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Narayana Aaditya Ganeshkumar

Narayana Aaditya Ganeshkumar

Co-founder & CEO at Skillsync; creator of Ideal Gas

San Francisco, California
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Joined January 2026
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Summary

Founder focused on making developer skill discovery actionable — co-founded Skillsync to index and surface engineers' capabilities from their public code so hiring teams can search by what people have actually built. ycombinator+2
Combines product thinking with payments and infrastructure expertise — has written about payments UX and contributed to the Hyperswitch open-source payments project, reflecting an interest in improving payment systems and developer tooling. hyperswitch+1
Educated in both engineering and management — holds a bachelor's in Instrumentation & Control Engineering and a PGDM in Human Resource Management, giving a mix of technical foundation and people/product orientation. nitt+1
Active in open-source and community channels — maintains a public presence around Hyperswitch and related projects, shares long-form essays and product launches, and engages with developer communities. hyperswitch+2

Work

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Writing

Why I won't pay on your website

July 1, 2023

A long-form blog post analyzing checkout and payment UX patterns, highlighting common friction points and recommendations to improve conversion and user experience.

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The Inverse Conway Maneuver

June 1, 2023

An essay/wiki entry co-authored with Nishant Joshi discussing how team communication shapes software architecture and describing the evolution of the Hyperswitch architecture and team structure.

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Hobbies

Contributing to open-source projects and participating in developer communities. github+1