, remembers, and earns the right to send on its own. The terminal has 35+ functions and 328 tools on EDGAR and XBRL data, and every number cites its filing. Built for boutique advisors, emerging managers, founders and students.

  • 35+ functions
  • 328 tools
  • recall@5 0.85 → 0.97
  • 90%+ drafts unedited
Live : YouBank at youbank.dev (opens in a new tab)Code : YouBank on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
Illustrative watchlist with demo prices. Choose a symbol to chart it.
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182.40+1.24
512.10-0.38
301.70+0.52
788.20+0.91
171.90-1.10
664.30+0.27

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How it works
  • Quant models written from scratch in TypeScript: GARCH volatility, VaR with backtests, Monte Carlo valuation, a Treasury yield curve, and Altman, Ohlson, and Merton credit risk.
  • PyTorch services on Modal, including a GraphSAGE model for M&A link prediction and hybrid retrieval with cross-encoder reranking (recall@5 from 0.85 to 0.97).
  • Autopilot only sends a kind of email once a Bayesian bound learned from your edits says it has earned it. 90%+ of drafts go out unedited.
  • 1,000+ unit tests. Desktop app via Tauri.
YouBank's newsroom front page in dark mode, with market stories and terminal functionsYouBank terminal on a phone, listing function codesYouBank modeling studio on a phone

Built at Moss (YC F25)

Two of the apps I shipped on Moss's sub-10ms semantic search SDK. The other eight are in More work below.

10 apps · ★ 77 combined

Mycelium's search palette (from its demo video): a concept query returning ranked pages the user has read

Mycelium: open project page

8 GitHub stars

Your browser history, but it remembers ideas instead of URLs.

A Chrome extension that quietly indexes long-form pages as you read. Search for a concept, not a title, and it finds the page. A graph view shows how everything you've read connects.

  • TypeScript
  • Chrome Extension API (MV3)
  • Moss SDK (WASM)
  • d3-force
  • Canvas 2D
Shipped
Code : Mycelium on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

mossJARVIS: open project page

11 GitHub stars

An Iron Man HUD with a second brain.

A text-first personal assistant that runs in the browser or as a frameless, always-on-top Tauri overlay. Moss handles short and long-term memory with local retrieval that survives cloud or quota failure. OpenRouter handles generation. Ingests notes, PDFs, chat exports, articles, and YouTube transcripts.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Tauri 2
  • Rust
  • Moss SDK
Shipped
Code : mossJARVIS on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Hackathons, research & side builds

Two hackathon builds, an optical sensor built at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and a workspace I made for my own classes. Different worlds, same habit: ship the real thing.

Walk-Free at UT Austin: a 3D campus with a shaded walking route and route cards comparing sun exposure

Walk-Free: open project page

Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon · Indie track

See how hot every street feels before you walk it.

Heat-aware walking for campuses and cities. Every path is colored by modeled feels-like temperature for the hour you walk it, with shade ray-traced against OpenStreetMap buildings and tree crowns. Six route types pick the way, and Meta's Muse Spark plans the walk in your own language.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • three.js
  • MapLibre
  • Express
Live
Live : Walk-Free at walk-free.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)Code : Walk-Free on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
Runway's landing page: a runway check card with cash, burn, months left and the date cash runs out

Runway: open project page

AITX & MLOps World Hackathon · Austin Tech Week

Know the day your startup's cash runs out.

Reads a company's bank feed read-only and works out burn, runway and the zero-cash date with plain, tested arithmetic: the LLM never does the math. It finds wasted spend (overlapping tools, quiet price increases, subscriptions on idle cards, double charges) and posts what changed to Slack every Monday. Agents draft the fixes; a person approves every one.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Supabase Postgres
Live
Live : Runway at runway-for-rho.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)Code : Runway on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
The OncoSense band worn on a forearm, with the microcontroller and wiring on the outer face

OncoSense: open project page

Built at MIT Lincoln Laboratory with Eric Niu

A wearable that shines light into skin and reads what comes back.

An optical arm band: 850 nm near-infrared and 660 nm red LEDs beside a 10-channel spectral sensor, reading how skin scatters and returns light. A tiny neural network runs on the band itself to read skin state, and a browser monitor shows it live over Web Serial or runs a virtual band. Research prototype, not a medical device.

  • Arduino C++
  • SAMD21
  • AS7341 spectral sensor
  • Python + numpy
  • Web Serial
Live
Live : OncoSense at oncosense-monitor.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)Code : OncoSense on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
Stack's landing page previewing a computer science workspace in its terminal style, with lecture notes and due dates

Stack: open project page

Independent build

A workspace shaped by your major.

A Notion-style workspace whose notes, deadlines and databases set themselves up from what you study, in a style to match: a terminal for CS, a ledger for finance. Quick capture turns a line like "PS 5 for CS 61B due friday" into an assignment, and an AI tutor quizzes you on your own notes.

  • React
  • Vite
  • BlockNote
  • KaTeX
  • Shiki
Live
Live : Stack at stack-workspace.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Every project, as a knowledge graph

Drag a star · links stretch · click to open

EQSProject screener · 26 securities
MyceliummossJARVISThreadChampions WC 26Convos.AIDejaVuDuetSentryStudyOverlaySyllabusOncoSenseRunwayWalk-FreeStackYouBankQuantDeskNightShifttape-deck-mcpMnemosofferpilotDynastyGolden Era SoccerTourLegendClefEmotionClassifierLowResourceResearch

/More work

Built on the Moss SDK

Eight more apps I made on Moss's WebAssembly semantic search SDK during my internship, each with sub-10ms on-device retrieval.

idx 8/8 indexed · ★ 58

  • 01Thread on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Memory for coding agents, so they stop re-reading the same file. Hooks into Claude Code and Codex. Records every read, edit, command, and decision into a local Moss session index, then surfaces relevant prior context before the agent repeats work. Reminds, never blocks. Sessions resume by name across terminals, agents, or machines.TypeScript · Node.js · Moss SessionIndex 10 GitHub stars
  • 02Sentry on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A collision warning for parallel AI coding agents. Before each edit, Sentry checks whether another agent touched the same file recently or did semantically similar work elsewhere. It publishes deterministic edit summaries to a shared Moss index and warns with context. Never blocks, fails open, and ships a live terminal dashboard.TypeScript · Moss SDK · Claude Code hooks 5 GitHub stars
  • 03StudyOverlay on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A tutor that floats over whatever you're studying. An always-on-top transparent overlay. Hit a hotkey and it screenshots your screen, sends it to a vision model, and explains the problem like a tutor, with rendered math. Every answer is indexed into Moss, so 'solve this like the last one' actually works.Python · pywebview · mss 6 GitHub stars
  • 04Convos.AI on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Debate practice with an opponent that did the reading. Generates 24 balanced evidence cards per topic, retrieves from them every turn, and speaks back with ElevenLabs.Next.js · TypeScript · Moss SDK 11 GitHub stars
  • 05Champions WC 26 on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Draft an XI. Find its historical twin. Win the World Cup. Matches your drafted XI to the closest real historical squad, then sims it through the 2026 World Cup bracket. Optional Moss-powered conversational player search.TypeScript · SQLite · Moss SDK 8 GitHub stars
  • 06Syllabus on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A study knowledge base built only from your own files. Local-first. Ingests course materials, builds a concept graph from them, and answers with sources. Starts empty: no seeded courses or fake nodes.TypeScript · Moss SDK · OpenRouter 6 GitHub stars
  • 07Duet on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Shared context for pair programming. One Moss session index per room. Serializes multi-client writes, attributes every retrieval to an author and timestamp, and hints when two people are working on similar things.TypeScript · Moss SessionIndex 6 GitHub stars
  • 08DejaVu on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A journal that remembers what you wrote last time. Surfaces related past entries while you draft. Year heatmap, ranked semantic connections, and an entry graph. Moss key stays server-side.Next.js 15 · TypeScript · Cloudflare D1 6 GitHub stars

/Independent

  • QuantDesk on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A miniature trading stack in three independent parts. A Rust matching engine, a point-in-time Python strategy lab with bootstrap CIs on out-of-sample Sharpe, and an SVI vol-surface fitter. They share only versioned CSV/JSON.1.88M ops/sec · 2,751 ns p99 · 0.0022 IV RMSE
  • Dynasty on GitHub (opens in a new tab)1996 Bulls vs. 2017 Warriors, settled. Offline NBA sim over 119 team-seasons and 1,027 players. Monte Carlo moneyline, spread, and totals; possession-by-possession broadcast with exact box scores; a 1,230-game dynasty season.119 team-seasons · 1,027 players
  • Golden Era Soccer on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Seventy years of football on one pitch. Cross-era sim over 122 club and national-team snapshots from 1954 to 2024 and 1,552 players, with era-normalized ratings and a minute-by-minute match engine.JavaScript
  • TourLegend on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A full tennis season, point by point. Models service games, tiebreaks, surface fit, fatigue, and pressure across all 58 calendar events. Constants calibrated over 50 simulated seasons.JavaScript
  • tape-deck-mcp on GitHub (opens in a new tab)An MCP server for market data that can't be tricked. DuckDB over a Parquet market-data lake, behind a SQL AST guard tested against hostile input. Includes an event backtester and labels sample data so it can't pass as live.Python · DuckDB · Parquet
  • NightShift on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A quant research agent that grades its own calls. Built on Nous Research's Hermes Agent. Every number comes from a tested Python pipeline. Writes a morning note and scores its past predictions. Read-only.Python · Hermes Agent
  • Mnemos on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Memory tiers for long-running agents. Episodic, semantic, and procedural memory with per-tier decay, importance-protected salience, and an eval harness with ablations.TypeScript
  • offerpilot on GitHub (opens in a new tab)A job-hunt console where the agent can't touch state directly. SQLite application state machine, SM-2 interview review scheduling, and property tests. The agent reads and writes through one CLI.Python · SQLite · Hypothesis
  • Clef on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Audio in, sheet music out. Turns audio or video into an editable sheet-music draft. Exports MusicXML, MIDI, and PDF. No GPU or API key needed.Python
  • EmotionClassifier on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Faces, smiles, and feelings with plain OpenCV. Face, eye, and smile detection with emotion labels and confidence scores. CLI for images and video plus a Streamlit front end.Python · OpenCV · Streamlit
  • LowResourceResearch on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Building evals for languages LLMs ignore. Corpus collection, tokenization analysis on morphologically rich text, and the BelarusianQA evaluation set from the UNT lab.Python · Jupyter
/04 · Trophy case

Leadership & recognition

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Shipping, in public

Public GitHub only, log-scaled so one big day doesn't flatten the rest. 31 public repos · ★ 117 · @AyanBhardwaj1 ↗

AYAN-GHContribution surface
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Monthly contributions, Last 12M
Oct 202526
Nov 20259
Dec 20253
Jan 20260
Feb 20260
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May 202613
Jun 20260
Jul 202644
Aug 202627
Sep 202671
Oct 202650
Total
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High
35 (SEP 30)
Active days
52
Streak
5D (best 6D)
Avg / active day
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σ / wk
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Monthly · last 12

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Top languages · by bytes, own repos

  • TypeScript 89%
  • Python 6.5%
  • JavaScript 2.5%
  • Rust 1.7%
  • C++ <0.1%
/06 · Contact

Contact

Let's build something.

I'm always up for talking about AI tools, search, fintech, or the Mavs' rotation. The fastest way to reach me is email.

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