founder02 / 02[ r&d & head of growth ]
Ujjwal Kumar Rai
Drove 100M+ views of traction for Runable before its $21M+ Series A; now leads R&D and growth at Aevrin.
Ujjwal runs research and development and growth at Aevrin, and he has already done the hard part once. The traction he generated for Runable passed one hundred million views as the company went on to raise a Series A of more than $21M. With over a year in growth and four hackathon wins behind him, he builds the systems and the audience in the same motion.
His engineering is media and AI heavy: Python systems with PyQt6 desktop applications, FastAPI back ends and SQL and NoSQL stores; computer vision and media processing with OpenCV, Real-ESRGAN, yt-dlp and FFmpeg; React on the front, Git-based workflows and cloud deployment underneath.
Built
- Sharpify: AI-based image and video upscaling to 4K, as a desktop application.
- Chatterbox TTS on Colab: voice cloning and text-to-speech, runnable in a notebook.
- Pinterest media scraper: bulk media collection with a clean pipeline.
- Download and transcription tools: YouTube and Instagram downloaders and AI-based YouTube transcription.
- Deepfake Engine Detector and robot locomotion training: collaborative projects with the Aevrin team, the former a prize winner, the latter quadruped locomotion on the Unitree Go2.
Growth
- 100M+ views of traction generated for Runable, which raised a $21M+ Series A
- More than a year of hands-on growth work
- Four-time hackathon winner
Stack
Python, PyQt6, FastAPI, SQL and NoSQL, OpenCV, Real-ESRGAN, yt-dlp, FFmpeg, React, Git, cloud deployment.