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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

AuraX — try-on diffusion

Shipped to
Aditya Birla · Mensa

Production, paying customers

Built at
Tejas AI (YC W25)

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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.

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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01

Experience

Every role, newest first. Each one opens a page with what I actually did there.

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Roles

02

Selected work

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

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AI Tools
CCProxy

A universal proxy that lets Claude Code talk to any AI provider: OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama models.

AI Tools · TypeScript

AI Platform
OpenCrow

Open-source AI agent platform for embedding intelligent customer support assistants into web applications.

React · TypeScript · Node.js

Infrastructure
AI Inference Platform

High-performance AI inference platform with intelligent model routing — classifies query complexity via embeddings and heuristics, routing simple queries to fast/cheap models and complex ones to GPT-4 class models.

Rust · Axum · Tokio

AI Tools
TuneSLM

Drop your dataset and answer a few questions — get an ipynb notebook ready for Google Colab to fine-tune your SLM of choice, powered by Unsloth.

Python · Unsloth · Google Colab

DevTools
MockServer

A CLI tool that spins up a mock backend so you can build the frontend before the real one exists, with a GUI to configure it.

TypeScript · Next.js · Express

Software
FastSearch

A privacy-focused search engine written in Rust, as an alternative to Google Search.

Rust · JavaScript

03

Writing

Notes on technology, AI, and building things.

All writing

Recent

04

Research

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

All papers

Papers

05

Cadence

Live commit activity, open-source repositories, and experimental side builds.

@Himasnhu-AT
Year Total

3,723

contributions in 12 mo

Current Streak

4 days

consecutive building

Best Streak

64 days

all-time high streak

Active Days

344 / 365

94% commit consistency

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Git workflow·main, feature branches & open-source PRs
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06

Reading

Books shaping how I think, outside the code.

Goodreads
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?

Grab a 15-minute slot or reach out by email — try-on diffusion, scrappy infra, or the economics of closing a startup, I'm happy to dig in.

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