I am Sai Amartya, 17. Software Engineer Intern at Aside (YC F25), an AI browser built to help people research and take action across the web, and co-founder of High Agency, where teens build what school does not teach.
An intern seat at a Y Combinator company, and a company of my own.
Software Engineer Intern
An AI browser built to help people research and take action across the web, backed by Y Combinator (F25).
I got the internship the long way around: I saw what the community kept asking for, built a Telegram bridge and Mini App for Aside on my own, and open sourced it. The work came first, the role came after.
Co-Founder
For teens who would rather build than wait.
High Agency is a platform and intensive immersion program for ambitious teens aged 13 to 19. Accountability squads, real world milestones, and live mentors. You do not graduate by sitting through it, you prove it by shipping real things.
At the 2026 FBLA National Leadership Conference in San Antonio I placed 4th in the nation in Organizational Leadership and walked off with FBLA glass.
Getting there meant finishing top four in Canada at Canadian nationals first, then representing Canada on the NLC stage. It was also my first solo trip.
FBLA Glass Award
Every line item earned, none of it inherited. Keep the paper. You'll want it later.
SAI AMARTYA B.L.
Proof-of-work receipt
KITCHENER, ON ✦ NO REFUNDS ON EFFORT
** Leadership **
Organizational Leadership, national glass
Organizational Leadership, qualified for NLC
** Computing **
Computer Sciences category
Cameron Robotics, wrote the control software
Weekend builds that placed
Canadian Computing Contest, 1st at school
** Mathematics **
Worldwide, 2nd at school
Top 25%, University of Waterloo
** Entrepreneurship **
Organic impressions, profitable stores
Canadian Youth Club Summit
** Academics **
Cameron Heights C.I.
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Shipping at a YC company, co-founding my own, competing, and coaching kids. Every role compounds.
Aside (YC F25)
Software engineering intern at Aside (YC F25), an AI browser built to help people research and take action across the web, backed by Y Combinator. I joined after independently building and open sourcing a Telegram bridge and Mini App for Aside.
High Agency
Co-founding a platform and intensive immersion program for ambitious teens aged 13 to 19. Accountability squads, live mentors, and real world milestones, where progress is demonstrated by shipping real things.
Cameron Robotics
Leading software for a competitive robotics team. Wrote the robot control software and contributed to electrical work for the first place finish at MechMania, University of Waterloo.
Future Business Leaders of America
Placed 4th in the nation in Organizational Leadership at the FBLA National Leadership Conference and earned FBLA glass, after qualifying top four at Canadian nationals and representing Canada at NLC.
TidalTasks AI
Co-founded an agentic AI productivity platform for students and launched it to hundreds of users. Led full stack development, technical architecture, and AI integration.
Canary OS
Technical founder working on on-device ML scam detection. Integrated a MobileBERT classifier into React Native for real time, privacy first protection that runs offline.
STEAM IC
Placed 2nd at STEAM ICAC 2026 in Computer Sciences for a saliency aware video compression pipeline reaching 4 to 6x improvement over H.265 on surveillance footage and 30x over raw footage.
Independent
Built and ran profitable Shopify brands end to end, from sourcing and supply chain to creative, generating tens of millions of organic social views.
Start2Finish Online
Coached students in grades 1 to 3 in literacy and physical fitness, running weekly sessions and building simple frameworks young learners could stick with.
LAUNCH Waterloo
Mentored children in STEAM, guiding them through hardware and software programming fundamentals and their first working builds.
Everything I have shipped, still running or long since retired.
Your Mac's AI agent, in your pocket
An open source bridge and Telegram Mini App giving two way access to an AI agent running on your Mac. Mobile interface, live messaging, and approval gates before the agent acts. Building it is how I ended up interning at Aside.
4 to 6x better than H.265 on surveillance footage
A perceptually guided compression pipeline that segments foreground from background so bits go where the eye actually looks. 4 to 6x improvement over H.265 on surveillance footage and 30x over raw.
Agentic productivity for students
Agentic AI scheduling and time management built for students, launched to hundreds of users. Co-founded and led full stack development. Mar 2025 to Jul 2026.
On-device realtime ML scam detection
A MobileBERT text classifier running inside React Native for real time, offline scam detection, so nothing leaves the device. Nov 2025 to Jun 2026.
Food rescue logistics
Dual engine automated logistics platform for food rescue, with inventory agents that read barcodes and photos to triage stock and route volunteers.
Operational excellence
Profitable Shopify brands built and run solo since grade 9, from supply chain to creative, generating tens of millions of organic social views.
CNN image processing
A convolutional neural network that colourizes black and white photographs, built as a final project for an introductory computer science course.
Full-stack portfolio
The page you are reading. Next.js and Tailwind, with a Golden Hour design system of liquid glass, drifting clouds, and a receipt that prints the proof.