Himanshu
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Himanshu

20-year-old builder and former startup founder, bridging AI research and production engineering.

Left Tejas AI (YC W25) in August 2026. Open to full-time roles, contract work, and research collaborations.

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Incubated by IIIT-Hyderabad CIE·shipped to Aditya Birla and Mensa·built search and agents at Tejas AI (YC W25)

I co-founded AuraX, a try-on startup whose diffusion models outperformed Google's and Stable Diffusion's in our benchmarks. Before that I built SynthAiLabs, a 500-student learning community that juniors restarted after I left. Most recently I built search and agents at Tejas AI (YC W25). I left in August 2026 and I'm looking for what's next.

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Experience

Where I've worked, newest first. Each role opens a page with what I actually did there.

Research

Published and ongoing work in AI, generative models, and cryptography.

Selected work

Open-source tools, infra experiments, and libraries — what I build when I'm not shipping company work.

Writing

Notes on technology, AI, and building things.

Mostly Rust and TypeScript day-to-day — Python for research, Next.js for anything I want to ship today, and a working knowledge of the infrastructure underneath: Postgres, Redis, Docker, AWS.

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What I'm reading

Books shaping how I think, outside the code.

Goodreads profile
Can We Be Strangers Again?Can We Be Strangers Again?Shrijeet Shandilya
Batman Special Edition (FCBD) #1: 2021 (Free Comic Book Day)Batman Special Edition (FCBD) #1: 2021 (Free Comic Book Day)John Ridley
80/20 Your Life! How To Get More Done With Less Effort And Change Your Life In The Process!80/20 Your Life! How To Get More Done With Less Effort And Change Your Life In The Process!Damon Zahariades
Evan: A Short Story (Regretfully Yours)Evan: A Short Story (Regretfully Yours)Maya Alden
Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)A.M. Shine
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of TraumaThe Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of TraumaBessel van der Kolk
VisageVisageHubert Przybyła
The Celestine Prophecy: An AdventureThe Celestine Prophecy: An AdventureJames Redfield
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering EverythingMoonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering EverythingJoshua Foer
Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)Lauren Roberts
Essays in LoveEssays in LoveAlain de Botton
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)Navessa Allen
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Want to talk?

Best reached by email — try-on diffusion, scrappy infra, or the economics of closing a startup, I'm happy to dig in.

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