Adithya Kethu
Technical founder and innovator with a passion for bringing products from 0 to 1.
Key Achievements
Product Innovation
I love bringing ideas to life. I challenged myself to build and launch two products in 14 days each: RantBox.app, which leverages AI to semantically match users based on anonymous thoughts, and CramCram.io, which parses hour-long videos into smart flashcards in under 5 seconds. Both scaled to hundreds of users organically. With Gnathic, I navigated the strict requirements of clinical compliance, while FYOP was designed to solve the real problem of campus isolation. Currently, I'm researching Bagels AI to bring that same rigor to AI infrastructure in regulated fields.
Startup Experience
At 20, I grew from an intern to Director of Technology at a DentalTech company. I led the technical strategy and shipped Gnathic and Pacified, two products that are now helping over 1,400 users.
Publications & Presentations
I've had the chance to present my ML research at the World Sleep Conference and Harvard's Global AI Dental Symposium. I also co-authored a peer-reviewed paper on using data science for optimal pacifier sizing—working alongside some incredible orthodontists and dentists.
Engineering at Scale
At Wayfair, I worked on Search & Recommendations, building backend systems for Big Data, ML, and SEO that served millions of users. One of my favorite projects was shipping a no-code ML tool that made it much faster for teams to deploy models.
Leadership & Research
As Tech Lead at BUILD UMass, I led a team of engineers and a PM to build an OCR inventory tool for a local business. At HackUMass, I engineered internal tools and mentored hackers. In the lab, I worked with Prof. Marco Serafini at the UMass DREAM Lab to optimize graph sampling for 'NextDoor' using deep learning, and analyzed human-subject trends in CS research with Prof. Ali Sarvghad at the UMass HCI-VS lab.