arshan kaudinya

founder & student · cs ’28

completing the incomplete.

about

the only thing out of my control is consistent change.

everyone seems to be “building the next big thing” — i’m building the next big me. i’m driven by the need to outdo who i was yesterday.

i’m into tech, philosophy, fitness and the broader project of understanding how to live well.

highlights

second runner‑up — build india ’26

national hackathon by Anthropic × Replit × Lightspeed · 2026

  • yc startup school — $25,000

    y combinator’s startup school india, bengaluru · 2026

  • top 50 of 800 — sih internal ’25

    smart india hackathon internal selection round · 2025

  • vice chairperson — ieee computer society

    leading club operations & events · 2026

work 01 / 06

Homeie

engineer · 2026 — present

an ai platform for renting.

work 02 / 06

ZoomRx

technical staff (intern) · 2026 — present

working on open-source ai model pipelines, cost optimisation, and prompt optimisation for production llm systems.

work 03 / 06

AskSoca

founding engineer (intern) · 2026

full stack, ai integration, voice agents, devops, analytics and product

work 04 / 06

PlainField AI

founder · 2025 — present

started as Promptly, a Chrome extension that rewrote prompts on the fly — that early signal led to PlainField AI.

building an LLM gateway that improves prompts on its own: it routes calls, surfaces the ones quietly burning money, then A/B-tests stronger variants in production and promotes the winners — a one-line integration with zero code changes.

work 05 / 06

YourToken

software engineer (intern) · 2026

migrated the product backend from TypeScript to Rust, driving major performance optimizations across the stack.

work 06 / 06

Forvis Mazars

software engineer (intern) · 2025

built internal tooling for the Digital, Trust & Transformation team — small, sharp utilities that quietly removed daily friction.

projects

encoder-sim

2026

end-to-end file transfer system in rust: huffman compression with canonical codes, bit-level i/o, a framed binary protocol with crc32 checksums, and a deliberately hostile network simulator (latency, jitter, loss, reordering) to prove the reassembler holds up.

view on github
promptly2025pdfhelper2025thriftee2024

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© 2026 · arshan kaudinya