Adithya Anilkumar
Tinkerer who builds teams, and products that millions of people use.
I'm Adithya, though most people call me Adi. Only my mom really calls me Adithya. I'm a maker from Kochi, my hometown, and I've been taking things apart since I was six. I've built a little of everything, from software running on millions of scooters, consumer and business apps, robots and a neobank, to an automated waste segregation system for a whole city. Know more about me →
These days I'm building 
DataWyse, to help small and medium businesses save money every day. I've also founded two startups of my own, and I learned a lot from both. Lessons here →
Kid with a screwdriver: cricket and badminton after school, 2012 music on repeat, songs recorded on a Walkman, GTA on the PSP, kilometres on a bike, robots in cookie boxes, Arch Linux by 16, a bin that sorts its own waste.
College, mostly outside class: worked at Clubfolio and then Sonio, based out of Paris (later acquired by Samsung), freelanced on the side, built the college's entrepreneurship cell, brought Google to campus, and launched DevQuest.
Ather Energy: the Bluetooth link between scooter and phone, R&D on smart helmets, ADAS and a HUD, and one wheelie.
Hanomi: first hire at a San Francisco startup building agentic CAD. Idea to production in under six months.
DataWyse: back home in Kochi, helping small and medium businesses save money. Writing it all down along the way.
Too many rabbit holes, paired with a cup of black tea.
Building
Products, hardware, software, and the bit in between. Bluetooth stacks, IoT bins, and a home server in Kochi I don't trust anyone else with.
Music
R&B, indie, jazz, pop, house, ambient, and almost every other genre. Music is music, just like art.
Thought
Optimistic nihilist on most days, existentialist on the others. Ponderings: Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, the Upanishads, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and quantum weirdness. Might just be 42, who knows.
Watches
Mechanical, classic, with a story attached. A vintage 1980s Seiko and a Timex Marlin.
Cars
Good manuals, sleeper builds, and Porsche design and engineering. I want to own a Supra someday. For now I daily-drive an 18-year-old Alto.
Kochi
Home for almost my whole life. Backwaters, beaches, hill stations a drive away, and good parotta and beef. A modern city that's still easy to escape from.