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self

A biography, charted

I grew up all over India: Kendriya Vidyalayas, Air Force schools, and then Rashtriya Military School, a boarding school that took 44 boys from 150,000 applicants and taught me early that discipline is a technology. After school came JEE, the 99.4th percentile of 1.1 million, and a rank good enough for the IITs.

I chose a different door instead: Arizona State University, a dual major in Computer Science and Economics with a minor in Mathematics, finished summa cum laude with a 4.0 and the Moeur Award. Along the way I became the founding engineer of MealsBus, scaled it to $1.2M in annual revenue, and fell permanently for markets. Today I trade BTST and price action on the NSE and build software the rest of the time.

Below is the whole story the way a trader would draw it. The down candle is real; it is the year the obvious path and my path stopped being the same line.

The chart so far

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
  1. 2016 Rashtriya Military School, admitted 44 of 150,000
  2. 2017 District champion, Spell Well India
  3. 2018 Govt. of India adventure course, J&K; grade Difficile
  4. 2019 Vice-captain, New Delhi state cricket; tournament won
  5. 2020 Qualified UPSC NDA examination
  6. 2021 JEE Mains: 99.4 percentile of 1.1 million
  7. 2021 JEE Advanced under AIR 6,000; chose a different door
  8. 2021 ASU: New American University Scholarship, 75% of tuition
  9. 2023 UCLA, Berkeley, Georgetown transfer offers; declined all three
  10. 2023 Venture Devils won twice with MealsBus
  11. 2024 UC Berkeley AI Hackathon finalist with Vify
  12. 2024 MealsBus reaches $1.2M ARR
  13. 2024 Summa Cum Laude, 4.0; Moeur Award and GCSP

Current positions

markets
BTST and price-action trading; probability, valuation, and reading company financials for sport.
reading
Science, finance, and research papers; geopolitics; medieval and modern history and polity; philosophy and psychology.
life
Cycling, cricket, and any body of water. Solo travel to unfamiliar cities. Long discussions, never debates. Favorite city: New Delhi. The plan: live in LA, work in NYC.

Toolkit

languages
C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, MATLAB, Assembly
systems
AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, Firebase, Prisma
ai
LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering
product
Next.js, React Native, Git, Agile
math + finance
Probability, linear algebra, game theory, technical and fundamental analysis, risk modeling

The inbox is open: bhanumayankjha28@gmail.com.