Abhi Arya

Software engineer interested in AI/Agent Systems and Model Development, Real-Time Infrastructure, Embeddings and LLM Context/Data Retrieval, Autonomous Systems, and Human Experience with AI (and also coffee...)

I'm a student at the University of California, Irvine, where I'm pursing Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. I'm currently building Opennote, redesigning how education mixes with AI.

Experience

• Opennote (YC S25): co-founder and cto, responsible for ai systems, infrastructure, and platform development (opennote.com)
• Browserbase: early engineering for director
• NASA Johnson Space Center: flight and ground systems automation software for the gateway vsm

Links

• Polaris: An Assistance System for Extravehicular Activities: designed AR autonomous systems software for astronaut EVAs and raised $8k in research funding
• Runway: built a end-to-end platform for datasets, fine-tuning, and deployment of AI models, entirely democratized and open-access.
• ZotConnect: built internal linkedin for university students + professors, won my first hackathon having learned web dev a week prior

Other Things

• I make films! Recently I made this film and this video for Opennote with my Sony A6400
• Currently on repeat: Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac, 1977) and The Dress (Dijon, 2021)
• I've flown a plane multiple times (specifically a Cessna 172)