Pavitra Kushwaha

founder • builder • researcher @ IIT Kanpur

Hey there!

I'm Pavitra Kushwaha, a builder, wannabeStanfordguy, and currently at DPS.

I'm obsessed with understanding intelligence, how to build it, accelerate it, and eventually, define it.Founder of and byteforge. My ultimate goal is to build something that dents Silicon Valley.

For fun, I break APIs, win hackathons, write about 2045, do research on the Simulation Hypothesis, and go on long bike rides.

Research reference: Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument paper

Now

Building ORCA — agentic AI for Android via WhatsApp/Telegram

Researching MPC/Cryptography with Prof. Adithya Vadapalli @ IIT Kanpur

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byteforge. · PaXus · Execron · ORBIS

Here are the coolest things I've done:

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#1 across 3,500+, India's Top Young Founder of the Year '26 at Uniform2Unicorn won ₹1,00,000 + ₹10,00,000 in credits & an exclusive dinner with Iqlipse Nova (special thanks to the team: Aditya Bhatia & Tanish Anand)
Research Fellow at IIT Kanpur, working under Prof. Adithya Vadapalli (CSE Dept.).
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Got selected for Y Combinator Startup School India (6% acceptance rate).
Ranked in the top 20 builders across India out of 20,000+ applicants at VIBECON.
Interviewed Mukund Jha (Co-founder, Emergent Labs) and Jared Friedman (Partner, Y Combinator) @ VIBECON.
Independently identified a significant security vulnerability in a major AI platform (happy to discuss privately)
Discovered a pricing logic vulnerability in a major quick-commerce platform's API
Won 15+ hackathons in the last 2 months.
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Founded byteforge. One of North India's largest tech communities (4,500+ members).
Former Content Analyst at KuKu TV.
Published a research paper on Synthetic Intelligence at 16.