I've been building since grade three.
I started taking things apart in grade three. Whatever was around — toys, remotes, battery-powered anything. Most of them didn't survive. Some of them taught me.
By grade six I was on Arduino and Lego Mindstorms. Sensors, motors, line-followers, obstacle-avoiders. I wasn't solving anything important yet — but I was learning how to make something that wasn't there a minute ago.
At twelve I took 3rd place at Roborave India — a national robotics competition — and qualified for the international round that same year. That's when it stopped being a hobby and started being a pattern.
At fifteen, during lockdown, I started Mortal Magazine — a tech review publication — and cold-called Samsung India's CEO's office for an interview. I didn't land the interview. I did ship six issues and earn four hundred dollars in ad revenue before board exams paused it.
At nineteen I started shipping AI: a U-Net for MRI tumour segmentation, a smart mirror that detected acne with YOLOv8 (the patent application 202641022498 was filed and published), a Raspberry Pi dog that reacted to touch. The Smart Mirror took 2nd Prize at VIT's IAIC 2025.
At twenty I co-founded a registered startup in packaged food (Innaya Nutri Foods) and built Laundroswipe — launched March 15, 2025 and now serving 600+ active student users across VIT Chennai with a five-person team.
Today I'm at VIT Chennai for Computer Science, IIT Madras for Data Science, preparing for CFA Level 1 (August 2026), heading to Harvard HPAIR 2026 as a delegate, and actively building four more products across PropTech, LegalTech, and SE Asia logistics. The through-line is the same one grade-three me started: take the problem, build the thing, ship it, learn what was wrong, rebuild.