Class 12, Maths, Physics and Chemistry, Resonance Global Campus
Heading into
An undergraduate degree in AI and machine learning, from 2027
Building
Tools for a PG, a clinic, our family shop and kirana shops
Outside that
50 Robin Hood Army drives, community events, the gym
Hi, I'm Hariswara.
I'm in Class 12 in Hyderabad, and I learn best when there is something real on the other end: a problem someone actually has, and something I can build to find out whether my idea holds up.
Technology became interesting to me when I realised I could take an idea and turn it into something people could use. Many of the apps I used every day felt like black boxes. Building my own showed me they are really a set of parts working together: an interface, a database, logins, APIs, messages going out on WhatsApp. Working out how those pieces connect is still my favourite part.
I rarely start a project knowing everything it needs. I start with the problem, find out what I have to learn, try things, break them and fix them. That is how I picked up Python, web apps, databases, AI APIs and automation, and it is why I want to study AI and machine learning properly from 2027.
Outside of building, I spent Classes 5 to 10 at a residential school where I played nearly every sport on offer. I've done 50 drives with the Robin Hood Army, and I volunteer at community events around the city.
most of what I know, I learned because something broke
Over the last year: 5 projects in real use, 3 internships in very different fields, 50 Robin Hood Army drives, and 96.8% in Class 11.
Plus a place in The Knowledge Society's virtual programme, earned with an app I built and pitched in two days.
A website is only one piece.
Building for real businesses changed how I look at technology. A website stopped being a page to design. I started asking how people find it, how they get in touch, where the information lives, and which small jobs could run on their own.
Each project added another part of that picture. Pick one to see which parts it needed.
01How do people find it?
02How do they get in touch?
03Where does the information live?
04What runs behind the scenes?
Tap any partto see where I used it and what it does.
Things I've built, and what they taught me
I don't only build for practice. I like finding out whether something can actually be useful to someone. Most of these started with a problem I could see around me, several things I didn't know yet, and a lot of testing.
How I build. I use AI coding assistants, mostly Claude, to write much of the code, and I'm open about that. Deciding what to build, how the pieces connect, testing it with the people who use it and fixing what breaks is my part, and it's where most of my learning has come from.
Family shopNewest
Vedasri Traders
Our family runs a kirana shop in Gachibowli. Customers nearby are used to ordering from quick-commerce apps, so I wanted our shop to offer that too, without losing what a neighbourhood store does well: credit for regulars and bulk prices for businesses.
Shopping list scanner: photograph a handwritten list and it fills the cart
AI Chef plans a dish using only what's in stock right now
One app, two sides: a customer shop and an admin back office
What I learnedTwo kinds of users in one app meant learning how row-level security keeps data apart. A security audit then showed me where I had got it wrong the first time, and I fixed it.
My father runs Bhagya Lakshmi PG, homes for women with more than 250 beds across three properties. Registers weren't keeping up and he was looking at paid rental software, so I built our own, shaped around how the PG actually works.
Occupancy, collections and dues across every property
OCR that reads handwritten rent notes and new-tenant forms
Messages to tenants through the Meta WhatsApp API, and branded receipts on demand
What I learnedSoftware for a real business has to fit how people already work. Much of the PG still runs on paper, so the app learned to read it instead of asking everyone to type.
React + TypeScriptSupabaseGemini APIMeta WhatsApp API
Private and login only, so there's no public link.
A polyclinic in Shilpa Hills under Dr. Bhaskar Reddy needed to be found and trusted online. I built its website, then got involved in the rest of its digital start: how the clinic should present itself, its Instagram presence, and ideas for its first posts.
Three-step booking that becomes a ready-to-send WhatsApp message
An offline AI receptionist that answers common questions without any external API
Helped set up the clinic's Instagram and plan its content, using ChatGPT to draft and test ideas
What I learnedA clinic doesn't just need a website. It needs patients to find it, trust it and reach it. That question pulled me into social media, content and how one tool hands people on to the next.
Most people find a PG through word of mouth or listing apps. I wanted prospective residents to understand our three homes in Kondapur, Madhapur and HITEC City before they ever called: the rooms, the food, the facilities, and how to get in touch.
A page for each home, plus facilities, food menu and gallery
A three-step enquiry form that hands the details to WhatsApp
Meta and ChatGPT ads that I run for the PG, pointing people to the site
What I learnedGetting noticed is its own problem. A good website still needs ads, clear information and a quick way to reply, all working together.
Static siteCustom domainLocal AI assistantMeta ads
Most kirana shops keep customer credit in a paper notebook, because writing is faster than typing. UdhaarAI lets them keep writing. At the end of the day the shopkeeper photographs the page, and every customer's account updates in one click.
Reads handwritten Hindi, Telugu and English, with a review screen for unsure entries
Customer ledgers, payments, reminders and profit analytics
A no-sign-up demo with a sample shop
What I learnedWhere AI helps and where plain code is better. I used Gemini only to read handwriting and wrote the rest as rules I could test, 224 automated tests by the end.
Selected for The Knowledge Society. UdhaarAI was my entry to the TKS Prompt to Product challenge. It took me to the interview round and earned me a place in the TKS virtual programme.
Small businesses around me still run on handwriting: credit notebooks, rent slips, shopping lists. Instead of asking people to stop writing, three of my products read the paper for them.
Ramesh, rice + oil, ₹450
customerRamesh
credit₹450
ledgerupdated
UdhaarAI
Kirana credit notebooks in Hindi, Telugu or English
Room 204, rent paid, ₹8,500
room204
rent₹8,500
receiptsent on WhatsApp
PG Management App
Handwritten rent notes and new-tenant forms
2 kg atta, 1 L oil, toor dal
matched3 products
unsure?shows options
cartready
Vedasri Traders
Customers' handwritten shopping lists
Academics
Marks aren't the whole story, but they are part of it. School has always been something I take seriously, and it gives me the maths and science I lean on when I build.
96.8%
Class 11, Resonance Global Campus 455 out of 470
Maths IA74/75
Maths IB75/75
Physics60/60
Chemistry60/60
English91/100
French95/100
Class 10, Bhashyam Blooms: 81.6%MPC stream
Where I've studied
New Bloom SchoolNursery
Gowtham Model SchoolUKG to Class 1
Jain Heritage Cambridge School, KondapurClasses 2 to 4
Bhashyam Blooms School, MaheswaramClasses 5 to 10, residential
Resonance Global Campus, HyderabadClasses 11 and 12, now
The archive
The physical things I've kept: trophies, magnets, letters and certificates. The newest one is first. After that they run in the order I got them, from Grade 8 at Bhashyam Blooms to this year.
Latest
Selective programme · Learning community
Selected for TKS 2026-2027
The Knowledge Society accepted me into its 2026-2027 cohort, a programme for teenagers who want to work on hard problems. I applied through its Prompt to Product challenge, building and pitching UdhaarAI in two days, and went on to the interview round.
After exams, Bhashyam Blooms gave a small fridge magnet to every student who finished in the top five of the class. I kept getting them from the end of Grade 8 through Grade 10. No single one matters much. What matters is that they kept coming.
Six magnets, five designs. Tap one for a closer look.
March 2026Learning
AI + Python
Python Using AI Workshop
A workshop by AI for Techies on using AI to write Python, debug it, and build interactive visualisations. What I took away was less about any one trick and more about choosing tools on purpose: different AI tools suit different jobs, and I started paying attention to when ChatGPT or Claude is the better fit. One step in my ongoing experimenting with AI, not a claim to expertise.
AI for Techies
Issued 22 March 2026
Certificate of completion
September 2026Community
Pink Power Run 2026, 5K finisher
A breast cancer awareness run on Necklace Road, a month after I volunteered on the route of another city run. The certificate and medal are with the rest of my community work.
Sat it alongside students from schools across India and abroad.
The paper trail
Certificates from Class 3 to Class 9: Olympiads, essays, abacus contests and my first attempt at code. Swipe through, and tap any to open it.
Academics, 2nd in classCertificate of Appreciation, Class 81st place, Reflective EssayAfter our visit to a chip manufacturing unit at Tukkuguda1st place, Slogan WritingIndependence Day competitions, Class 8News in EducationOur team answered the most daily newspaper questions, Class 71st prize, Hand Print design75th Independence Day celebrations, Class 7NSO 2023-24International rank 900NSO 2022-23School rank 7IMO 2023-24Class 9SIP Arithmetic Genius 2017Won the first round of the all-India abacus contest, Class 3SIP Arithmetic Genius 2018Back for a second yearGoogle CS FirstCoded my own Google logo in Class 4. My first taste of computer science.
Class 5, playing the Sub-Inspector
Edu Expos at Bhashyam Blooms
Every year our classroom turned into an exhibition. We picked a theme, built it with our teachers and presented it live to parents. Looking back, it was an early version of something I still enjoy: building a thing to explain an idea.
Class 5
Police Station
A working station with a jail and a prisoner. I played the Sub-Inspector and gave the speech.
Class 7
Eco-friendly Home
A model house that stays cool without air conditioning.
Class 8
Hyderabad Metro
Our biggest build, with trains, the elevated line and the streets around it. I was on the core team.
Class 9
Cryptocurrency
What it is, how Bitcoin started and what to think about before investing.
Team project, presented to the class with a live demo
A plant watering system that watches the soil and waters each plant only when it actually needs it, instead of on a fixed schedule.
1Soil sensorreads moisture
2Arduino Unochecks the threshold
3Relayswitches the pump
4Pump and dripwater the roots
Wet soil conducts better than dry soil. When moisture drops, the Arduino triggers the relay, since its 5V signal can't power the pump directly. Once the soil is wet enough, it switches off by itself.
With Darsh Sheejith, Vishwa Prerepa, Dhruva Nerella and Meghanandan Reddy
Law, Midhun Allu & Associates
May to July 2026
Three months learning the everyday legal basics most people rely on without understanding them, including a full day moving between courtrooms at the High Court in Hyderabad. It changed how I read the things we all sign.
Python and Streamlit
Learned from the ground up
With a group of kind, encouraging teachers, finishing with my own portfolio app: an expense splitter, a BMI calculator, an interest calculator and a maths utility for primes, HCF and LCM.
At a residential school, sport was part of every week, so I tried almost everything on offer. These days it's mostly the gym, and running for causes.
Sport, December 2023
Silver in Under-14 basketball, Gurukul Olympics 2023
Our school team took silver in the Under-14 basketball event at the Gurukul Olympics, held from 6 to 9 December 2023 at Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul International School, Hyderabad. I was in Grade 9 and vice-captain of the Bhashyam Blooms team that year.
The certificate and the medal that came with it. Tap either to look closer.
School sports
Team results from Bhashyam Blooms, Classes 5 to 10.
Basketball, school teamVice-captain. Inter-school wins at the YMCA Kargil Victory Sports Festival and the Under-14 silver at the Gurukul Olympics2023
Given to members who show up at least three days a week, week after week. I started training seriously in Class 11. For me it's less about intensity and more about turning up.
Some of the most useful things I do have nothing to do with a screen. They mostly involve turning up, regularly, and doing whatever the day needs.
50
Robin Hood Army drives in Hyderabad
Every week, or at least once a month. On food drives we serve meals to families who need them. On teaching drives we spend time with children who don't go to school, teach them the basics, and talk to their parents about enrolling them.
Ninja badge at my 10-drive milestone, May 2026
Temple volunteering
Festivals, ongoing
During Ganesh Chaturthi and Dasara I help with arrangements and serving devotees when the crowds are at their biggest.
Hands-only CPR training
1 Feb 2026
At Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad. Theory first, then practice on training manikins.
Inter School Recycling Championship
2018
An ITC and GHMC initiative. I exchanged 7.3 kg of dry waste, old books and paper.
Freedom Ride, Atlanta Foundation
Aug 2017
A community cycling ride at Gachibowli Stadium in support of education.
City runs, from both sides of the barrier
I take part in community runs, and I've also helped run one. Sometimes I'm a participant, sometimes I'm the person keeping the route clear.
beside the course
Volunteer, 16 August 2026
Hyderabad Monsoon Run 2026
Traffic and route support
I volunteered at the Hyderabad Monsoon Run in the HITEC City area, helping with traffic control and keeping movement along the route organised. A small part of a large community event, but a meaningful one to be part of.
The official event poster. I was on the route as a volunteer, not a runner.
on the course
Participant, 27 September 2026
Pink Power Run 2026
5KFinisher
41:24Recorded time
50458Bib number
A city-wide run for breast cancer awareness, a month after I helped manage the route at the Monsoon Run. I ran it for the cause, not for a time.
Race context
The certificate records 41:24. Event organisers later communicated that the course measured approximately 5.8 km, and the event used a mass-start timing system. With a crowded starting area, the recorded time is not directly comparable to a chip-timed individual 5K.
I'm a Class 12 student (Maths, Physics and Chemistry) at Resonance Global Campus in Hyderabad. I learn by building: websites and tools for my family's businesses, a local clinic and kirana shops. I'm heading into an undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, aiming to start in 2027. More about me.
I use AI coding assistants, mostly Claude, to write a lot of the code, and I'm open about that. My part is deciding what to build, how the pieces connect (database, logins, WhatsApp, payments, AI), testing it with the people who use it, and fixing what breaks. I also learned Python from scratch in an internship and built and deployed my own Streamlit app.
What has he learned from building for real businesses?
That a website is only one piece. Working on our PG and on Hitex Health Nest pulled me into ads, Instagram, WhatsApp and how a customer gets from finding a business to getting a reply. I started thinking in systems, not single pages. See how the pieces connect.
What are his academic achievements?
96.8% in Class 11 (455 out of 470), with full marks in Maths IB, Physics and Chemistry. At Bhashyam Blooms I was class topper in Grade 8, second academic topper of the Grade 8 cohort for 2022-23, class second in Grade 9, and second in a Ramanujan Day maths test. Also Science and Maths Olympiads. See the academics page.
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