About Avula Hariswara Reddy
Class 12 student from Hyderabad. I learn by building, and I'm heading into AI and machine learning.
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
- AI and machine learning
- Mathematics
- How systems connect
- Small businesses
- Robotics
- Fitness and running
- Community work
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.
How I learn
- Start with a problemUsually one I can see: my father's registers, a shopkeeper's credit notebook, a clinic nobody could find online.
- Find out what I don't knowDatabases, logins, payment gateways, the WhatsApp API. I read, watch, and ask a lot of questions, including to AI tools.
- Build the smallest versionSomething the person can actually try, even if it's rough.
- Watch it break, then fix itA security audit, a form that confused people, OCR that misread a word. Most of what I know came from this step.
How I work with AI
I use AI coding assistants, mostly Claude, to write a lot of my code. I'd rather be honest about that than pretend otherwise. What they don't do is decide what a clinic actually needs, choose how a database and WhatsApp should talk to each other, or notice that a manager can see records they shouldn't. That's the part I own, and it's the part I've learned the most from.
Beyond the code
Working on our family's PG and on Hitex Health Nest pulled me into the rest of the business: running Meta and ChatGPT ads for the PG, helping the clinic set up its Instagram and plan its first posts, and thinking about how a customer moves from finding a business to getting a reply. It showed me that a website is one part of a much bigger system.
Where I'm heading
An undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, aiming to start in 2027. I've used AI in real projects, like reading handwriting and answering questions offline. Now I want to understand properly how it works underneath.
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
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.
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01How do people find it?
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02How do they get in touch?
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03Where does the information live?
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04What runs behind the scenes?
Tap any partto see where I used it and what it does.
