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Shrivathsan Sakthisundaram “Shrivi”

I make AI work in the messy real world.

Duke ECE sophomore · Looking for Summer 2027 internships: SWE, AI engineering, forward deployed engineering.

Where I've shipped

  1. Beacon HealthYC W26Software Engineer Intern

    Aug 2026 to present

    Filed 200+ faxes with an agent that refuses to guess.

    200+ faxes filed, first 2 weeks · ~80% lower est. cost per fax · 33% → 100% checkout success, live sessions

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  2. Channel3YC S25Engineer Intern, GTM

    May to Jul 2026

    Found what the numbers were hiding, then fixed it.

    98% less data Google had to crawl each day, back to pre-launch levels · 4,000x bot inflation I found in the signup metric · #1 of 1,493 most-cited domain in tracked AI answers

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  3. AnchorCo-Founder and Engineer

    Apr to Aug 2026

    Closed the first paying client at 2.5x their budget cap.

    $2,500 first paying client · 2.5x their budget cap · 1,000s SKUs and images per catalog

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  4. AphasiaGPTFounding Engineer

    Nov 2025 to Apr 2026

    Clinical notes that cite the record, adopted by 20+ therapists.

    20+ therapists adopted it · 50+ patients · 47 merged full-stack PRs

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Built on my own time

  • Cold email agent. 200+ sends, 10+ founder conversations, and the Channel3 internship.code ↗
  • KitDen. Built in an afternoon. 3 of 3 inbound developers integrated.live ↗
  • Neonatal temperature monitor. Within 0.5 °C of a reference across 3 channels. Re-addressed sensors so 3 share one I2C bus.
  • Autonomous line-following robot. Ranked 1st in the class for accuracy.
  • Machine payments. Closed 2 holes in my own v1 before review. Found 6 defects in the rewrite.
  • iRx Reminder site. Built in week one with an ROI calculator. Adopted by the client.code ↗

Stack

Python · TypeScript · Java · SQL · C/C++ · Agents and guardrails · Evals · RAG · MCP · Claude API · Stagehand · React/Next.js · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Cloudflare Workers · Arduino/I2C · Node.js · Supabase · AWS Athena · Linux · gdb / valgrind

Also

Duke ECE, GPA 3.8 · Merged into shadcn's official directory · YC Startup School 2026 · Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurship Program