The person behind the projects
I'm Shaurya — a 16-year-old sophomore from Irvine, California. I build across software, electronics, and the machine shop, and I'm happiest when a project forces me to learn all three at once.
Engineering philosophy
Build to understand
I learn things by making them. The fastest way I know to understand a system is to build a working version of it and watch where it breaks.
Finish the thing
A working prototype teaches more than a perfect plan. I'd rather ship something real and honest about its limits than polish something that never runs.
Design responsibly
Just because you can build something doesn't mean it should collect everything. My vision projects are privacy-first on purpose.
Boundaries over cleverness
Good structure beats a clever hack. Clean separation between parts is what lets me change one thing without breaking everything else.
Redo it until it's right
When a coat of finish came out uneven, we stripped the whole side and started over. Redoing work isn't failure — it's the standard.
Use AI to move faster
I treat AI as a force multiplier for learning and building — a way to ask better questions and iterate faster, not a shortcut around understanding.
From taking things apart to building systems
Second Place, 43rd IUSD Science Fair
My sun-tracking solar panel earned Second Place, representing South Lake Middle School. The project that hooked me on systems where code controls the physical world.
VEX IQ Robotics, Team 92614B
Designed, wired, and programmed a competition robot with my team. First taste of engineering under real constraints and a deadline.
Into the workshop
Learned Fusion 360, 3D printing, laser cutting, soldering, and woodworking through hands-on builds — a light base, a guitar, a biomimetic sculpture.
First web & client work
Built Studio Vision, a full marketing website for a real architecture practice, and started writing more serious code.
Building real AI systems
Shipped Leo (a distributed multi-agent voice assistant) and started a privacy-first computer-vision safety camera — the projects I'm proudest of, and where I want to keep going.
Going deeper on ML and systems
Sharpening my Python, getting hands-on with model fine-tuning and retrieval, and learning how to design software that stays clean as it grows. Every project is an excuse to pick up the next tool.
What I'm building
Pushing Leo toward offline fallback and faster on-device responses, and exploring fine-tuning a helmet-detection model on a targeted dataset for the safety camera.
Ideas I keep coming back to
Rich Dad Poor Dad reshaped how I think about learning, value, and betting on yourself. I read widely about science, technology, and how builders turn ideas into companies.
The goal
To study engineering and computer science at a top program, work on hard problems in AI and hardware, and eventually build things — maybe a company — that matter.
What keeps me curious
A few of the things that pull my attention when I'm not building something.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Entrepreneurship
- Reading
- Science & Tech
- Hands-On Building
- Robotics
- Design
- Problem-Solving
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs
A few fun facts
Solar powered start
My first award came from a panel that chases the sun. Fitting, since I haven't stopped chasing the next build since.
I gave my AI a face
One of my assistants is a cartoon monkey that watches your screen. Personality makes tools people actually use.
Two laptops, one brain
Leo runs across two of my own computers, networked over an encrypted mesh, a home built distributed system.
Let's build something.
Internships, research, robotics, or just a good problem — I'd love to hear from you.