Smart India Hackathon
Winner · 1st of 1.5M
A compressed weekend of building, testing, and defending one idea in public.
NASA MMGIS · SURFACE POSITION SNAPSHOTLAST VERIFIED
Building from Hyderabad, India
SharatChandra
I build systems that move money, then follow my curiosity into working software.
FOUNDING ENGINEER · AI NATIVE BUILDER · ENDLESSLY CURIOUS
₹3,000 Cr moved in real time240 ms voice handoff1 → 26 engineers99.9% consistency2 days → 2 hours100K requests a day1st of 1.5M · SIH 202211 experiments filed
ABOUT
WhatIkeepreturningto
I am happiest when a vague idea becomes something people can actually use.
At work, that means payments that reconcile exactly, software that stays calm under pressure, and teams trusted with the whole outcome.
Away from work, I build to find out whether an idea survives contact with reality. Hackathons make that answer arrive very quickly. The deadline is real, the demo is public, and the learning sticks.
Hackathon logOpen the competition drawer
₹3,000 Cr+
moved through real time payments
1 → 26
engineering team, scaled
2d → 2h
release cycle, compressed
100K+
requests handled every day
WORK
Systemswithconsequences
Hyderabad · DEC 2025 · PRESENT
ASBL
Founding Engineer, SDE II
I build the financial nervous system behind the organisation.
₹3,000 Cr+payment volume
99.9%consistency
2 hoursrelease cycle
- 01
Run the finance platform end to end, moving ₹3,000 Cr+ through real time payments at 99.9% consistency.
- 02
Built intelligent invoicing systems that capture the entire organisation's cash flow, plus loan engines that drive its financial planning.
- 03
Built single commit delivery with ephemeral environments. Releases moved from two days to two hours, and a 20 person QA queue stopped existing.
See the deeper cutsClose the deeper cuts
- Loan forecasting engines that replaced eight hours of weekly spreadsheet modelling.
- Agentic reconciliation matches 99% of bank statement lines, then hands the rest to a human with its reasoning attached.
- Prototyped agentic payments over MCP, from invoice to collection without a human relay.
MY FAVOURITE LOOP01 / 04
01
Something feels off. I stay with it long enough to ask a better question.
02
I make just enough of an answer to learn from it.
03
Reality gets a vote. The useful scars stay.
04
I keep what worked, return sharper, and ask the next question.
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EXPERIMENTS
ThingsIhadtotry
Eleven attempts to turn a stubborn question into something I could touch, test, or hand to another person.
CortexA factory floor of software agents. The current obsession.2026 · in progressDuetVoice AI that listens while it talks. 240 ms answers, benchmark published, warts included.2026 · measuredWYRDAn agent that memes Polymarket's weirdest bets. Unsupervised, on purpose.2026 · buildathonStormwiseOne answer in a flood: what should my household do next?2026 · buildingMealMindTell it how your day looks. It plans the cooking.2026 · shippedKYA, Know Your AgentA passport office for AI agents.2025 · open sourcethenicebrokerA broker that actually listens. Because it isn't human.2025 · experimentpryskaFinancial intelligence shipped solo, across product, design, AI, and infrastructure.2025 · shippedchaosmosWhat does a black hole merger sound like? A weekend answered.2023 · experimentMetacartCreator owned commerce on Web3 rails. Then it survived peer review.2022 · publishedSereneCalm synced to your heartbeat. 1st of 1.5 million, SIH 2022.2022 · national winner
NOTES
Ideasworthkeeping
Latest notes
Benchmarks that can hurt youI published the table where my own system loses. Here's why that was the whole point.2026The reconciliation mindsetMatch 99%, surface the 1%. The useful pattern hiding inside boring finance work.2026Two days to two hoursWhat actually made releases 24× faster. It wasn't the pipeline.2026
All notes →From the library
AntifragileSystems that gain from disorder. The ops philosophy I had before I could name it.Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and SlowThe debugging manual for the machine doing the debugging.Daniel KahnemanZero to OneCompetition is for losers; so is consensus curiosity.Peter Thiel
The whole shelf →CONTACT
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Tell me what you cannot stop thinking about.
Agents, systems, films, philosophy, or an idea that deserves a real attempt. I am always up for a thoughtful conversation.