# Aadesh Kheria

> founding engineer at hexclave (yc s24) in sf. cs grad from umd.

Site: https://www.aadesh.info · Email: aadeshkheria@gmail.com · GitHub: https://github.com/aadesh18 · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dash18/ · X: https://x.com/aadeshkheria

## Now: founding engineer at hexclave (yc s24), since Feb 2026
open-source user infra: auth, payments, emails, analytics. basically everything your app needs for its users.
- tiktok engine: paste a website, get tiktoks back. works over imessage too. plus growth and lead-gen agents.
- external db sync: postgres → clickhouse. built it in my 5-day trial week. 350k+ tenancies, millions of rows.
- unified ai endpoint + custom dashboards: one endpoint behind every ai feature. dashboards the ai builds for you.
- internal ai observability: logs every ai and mcp call, with a human-reviewed knowledge base on top.
- status page + monitoring engine: 8 regions. calls whoever's on call, leaves everyone else alone.
- stack cli: the init flow and stack doctor.

## Projects
- [kyrra](https://kyrra.dev): ai ops for india's family-run hospitals and factories. staff send voice notes in whatever language they speak, kyrra keeps the records and chases the follow-ups.
- [bloop](https://www.aadesh.info/bloop): an ai coworker on your mac. knows when to shut up.
- [sylvia](https://www.aadesh.info/sylvia): one home screen for all my agents. texts me back.
- [lettty](https://lettty.com): your github history, but make it receipts.
- [stock world](https://www.aadesh.info/p/stock-world): a research workbench for one question: what does an oil headline actually do to the market? it keeps an append-only record of sec filings and news, maps companies onto an economic graph, and runs oil scenarios and forecasts that get scored against what really happened. there's even a small crowd of ai agents that simulates how people react to the news. it runs on my laptop, and when it can't back a number up with a source, it doesn't give you one.
- [alylaa](https://www.aadesh.info/p/alylaa): an app for exactly two people. one shared chat that splits into topics, encrypted messages, and a pin + face id lock on everything. v2 adds a today feed that pulls in both your calendars and health data from oura and apple health. five years of long distance gave me a lot of opinions about what this app should be.
- [sera](https://www.aadesh.info/p/sera): a local marketplace where you post what you need and people nearby offer to help. think "anyone have a drill i can borrow" or "need someone to fix my ac", without handing your number to strangers. phone sign-in, private chats and photo sharing only between people who matched on a request. it's a foundation right now, not a launched app.
- [sidequester](https://www.aadesh.info/p/sidequester): an ai research workspace for finding startup ideas actually worth building. it pulls sources from the web and github, turns them into evidence, and scores the opportunities. validation, like emailing real people, only runs after i approve it, and it tracks what happened so the next round of research is smarter. it starts empty on purpose and never makes up a finding.
- [mcp squared](https://www.aadesh.info/p/mcp-squared): an mcp server that makes mcp servers. describe the api or tool you want, and it generates the server, deploys it, and publishes it so any ai agent can use it. built it at the dedalus labs agent builders hackathon, where it won multiple prize tracks.
- [canvas mcp](https://www.aadesh.info/p/canvas-mcp): lets claude use canvas, the platform a lot of universities run their classes on. students can ask about grades, assignments, quizzes, files and the calendar instead of clicking through tabs. instructors can create courses and assignments, grade, and enroll people. it ships as separate student, instructor and admin servers in docker, plus a small claude cli to talk to them.

## Hackathons (record 7–3)
- [dedalus labs agent builders](https://dedaluslabs.ai): multiple prize tracks · mcp squared
- [hackviolet](https://devpost.com/software/gomama): 2 prizes · capital one + godaddy
- [northrop grumman challenge](https://www.northropgrumman.com/careers): $1,500 · drone detection
- [foursquare places](https://devpost.com/software/swottle): best student-made app · $5k
- [bitcamp](https://devpost.com/software/shared-spaces): best moonshot hack
- [placehack](https://today.umd.edu/for-a-parking-lots-future-the-skys-the-limit): $200 award
- [hackumbc](https://devpost.com/software/not-decided-yet-sym1ru): best accessibility hack (fidelity)

## Timeline (newest first)
- Oct 2026: sylvia. one home screen for all my agents.
- Oct 2026: kyrra. ai ops for family-run hospitals and factories.
- Jul 2026: lettty. your github history, but make it receipts.
- Mar 2026: bloop. an ai coworker on your mac.
- Feb 2026: hexclave (yc s24). founding engineer. moved into the hacker house in sf.
- Dec 2025: graduated umd. b.s. computer science, entrepreneurship minor.
- Summer '25: cloudforce. intern.
- 2025: dedalus labs agent builders. won multiple prize tracks with mcp squared.
- Feb 2025: moved on from inzone. 7k+ downloads. left to go build something bigger.
- Jan 2025: swottle wraps up. lost to groupme. it happens.
- Oct 2024: swottle. campus social app. think instagram meets yik yak.
- Aug 2024: skandal. ₹100,000 in 4 months. started it as an excuse to see my gf.
- Summer '24: c-dac. swe intern. found out i'd rather build startups.
- Apr 2024: bitcamp 2024. genieai. no prize this time.
- Feb 2024: hackviolet. 2 prizes for gomama: capital one + godaddy.
- Nov 2023: northrop grumman challenge. $1,500 for a real-time drone detection app.
- Oct 2023: foursquare places. best student-made app. $5k in credits.
- Sep 2023: technica. mentor. helped other teams debug at 3 am.
- Apr 2023: bitcamp 2023. best moonshot hack for shared spaces.
- Feb 2023: placehack. $200 for an ai urban redesign of a parking lot.
- Feb 2023: mhacks 15. reunited. no prize, good chatbot.
- Nov 2022: hackumbc. first win. best accessibility hack (fidelity) for finsor.
- Oct 2022: inzone. co-founded a consumer social app.
- Aug 2022: umd. moved to maryland for cs.
- 2022: elsamma thomas gold medal. ib 42/45, topped the school.
- May 2022: ruhacking. a health app prototype. no prize.
- 2017: boarding school. five years, no phones.

## Earlier roles
- cloudforce, intern (Summer '25): built the tuckbot mvp that helped land dartmouth as a customer.
- inzone, co-founder (2022 – 25): consumer social app. 7k+ downloads, two years of growth experiments.
- swottle, founder (2024 – 25): campus social app. think instagram meets yik yak. lost to groupme.
- skandal, co-founder (2024): ₹100,000 in 4 months. started it as an excuse to see my gf. her parents had no idea.
- c-dac, swe intern (Summer '24): found out i'd rather build startups.
- umd, b.s. cs (2022 – 25): entrepreneurship minor. graduated dec 2025.
- boarding school, ib (2017 – 22): 42/45, topped the school, elsamma thomas gold medal. house captain too.

## Off the clock
- Watching brooklyn nine-nine: comfort rewatch. every season.
- Watching two and a half men: came for charlie, stayed for walden.
- Watching vikings: peak tv tbh.
- Watching game of thrones: on season 4 rn. no spoilers pls.
- amc a-list member. best deal in america and i'm not taking questions.
- Favorite casino game: three card poker, lifetime −$500.
- january 2024. me, an electric scooter, and my headphones. a campus cop pulls me over. i explain they're in transparency mode. turns out the state of maryland does not recognize transparency mode. pled guilty, paid the ticket. technically a traffic citation. ngl i'm still calling it a criminal record.
- five years at boarding school. anyway i own four screens now. no regrets.