hey, i am riza.

i'm a founder, developer, and high school student.

right now, i'm working on computer vision, edge ai, and agentic interfaces.

i wrote my first line of code at 9 through minecraft plugins. since then, the loop has stayed simple: build fast, learn in public, stay around sharper people, and keep raising the bar.

book a 30-minute meeting.

what i've been up to:

selected for founders, inc. canopy s26
built a computer vision coin-sorting pipeline for the government of kerala when i was 14
selected as a top100coders fellow from 5,000+ applicants, finished in the top 15, and received a personal award from the CM of kerala through KSUM
attended yc startup school, met yc partners jared friedman and jon xu over dinner, and pitched my startup to them
received an official ministerial commendation from the government of kerala
won 8 of the 10 hackathons i participated in, including the latest openai hackathon
qualified for stage 2 of the international olympiad in ai (INAIO)
founded zerograd, a 500+ builder community where people level up by shipping code
started my school's coding and robotics club and taught 400+ students
placed 1st at digital fest in all 4 years i participated, then placed 1st nationally and 2nd internationally in the uae, top 0.08% of 2,500+ participants, with the kerala-to-dubai trip fully sponsored
keynoted IRCC at 14 alongside nambi narayanan (ex-ISRO)
reached the toastmasters international finals

press from when i was 14:

before software took over completely, i was deep into football, building small games, shipping discord bots, selling little projects, and somehow turning parts of that into robux. these days, most of my energy goes into computer vision, edge ai, embedded systems, and agentic interfaces.

building something ambitious? for serious conversations, reach me through email. for casual chats, dm me on twitter, discord, or linkedin.