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Aditya Veena Maharaj

I'm a Computer Science Engineering undergrad who learns by building and shipping. I've taken Sathimate and Archai from an empty folder to production — frontend, backend, AI integration, deployment, and the Play Store release in between. I want to write software people actually use.

Greater Noida, UP B.Tech CSE, 2024–2028 4 things live
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Aditya Veena Maharaj

github.com/adiveena1

Currently shipping

Sathimate

Travel social platform · Web + Android

Live

Archai

AI image services platform

Live

QuickDials

Local service directory

Building

TheCEOTalk

Founder interview podcast

Publishing
About me

I'd rather ship it than read about it.

I started studying Computer Science at Sharda University in 2024, and within the first year I'd stopped waiting for a course to tell me what to build. Sathimate came out of a simple annoyance: planning a trip with friends means five apps and one person quietly paying for everything. So I built the thing that fixes it — trip planning, cost splitting, and an AI travel assistant, in one place.

Since then I've shipped Archai, an AI image services platform with a live in-browser demo, contributed frontend and deployment work to QuickDials, and started TheCEOTalk — a podcast where I interview founders, mostly because the fastest way to learn how companies get built is to ask people who did it.

What I'm looking for now: an internship or developer role on a team that ships to real users. I'm comfortable owning a feature end to end, and I'm at my best when there's a production bug at 1am and something has to actually work by morning.

Full-stack, end to end

React and Next.js on the front, Node and Firebase behind it, Vercel for deploys. I've owned every layer of two live products.

AI as a feature, not a demo

Gemini and Anthropic APIs wired into user-facing flows — an in-app travel assistant and a live demo chat, with prompt work behind both.

Founder's habits

Two ventures started from scratch. I scope, build, launch, and then deal with everything launching breaks.

Teams and stages

Core team for the Chorus event at Sharda two years running, hackathon and workshop regular, and a podcast host who has to make people comfortable on camera.

Toolkit

What I build with

Everything here is something I've used to ship or maintain a live product — not a list of tutorials I finished.

Languages

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JavaScriptTypeScript PythonJava

Frontend

02
React.jsNext.jsTailwind CSS HTMLCSSResponsive UI

Backend & data

03
Node.jsREST APIs Firebase AuthFirestoreFirebase Storage

AI integration

04
Anthropic APIGoogle Gemini API Chatbot integrationPrompt engineering

Tools & platforms

05
GitGitHubVS Code VercelPostman CapacitorAntigravity

How I work

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TeamworkCommunication Problem solvingShipping under deadline
Experience

The build log

Roles, ventures and the milestones that changed how I work.

Ongoing · set date

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

Sathimate — travel social platform

  • Designed and built the responsive frontend and a reusable component library used across the platform.
  • Shipped trip planning and cost-splitting features on Firebase Auth and Firestore.
  • Integrated a Gemini-powered travel assistant that answers destination and itinerary questions in-app.
  • Deployed and maintained on Vercel, debugging build and configuration failures in production.
  • Packaged the web app for Android with Capacitor and worked through the Play Store release process.
Ongoing · set date

Founder & Developer

Archai — AI image generation and editing services

  • Built the React platform and a distinctive black-and-gold design system from scratch.
  • Wired up the Anthropic API to power a live in-browser demo chat for first-time visitors.
  • Wrote dedicated service pages for image generation, photo editing and brand visuals.
Ongoing · set date

Frontend & Technical Contributor

QuickDials — local service directory

  • Contributed frontend implementation, debugging and deployment work to a live directory product.
Ongoing · set date

Founder & Host

TheCEOTalk — YouTube podcast with founders and CEOs

  • Own the concept, production setup, scripting and publishing end to end.
2025 & 2026

Core Team Member

Chorus Event, Fine Arts Club — Sharda University

  • Part of the organising core for two consecutive editions of the university's Chorus event.
Selected work

Things I've built and shipped

Four products, all live or in active development. Every one of them taught me something a lecture couldn't.

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Sathimate

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

A travel social platform for planning group trips and splitting what they cost, with an AI assistant that answers destination and itinerary questions without leaving the app.

  • Group trip planning with shared itineraries
  • Cost splitting across everyone on the trip
  • Gemini-powered in-app travel assistant
  • Android build shipped through Capacitor
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind FirebaseGemini APICapacitor
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Archai

Founder & Developer

An AI image generation and editing services platform, built around a black-and-gold design system and a demo you can talk to before you sign up for anything.

  • Live in-browser AI demo chat on the Anthropic API
  • Service pages for generation, photo editing, brand visuals
  • Custom black-and-gold design system
ReactAnthropic APIDesign system
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QuickDials

Frontend & Technical Contributor

A local service directory that puts the right number in front of people quickly. I work on the frontend, chase down bugs, and handle deployment.

  • Frontend implementation on a live product
  • Debugging and production deployment
ReactFrontendDeployment
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TheCEOTalk

Founder & Host

A YouTube podcast where I interview founders and CEOs about how they actually built the thing. I run concept, production, scripting and publishing myself.

  • Full production pipeline, solo-run
  • Interview scripting and guest research
PodcastProductionInterviewing
Startup journey

Why Sathimate exists

Every group trip has the same two problems: nobody agrees on a plan, and one person ends up covering the bill and chasing everyone for weeks. Sathimate was built to remove both.

Vision

Travel planning that feels like a group chat, not a spreadsheet — with the money already sorted out.

Mission

Give small groups one place to plan a trip, split what it costs, and get real answers about where they're going.

The problem

Plans scattered across chats and notes, unequal spending nobody wants to bring up, and generic travel advice that doesn't fit the trip you're actually taking.

Phase 01 — Foundation

Get the core loop working

Auth, trip creation, shared itineraries and cost splitting on Firebase. The bar was simple: could a real group plan a real trip in it, start to finish.

Phase 02 — Intelligence

Add the travel assistant

Integrated Gemini so destination and itinerary questions get answered inside the app instead of sending people to a search tab.

Phase 03 — Reach

Ship it to phones

Packaged the web app for Android with Capacitor and went through the Play Store release process — store listing, signing, review and all.

Phase 04 — Next

Growth and retention

Deeper social features, smarter budget splitting, and getting the app in front of student travel groups first — the people who feel this problem hardest.

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Education

Where the fundamentals come from

2024 – 2028

B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering

Sharda University · Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh

  • Coursework across data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, operating systems and web technologies.
  • Core team member of the Chorus event with the Fine Arts Club, 2025 and 2026.
  • Built and launched two products alongside the degree rather than after it.
2023

Senior Secondary, Class XII

State Board · 74%

2020

Secondary, Class X

State Board · 76.6%

Workshops & recognition

Learning outside the syllabus

Hackathons, workshops and events I've taken part in. Add the certificate link to any card and the button goes live.

2k25 & 2k26

Core Team Member — Chorus

Fine Arts Club, Sharda University

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Participant

CAD Hackathon

Competitive problem solving under time pressure, in a team

View certificate
Workshop

Flutter Development Workshop

Cross-platform mobile development fundamentals

View certificate
Attended

TEDx Sharda University

Attended and spoke directly with the speakers

Writing

Notes from building

What broke, what I'd do differently, and the parts nobody documents. Drafts below — publish them when you're ready.

Making an LLM useful inside a travel app

Wiring Gemini into Sathimate was the easy half. Getting answers that respect the trip someone already planned — that took prompt work, context passing, and a lot of deleting.

Why I gave Archai a black-and-gold design system

Picking a visual identity before writing components sounds backwards. It saved me weeks, and it's the reason the product looks like one thing instead of five.

Firebase for cost splitting: what I got wrong first

Splitting money between people is a data modelling problem long before it's a UI problem. My first Firestore schema fell apart the moment someone left a trip.

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Testimonials

What people I've worked with say

Contact

Let's build something.

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