Amaar Chughtai

Experience

• null0 2025 – Present

  Founder

  • An AI agent that operates a Mac from plain language, carrying out real actions across apps.
  • In public beta.

  TypeScript, macOS

• Cotton 2025 – Present

  Founder

  • An iOS wardrobe that catalogs clothes from a photo and picks outfits for the weather.
  • Built the photo pipeline: image classification and background removal that tag each piece by type, color and style.

  Expo, Next.js, Core ML, OpenAI API

• Princeton University 2025 – Present

  Research analyst, neural decoding

  • Reconstructing what a person saw from fMRI, building on MindEye: mapping BOLD signals into the embedding spaces of vision models (CLIP, VGG-19).
  • Subject-specific fine-tuning on the Natural Scenes Dataset raised top-5 retrieval by 28% and CLIP similarity by 15% over a ridge-regression baseline.

  Python, PyTorch

  MindEye

• Stellar Learning 2023 – 2025

  Founder

  • A free learning platform: 80+ courses across AP, IB, SAT and competitive math, reaching 25,000 students by 2025.
  • Trained Nova, our own tutor model, which generates interactive graphs and study material. 50+ contributors. Nonprofit, sponsored by Hack Club.

  Next.js, Svelte, Python, PyTorch, MongoDB

• Pivyr 2024 – 2025

  Founder

  • Shopping search that tracks prices and where they are heading.

  TypeScript, Next.js

• WarriorBorgs, FRC Team 3256 2023 – 2025

  Senior developer, robot code and systems

  • Control software for the swerve drive and flywheel shooter, and a deterministic scouting-assignment algorithm for collecting data on 50+ teams.
  • FRC World Championship qualifier; Silicon Valley Regional finalist.

  Java, C++

• VC Assist 2021 – 2023

  Lead engineer

  • Led a team of 35 building a student app for Valley Christian (iOS, iPadOS and desktop) for schedules and grades. 1,400 peak users.
  • Built the Node.js and Docker backend and the pipelines that keep grades in sync.

  Swift, Electron, TypeScript, Node.js, Docker

Leadership and activities

• Software Development Club, Valley Christian

  Founder and president

  • Teaching students software development and how to design real products.

• At the Intersection

  Host

  • An open forum on technology and culture.

• Math tutoring

  Tutor

  • Pre-algebra through calculus.

Education

• Valley Christian High School

  San Jose, California

Skills

Languages

Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Java, C++, C, Rust, SQL

Machine learning

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, CLIP, scikit-learn, Core ML, computer vision

Apps and web

React, Next.js, Node.js, Svelte, React Native and Expo, Electron, Tailwind CSS

Infrastructure

Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Firebase, Supabase, AWS, Vercel

Awards

• TEDx speaker TEDx
• President’s Award for Educational Excellence U.S. Department of Education
• USACO Silver USA Computing Olympiad
• Certificate of Merit, Level 10 Music Teachers’ Association of California
• Undefeated season, Public Forum debate Coast Forensic League

Interests

Jazz piano (seven years, performing around the Bay Area) and astrophotography.