Guru Jayaprakash
I build and operate early-stage products where technical rigor meets real-world systems.
Co-founder of an AI voice platform for live meetings. Founder of a $75K-funded urban agriculture nonprofit.
Product • Engineering • Systems • Execution
General Engineering & Aerospace Engineering, Montgomery College. Poolesville HS, Independent Studies Magnet, PLTW Engineering.
Proof of Execution
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AI voice agents embedded inside live meetings.
Problem: Meetings lose context, ownership, and decisions in real time.
Building: Real-time voice diarization and actionable feedback.
Role: Co-founder — product, early engineering, go-to-market.
Status: Active development, early users.
Rooted Together
Youth-led urban agriculture nonprofit.
- Founded and scaled from zero
- Raised $75K in funding and in-kind resources
- Designed and deployed hydroponic systems
- Led multi-partner community initiatives
Outcome: Built systems that operate without founder dependency.
Posturly
Wearable posture-correction device.
- Hardware + software prototype
- User testing and iteration
- DECA State Finalist (2nd place)
Lesson: Hardware-market fit is unforgiving.
Research & Applied Systems
Technical research that shaped how I approach rigor, validation, and system design.
Functional Genomics & Cancer Metabolism Research
University of Pittsburgh — Neurosurgery Department
- Wet-lab and data-driven research on methionine metabolism in pediatric brain cancers
- Designed experiments under strict constraints and validation requirements
Takeaway: First-principles thinking and signal-over-noise discipline.
Interested in problems where rigor matters — from cancer biology to real-time AI systems.
How I Build
- • Optimize for leverage, not optics
- • Ship imperfect systems over perfect slides
- • Care about feedback loops, not vanity metrics
- • Treat startups as systems, not ideas
Notes
Selected writing:
- • Why real-time AI in meetings is harder than people think
- • What building a nonprofit taught me about startups
- • Why most student startups fail quietly
If you're building something interesting or thinking about systems, reach out.