Ashwin Ramachandran

Founder & startup operator: Ashwin co‑founded ContextFort (YC S25), an AI startup focused on automating architectural and structural drawing reviews for construction contractors. The company emphasizes detecting missing/conflicting dimensions, overlay mismatches across versions, and auto‑drafting RFIs to reduce costly rework and accelerate projects. ycombinator+1

Graduate researcher in ML and graph neural networks: Ashwin is an MS student in Computer Science at UC San Diego (OpenReview profile) and is an author on a NeurIPS poster describing IsoNet++, an early‑interaction GNN for subgraph matching and graph retrieval. This indicates active research work at the intersection of GNNs and retrieval. openreview+2

Practical software engineering and product experience: While an undergraduate at IIT Bombay, Ashwin completed a software engineering internship at Google (summer internship) and contributed to campus engineering communities (DevCom) and hands‑on robotics (IIT Bombay Mars Rover Team). His public personal site and GitHub show a mix of research and engineering projects. github+2