Aditya Rao · Software Engineer · Co-Founder & CTO
NOW
- Co-Founder & CTO, Edtech Startup (May 2025 - Present). Built a K-5 math platform that teaches through live sports.
- Software Engineer, Series B Fintech (Jun 2026 - Present). Building the agent harness behind a consumer product's AI assistant, from orchestration through evaluation.
SELECTED EARLIER ROLES
- Founding AI Engineer, Stealth AI Startup (a16z-backed) (Feb 2026 - Jun 2026). Built LLM-powered CRM and outreach features as founding engineer.
- Full Stack AI Engineer Intern, Sixfold AI (Series B) (Jun 2025 - Aug 2025). Cut LLM evaluation time 40% with Langfuse observability tooling.
- Founding Machine Learning Engineer, HoopSight AI (Aug 2024 - Feb 2025). Built an NBA model at 74% across 400+ games, ahead of ESPN's picks.
- Undergraduate Researcher, Google exploreCSR (Oct 2023 - Dec 2024). Built an iClicker alternative driven by gesture recognition.
RESEARCH
- Robust Graph-Based Android Malware Classification Under Distribution Shift
- Identifying Subgiant Stars and Binary Systems in Gaia DR3
- S&P 500 Forecasting Using Generative AI
- V-QUIP: Vision-Based Quick Impromptu Polling
- Fall Detection for Rare Events and Changing Devices
- Identifying Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease from MRI