Aryan Sawhney
Co-Founder & CTO at Narrative (YC F25)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAryan Sawhney is a tech founder and CTO based in San Francisco with five years of hands-on experience building AI-driven video processing and multimodal visual intelligence. A Brown CS student with a 4.0 GPA, he co-founded Narrative (YC) to create Claude-like tooling for video editing and previously led engineering at early-stage YC startups and projects. He’s a full-stack maker who has shipped real-time visual intelligence systems, led cross-functional product teams, and contributed notable UX and keybinding improvements to open-source knowledge tools like Logseq and Athens. Comfortable spanning frontend polish to backend ML pipelines, Aryan pairs product intuition with deep implementation skills and a history of turning academic multimodal research into production-ready features. An uncommon thread in his background is combining community-driven open-source work with startup execution, evidenced by both Logseq/athens contributions and leadership roles at RevisionDojo and Mirror.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & Behavioral Science, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & Behavioral Science, 4.0/4.0 at Brown UniversitySingapore American SchoolStamford American International School, SingaporeAmerican International School of GuangzhouInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Dubai International AcademyOberoi International School
Github Skills (19)
clojure-cli10
css10
user-interface10
clojure10
cl10
front-end-development10
keybindings10
react10
clojurescript10
notepad10
javascript9
knowledge-graph9
evernote9
ui-design8
git8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
logseq/logseq
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: http://trello.com/b/8txSM12G/roadmap
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 52 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Aryan primarily contributed to the Logseq project, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects. They addressed bug fixes, implemented new features, and improved user interface elements. Their work involved modifying CSS for UI enhancements, updating ClojureScript files, and adding new keyboard shortcuts and functionalities. They also made changes to the whiteboard feature.
knowledge-basecollaborationknowledge-graphlinkmarkdown
athensresearch/athens
May 2021 - Jan 2022
ATHENS IS NO LONGER BEING ACTIVELY MAINTAINED. Athens is an open-source, collaborative knowledge graph.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aryan primarily focused on improving the user interface and keybinding functionalities of the Athens application. They enhanced the left sidebar, implemented keybindings for various actions (graph, all pages, settings), and addressed cursor placement issues in text editing. Additionally, the user made updates to the graph view and adjusted the padding in the block embed view, contributing to a better user experience. Variable naming issues were also corrected in the listener files.
actively-maintainedknowledgeknowledge-baseathensknowledge-graph
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