Nand Vinchhi

Nand Vinchhi is a co-founder and CTO of Axal, a Y Combinator (W25) backed startup specializing in using AI to modernize legacy codebases. The company aims to simplify the process of understanding and updating outdated software, with a strategic focus on enterprise-level companies and government systems to address technical debt. ycombinator+2

He is an accomplished software engineer with experience at Uptycs and Airchat, and was a Technology Lead for Amazon Project Kuiper through the App Dev Club. His technical skills include Python, Node.js, React, Julia, Flask, Keras, Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, OpenCV, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and React Native. devpost+1

Nand has a strong academic background in Computer Science, currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science at the University of Maryland and having conducted research at MIT CSAIL. He is a co-author on the academic paper "NeuralPDE: Automating physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) with error approximations," published in arXiv in 2021. ycombinator+2

He is a prolific hackathon participant and winner, noted as a "30x Hackathon Winner" on his Y Combinator profile. Specific wins include 1st place at the Auth0 Hackathon 2020 and a prize for the "Realert" emergency response system. ycombinator+2