Based in Berkeley, CA. I split my time between building, founding, and researching. I write occasionally.

I'm a CS student at UC Berkeley, currently doing ML research at the University of Louisville on explainable AI, focusing on why vision models confuse similar-looking things, like a 3 and an 8.

I started coding in middle school, trying to rebuild Chrome's dinosaur game in JavaScript. It didn't work well, but it was enough to get me hooked.

Years later I noticed schools don't teach financial literacy, so I built ProfitQuest to teach it in classrooms directly, which won the Congressional App Challenge. That led to MoneyBot, a separate, funded startup doing the same at a bigger scale, where I worked as a founding engineer.

If you're building something interesting, reach me at suriyansn5@gmail.com.