Pavan Kumar

I moved to the US in 2022, midway through high school. Right now I’m building Clean, the first self-learning IDE that learns from your team the more you ship. Before this I interned at Cisco designing AI-driven hospital network security with ThousandEyes, and at UCSD’s Computational Neurology Center, where I lead computer vision work for dystonia detection and am co-authoring a paper.

I post on LinkedIn every day and haven’t stopped for about 8 months now. I love hackathons more than I probably should. I’ve won 7 of them, 5 inside a single 5-day stretch, including NexHacks, SDx, and two awards at the AWS re:Invent AI Agents Hackathon. I also competed in VEX Robotics internationally from 2022 to 2025, finishing in the top 250 out of 24,000+ teams, which is still one of my favorite things I’ve done.

I’m at UC San Diego studying Computer Engineering, but I drive up to SF every chance I get. During breaks I basically live there. If you want to follow along or say hi, I’m on LinkedIn and X.