Aadesh Kheria

aadesh kheria

your friendly neighbourhood engineer.

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

CH 01 · LIVE
LIVESINCE FEB 2026

founding engineer at hexclave yc s24

open-source user infra: auth, payments, emails, analytics. basically everything your app needs for its users.

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    tiktok engine. paste a website, get tiktoks back. works over imessage too. plus growth and lead-gen agents.

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    external db sync. postgres → clickhouse. built it in my 5-day trial week. 350k+ tenancies, millions of rows.

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    unified ai endpoint + custom dashboards. one endpoint behind every ai feature. dashboards the ai builds for you.

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    internal ai observability. logs every ai and mcp call, with a human-reviewed knowledge base on top.

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    status page + monitoring engine. 8 regions. calls whoever's on call, leaves everyone else alone.

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    stack cli. the init flow and stack doctor.

BREAKING
founding engineer at hexclave (yc s24) ◆lives in the hexclave hacker house in sf rn ◆long distance for 5 years and counting ◆got this job and the last internship off hackathons ◆ib 42/45, topped the school ◆three card poker lifetime: −$500 ◆once told a cop his headphones were in transparency mode. full story on ch 05 ◆
KHERIA·VISION
TONIGHT ON KHERIA·VISION

$ git log --graph --all

everything, including all the stuff running in parallel.

4 side projects open rn, plus the day job on main. sleep is not one of the branches.

  1. HEAD→ main

    now

    anything with a line reaching up here is still running rn.

  2. sylvia

    Oct 2026

    one home screen for all my agents.

  3. kyrra

    Oct 2026

    ai ops for family-run hospitals and factories.

  4. lettty

    Jul 2026

    your github history, but make it receipts.

  5. bloop

    Mar 2026

    an ai coworker on your mac.

  6. founding engineer. moved into the hacker house in sf.

  7. graduated umd

    Dec 2025

    b.s. computer science, entrepreneurship minor.

  8. cloudforce

    Summer '25

    intern.

  9. won multiple prize tracks with mcp squared.

  10. moved on from inzone

    Feb 2025

    7k+ downloads. left to go build something bigger.

  11. swottle wraps up

    Jan 2025

    lost to groupme. it happens.

  12. swottle

    Oct 2024

    campus social app. think instagram meets yik yak.

  13. skandal

    Aug 2024

    ₹100,000 in 4 months. started it as an excuse to see my gf.

  14. c-dac

    Summer '24

    swe intern. found out i'd rather build startups.

  15. bitcamp 2024

    Apr 2024

    genieai. no prize this time.

  16. hackviolet

    Feb 2024

    2 prizes for gomama: capital one + godaddy.

  17. $1,500 for a real-time drone detection app.

  18. best student-made app. $5k in credits.

  19. technica

    Sep 2023

    mentor. helped other teams debug at 3 am.

  20. bitcamp 2023

    Apr 2023

    best moonshot hack for shared spaces.

  21. placehack

    Feb 2023

    $200 for an ai urban redesign of a parking lot.

  22. mhacks 15

    Feb 2023

    reunited. no prize, good chatbot.

  23. hackumbc

    Nov 2022

    first win. best accessibility hack (fidelity) for finsor.

  24. inzone

    Oct 2022

    co-founded a consumer social app.

  25. umd

    Aug 2022

    moved to maryland for cs.

  26. elsamma thomas gold medal

    2022

    ib 42/45, topped the school.

  27. ruhacking

    May 2022

    a health app prototype. no prize.

  28. boarding school

    2017

    five years, no phones.