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Rach Pradhan / 2025
Design Engineer & Founder

Building innovative products with Foundation Models

YC Interviewee, multiple hackathon winner, and creator of products with 150k+ monthly users.

Featured Projects

Building the future with innovative technologies

Open Source
Bhumi

Bhumi

Ultra-fast AI inference client with adaptive streaming

Open Source
Satya

Satya

High-performance validation library that outperforms Pydantic

Open Source
kew

kew

Modern Async Task Queue for Python

huewheel

huewheel

AI-powered color palette generator, ranked #1 on Bing SEO

Open Source
pyscholarly

pyscholarly

Python library for academic paper analysis and citation tracking

Citanium

Citanium

Ciation tracker for researchers

Ai Wallz

Ai Wallz

AI-powered wallpaper generator using OMNI-EPIC

Discontinued
rachit.ai

rachit.ai

Search engine for South East Asia

condensation.ai

condensation.ai

Embedding as a service platform with novel diffusion models

trilok.ai

trilok.ai

Analytics platform for modern websites

Open Source
Dartive

Dartive

Dart based backend, for Flutter apps

VroomSG

VroomSG

Bus tracking app with 60k daily active users

Experience

Professional Journey

  • Menlo.ai
    Member of Technical Staff
    Current
    2025-Present

    Working on advanced robotics systems and ML infrastructure.

  • Condensation.ai
    Founder
    YC Interview
    2023-2024

    YC Interviewee for W24 and S24. Developed novel diffusion models for early disease detection.

  • BGARAGE
    Software and Robotics Intern
    2023

    Developed CLI tools and topometric map algorithms, reducing costs by $5-7k per engineer monthly.

Achievements

Recognition & Awards

  • HackTheNorth Winner
    Cohere, Convex & WebSummit• 2024
  • National University of Singapore
    Graduated• 2024
  • CalHacks 10.0 Winner
    Berkeley's Flagship Hackathon• 2023
  • CalHacks AI Winner
    AIxCrypto Track• 2023
  • Phillip Yeo Scholar
    NOC Silicon Valley• 2023
  • NUS Student Union EXCO
    Executive Committee• 2023

Things I Like

Personal interests & discoveries from my journey

Explore CafesChat with AI

Great Coffee Spots

I'm always exploring the best cafes around the world

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Tech Books

Recent reads on ML systems and engineering

Designing Data-Intensive Apps...Coming soon

Travel Spots

Places I've enjoyed visiting recently

Vancouver, BC, San Francisco...Coming soon