Aryan Sawhney
Co-Founder CTO at Narrative (YC F25)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAryan Sawhney is Co-Founder and CTO at Narrative (YC F25), building an AI video editor for professionals with four years of hands-on product and engineering experience. He combines full‑stack development chops—frontend and backend—with practical ML product work to ship polished editor features and workflows. An active open-source contributor and maker of Logseq plugins, he has improved the prominent Logseq codebase (ClojureScript, CSS, UI/whiteboard) and enhanced UX and keybindings in Athens. Prior roles include first engineer at RevisionDojo (YC F24), founder of Gigi AI, internships and research at Brown, reflecting both startup grit and academic rigor. He leverages a rare mix of behavioral decision science and engineering to inform UX decisions, which shows up in keyboard‑driven interfaces and attention to editor ergonomics.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & Behavioral Science, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & Behavioral Science, 4.0/4.0 at Brown UniversitySingapore American SchoolStamford American International School, SingaporeAmerican International School of GuangzhouInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Dubai International AcademyOberoi International School
Github Skills (24)
clojure-cli10
note-pad10
css10
user-interface10
userinterface10
clojure10
cl10
front-end-development10
frontend-development10
keybindings10
react10
clojurescript10
notepad10
javascript9
javascripts9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
logseq/logseq
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: http://trello.com/b/8txSM12G/roadmap
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 52 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Aryan primarily contributed to the Logseq project, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects. They addressed bug fixes, implemented new features, and improved user interface elements. Their work involved modifying CSS for UI enhancements, updating ClojureScript files, and adding new keyboard shortcuts and functionalities. They also made changes to the whiteboard feature.
knowledge-basecollaborationknowledge-graphlinkmarkdown
athensresearch/athens
May 2021 - Jan 2022
ATHENS IS NO LONGER BEING ACTIVELY MAINTAINED. Athens is an open-source, collaborative knowledge graph.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aryan primarily focused on improving the user interface and keybinding functionalities of the Athens application. They enhanced the left sidebar, implemented keybindings for various actions (graph, all pages, settings), and addressed cursor placement issues in text editing. Additionally, the user made updates to the graph view and adjusted the padding in the block embed view, contributing to a better user experience. Variable naming issues were also corrected in the listener files.
actively-maintainedknowledgeknowledge-baseathensknowledge-graph
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