Adithya Kethu

Currently building Bagels ai to tackle the $154B problem of workplace loneliness and its expensive friends: low retention, stagnant growth, and a culture that makes you hate mondays. Our autonomous AI agents help foster genuine connections in medium to large organizations. It's a big challenge, but I'm making steady progress with our MVP and am in talks with some cool company leaders. I'm locked in on building something that's truly helpful and worthy of becoming a 🦄.

I love bringing ideas to life, sometimes a bit too quickly (ask me about my 14-day product launches for RantBox and CramCram). My work on the Gnathic app, which provides clinical insights from images, taught me invaluable lessons about safety, privacy, and the importance of getting it right in sensitive domains.

My journey at a 20-year-old DentalTech company started as a sophomore intern and, to my surprise, led to becoming the Director of Technology. I had the privilege of leading the ML architecture for Gnathic and Pacified, which now support over 1,400 users. It was a crash course in balancing rigorous science with the practical art of shipping.

It was an honor to have my ML research accepted and presented at the World Sleep Conference, and later considered for Harvard's Global AI Dental Symposium. These experiences were a powerful reminder of the importance of bridging the gap between academic research and building reliable, user-friendly products.

I joined Wayfair as a Level II Software Engineer, skipping the traditional entry-level route. Working on services that handled millions of customer interactions gave me a deep appreciation for the unsung heroes of software: observability, graceful degradation, and the power of a good design review. It was like seeing the Matrix of a massive e-commerce platform.

Somehow, I managed a 4.0 GPA while building products on the side. When I'm not coding, you can find me practicing Taekwondo (I'm a black belt), teaching yoga, or trying not to fall off a horse. These disciplines keep me grounded and remind me that resilience and focus are muscles that need constant training, both in and out of the office.