Building since grade 3. Some of it even works.
I'm a 20-year-old builder from Kochi, based in Chennai. I'm doing a B.Tech in Computer Science at VIT Chennai (graduating 2027) and a concurrent BS in Data Science at IIT Madras (graduating 2028) — two degrees at once sounded easier than it actually is. I've been filing patents, shipping products, and soldering things I shouldn't have for about twelve years. Right now I'm heads-down on LexAI — an AI platform for Indian corporate law firms — and running Laundroswipe, a campus laundry marketplace serving 600+ students at VIT.
| LexAI — AI for Indian corporate law | Laundroswipe — campus laundry |
|---|---|
| Contract-review automation for firms with 50+ lawyers. Fine-tuned LLMs for Indian legal context. I've had direct conversations with managing partners at three of India's top corporate law firms — facilitated by a personal intro from the former Chief Justice of India. Pivoted from legal research → contract review based on what they actually wanted. | On-demand laundry marketplace live at VIT Chennai. 600+ active student users, 2 vendor partnerships, 5-person ops team. Shipped end-to-end: auth, payments, order state, vendor dashboard. Native iOS + Android next. |
Python · FastAPI · LangChain · RAG · Vector DBs |
Next.js · React · Node.js · Supabase · Vercel |
| Active build + customer discovery · Started Dec 2025 | Live since March 15, 2025 |
Innaya Nutri Foods Pvt Ltd (co-founded March 2024) — registered Indian private limited, healthy packaged-food category. Flagship brand: Pan 8. I talked a manufacturer with a stated 50,000-unit MOQ into a 50-unit first run, so we launched with roughly zero upfront capital. Turns out "minimum" is a negotiation.
- Patent-published — Indian Patent Application 202641022498, Smart Mirror: AI Skincare + Health + IoT Automation. YOLOv8 acne detection, CV-based vital-signs monitoring, voice-controlled home automation. Filed age 19, published 2024. Won 2nd Prize, VIT IAIC 2025. (Application — not a granted patent yet. I'd rather be accurate.)
- Harvard HPAIR 2026 Delegate — selected for the Asia conference.
- TCS AI Internship — Trivandrum, Jun–Jul 2024. Built a CV + reinforcement-learning object-detection game for specially-abled children at a partner orphanage. Certificate of outstanding performance.
- Multimodal MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation (2024) — U-Net across T1, T2, FLAIR sequences with a custom preprocessing and augmentation pipeline. Python, TensorFlow, Keras.
- Roborave India, 2018 — 3rd place, national. Qualified for the international round. Didn't go — 12-year-old me's funding situation never quite closed.
- IIM Udaipur Summer Program, 2025 · AWS Solutions Architect Associate · CFA Level 1 candidate (Aug 2026).
Building since grade 3 — click to expand the full arc
| Year | Age | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | First robots and circuits. Grade 3. |
| 2018 | 12 | Arduino + Lego Mindstorms era. |
| 2018 | 12 | 3rd place, Roborave India (national). Qualified for international — see above. |
| 2018 | 13 | Co-founded RAYBK Media. Small web/social agency. 30+ client projects over 6 years. Paused new intake in 2024. |
| 2020 | 15 | Started Mortal Magazine during lockdown. 6 issues, ~$440 in ad revenue, paused for board exams. A student magazine, not a media empire. |
| 2023 | 18 | Started B.Tech Computer Science at VIT Chennai. |
| 2024 | 19 | Filed the Smart Mirror patent · Enrolled in concurrent BS DS at IIT Madras · TCS AI Internship · Co-founded Innaya Nutri Foods. |
| 2025 | 20 | Launched Laundroswipe (600+ users) · 2nd Prize, VIT IAIC · Summer Program at IIM Udaipur. |
| 2025 | 20 | December — started LexAI. |
| 2026 | 20 | Harvard HPAIR Delegate · CFA Level 1 candidate (Aug 2026 sitting) · AWS Solutions Architect Associate. |
I only list what I've actually shipped with.
Languages — Python · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL AI / ML — PyTorch · TensorFlow · Keras · YOLOv8 · OpenCV · U-Net · LangChain · RAG · Vector Databases Full-stack — React · Next.js · React Native · Node.js · FastAPI · Express Databases — PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · Supabase Infra — AWS · Docker · Vercel · Cloudflare · Git Hardware — Raspberry Pi · Arduino
Currently learning / applying — Core Java (classroom), Elasticsearch (tutorial), Microservices architecture (wiring into the Laundroswipe backend right now).
Smaller bets, mentioned for honesty, not hype:
- BreezyClaw — self-hosted OpenClaw deployment tool, 3-step setup in under 2 minutes. Demo stage — works on my machine, may break on yours. breezyclaw.com
- PropFlow — landlord rental tracker, MVP.
- Keep Boxing — Porter-style logistics for Malaysian SMEs, research phase.
- BookOurSpot — consumer reservations for Malaysia, concept.
- Email — rahulbabuk05@gmail.com · founders/investors, use subject line "LexAI Intro" or "Laundroswipe" and you'll jump the queue.
- LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/rahulbabuk
- X — @itsrahulbk
- Personal site — rahulbk.com