Hello, I'm Hrishikesh. Software engineer at Button Labs in San Francisco, with experience building full-stack applications and AI agents.
I spent 5–6 years trading and investing in public markets, and from that experience I saw how AI agents could make investing much better. So I decided to try building my own startup, StrataLens AI, a platform for public market equity research. Along the way, I also built TheMarketCast.ai, a tool for tracking private fundraising activity that grew to 3,000+ weekly users and is now part of Smartkarma.
I love building with web data and poking around in it. Lately I've been building my own search engine: 500M pages, kept fresh within 1–2 days, for under $250 a month. I write about all of it on Substack.
Earlier on, I was a founding engineer at an Accel-backed startup in India and a core contributor to OpenMined's PySyft, an open-source library for privacy-preserving ML. I also did my Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, where I worked on LLM code generation and hardware security.
Grew up playing Project IGI. Leveling up to play Project AGI.