Aryan Vichare
Hey, I'm Aryan Vichare. I'm a full stack developer and startup engineer based in Silicon Valley.
My Journey
Engineering · Full Stack Developer & Founding Engineer
Studyverse
- Pioneered development of product from scratch- leveraged Next.js, Typescript, GraphQL/Apollo, and Firebase to build virtual study rooms front-end and back-end infrastructure.
- Developed core features within rooms including personal/group pomodoro timer, tasks/subtasks list, peer-to-peer video & audio calling, chat interface, and custom music & background selection.
- Grew user base from 0 to 1000 DAUs and raised $2M in seed funding from Bling Capital, Spacecadet, etc. Worked on several initiatives from UI design with Figma to analytics tracking with Amplitude and Hotjar.
Engineering · Full Stack Developer & Founding Engineer
Speechify
- Developed Chrome Extension using React.js, Typescript, Node.js, Nest.js, and Express. Worked extensively with GCP, Firebase Suite, and Serverless functions.
- Built on-boarding flow in Vue.js, OAuth 2.0 Authentication Methods, and billing customer portal with Stripe. Worked with AWS Polly and client-side Audio Buffering to create the AI-powered TTS Voice Engine.
Engineering · Software Engineering Intern
Hours
- Pioneered entire application migration to a standardized design system and global design theme using TailwindCSS and JIT Engine. Optimized production builds using PurgeCSS and Brotli Compression.
- Engineered entire analytics system using Amplitude for measuring key metrics, retention rates, user journeys, and funnel analysis. Used Sentry for efficient error tracking and performance monitoring.
- Added trust & safety features to make Hours a safe platform for anyone. Conducted user research and feature validation with Userleap.
Engineering · Software Engineering Intern
Inspirit
- Accelerated app migration from Flutter to a Unity code base for enhanced, interactive 3D educational experiences for learning about complex biological systems and AP Biology concepts.
Engineering · Co-Founder & CEO
CoinGems
- Built CoinGems, a community-based platform and voting system to allow people to discover emerging cryptocurrencies and support their communities.
- Scaled CoinGems to over 150,000 users within the first month from over 200 countries around the world. One of the largest databases with a listing of over 1700 small cryptocurrencies.
- Developed CoinGems Gem Finder to allow users to find high-potential cryptocurrencies to invest in through an in-depth analysis of RT trading on the blockchain, price & marketcap analysis, and social media tracking.
Engineering · CEO & Co-Founder of AngelVote and G2-Glove Pump
Anomaly Science
- Built a novel prototype of G2-Glove Pump, a wearable technology, to monitor blood glucose levels and peripheral neuropathic pain levels in diabetic patients with cancer.
- Built web platform to ingest a stream of RT data from a MongoDB Database. Built hardware powered by an Arduino Microcontroller which calibrates and collects vital sensor readings (G2-Glove Pump).
- Built AngelVote: a web platform aimed to facilitate decentralized voting with the intent of bringing more transparency, fairness, and truth to contemporary elections.
- Filing 2 patents under USPTO for AngelVote and G2-Glove Pump.
Research · Research Assistant
Stanford BMIR Lab
- Pursued brain tumor research for medical image classification of glioblastomas using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for analyzing multi-modal DICOM images.
- Used Mask R-CNNs for Image Segmentation and Anomaly Detection of brain tumors. Built computational pipelines to facilitate early-detection of glioblastomas.
Research · Research Student
COSMOS
- Pursued research on the topic of Tissue and Tumor Biology and Mathematical/Computational Modeling under Dr. John Lowengrub and Dr. Emi Embler.
- Created mathematical models to simulate treatments against lung CSC & non-CSC populations, to determine the most optimal treatments for reducing lung cancer metastatic progression, relapse, and angiogenesis.
- Created a poster presentation on my research topic and presented to a panel of distinguished research professors.
Volunteering · Founder, Executive Director, & Webmaster
OrionHacks
- Designed and created the OrionHacks website and curriculum. Led OrionHacks global outreach initiative and brought together over 300 participants from 18 countries around the world. Reached 6K+ people across the world.
- Handled all event finances, legal paperwork, and 501(c)(3) status of OrionHacks in collaboration with Hack Club Bank. Raised $152,400 valuation in sponsorships from over 60 sponsors.
- Facilitated all event meetings and workshops. Invited industry speakers and judges to empower, inspire, and mentor the high school participants.
Volunteering · Director of Sponsorships (2020) & Curriculum (2021)
LingHacks
- Led Sponsorships (2020) and Curriculum (2021). Raised monetary funding from companies in AI/NLP space (i.e. AIBrain, Appen) and in-kind donations. Partnered with Obama's CSforALL initiative.
- Created workshops on AI/ML/NLP topics to gain skills in computational linguistics. Mentored students on software projects addressing scientific/social issues.
Volunteering · Director of Technology
SolarHacks
- Designed and built SolarHacks website. Helped raise monetary funding and in-kind donations ($50K+ valuation). Secured deals with food companies to provide free food.
- Arranged for technical/career workshops and keynote speeches from industry professionals. Mentored students on hackathon projects, provided both technical and presentation support.
Volunteering · President
FHS Programming Club
- Oversee club leads and curriculum. Host weekly officer meetings/check-ins. Manage financials, club funding, and partnership with Hack Club organization. Lead external sponsorships, grant opportunities to elevate club (partnered with Github, Jetbrains, Voiceflow).
- Led many high-impact workshops to introduce students to Website Design, Mobile App Development, Hardware, Machine Learning by building projects.
- Designed and built club website. Oversee club events: mini-hackathons, FHS Hackathon.
Volunteering · Tech & Outreach Director
FHS National Honor Society
- Build & maintain official website (fremontnhs.com) - school/community service opportunities, club resources, calendar, semester hours submissions. 800+ active users monthy (~half school student body).
- Website connects the gap between students and volunteering opportunities. Lead reaching out to organizations in the community for potential partnerships. 1st year in Fremont history to have website.
Projects
Here are some of the notable projects I created at several hackathons. Feel free to click on them to learn what inspired me to build this project, how I built it, challenges I ran into, my learnings, and much more.
AngelVote
Voter convenience, voter fairness, voter confidence and voter turnout. We will help you secure your vote online with a variety of authentication methods to ensure fair, balanced and secure elections.
Immunize
Mass vaccination effectively, efficiently, and safely.
Study Pal
Study Faster with a lecture processing service which will summarize your lectures and produce quizzes and external resource links for you.
Eco.life
Bringing transparency to the rating system in fashion industry.
Neuroway
Neurostimulation Headband
Podcare+
Make podcasts accessible for everyone
Collabor8
Elev8, Cre8, Innov8.
RediSafe
Secure Healthcare on Blockchain
G2 Glove-Pump
Hands on with your therapy
AI.nchors
The AI-powered news anchor. Analyze, summarize, verify and get news read to you from an anchor picked across history in your language.
PicoPay
Smart Cities Transformation with MiamiCoins.
Cyber.Eye
The AI that is always looking out for you. This platform visualizes crime data across the US, notifies you of any crimes within the vicinity and let's you know if you enter a high crime risk area.
Virtual.ly
Re-imagining the virtual workspace.
InvestX
Align your investments with your values
Protect
Protect is a unified platform for people to access real-time statistics and news on the coronavirus, built coronavirus prevention tools and a social collaborative networking site.
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