That's me — Livia. A builder before anything else: four ventures, 40+ ML projects, and a stubborn habit of starting before I'm ready. The throughline is simple — use whatever tool helps one real person, then make it bigger. Thanks for flying all the way out here. If any of it resonated, let's talk.
let's talk ▸ linkedin.com/in/liviapathakamudiI'm a surviving twin. My mom says I got two brains — one mine, one my sister's. For a long time that was guilt; somewhere along the way I decided to make it purpose instead. I grew up in my dad's startup office — I'd skip school just to be there — and I've been building ever since. I use code for one reason: it's the fastest lever I've found to actually help a real person.
Same pattern every time: use code to get a rough version working fast, prove it helps one person, then figure out how to make it bigger. I've shipped 40+ ML projects in Python and built and improved real ML systems on messy historical data as an AI intern at WednesdAI Collective. I'd rather ship something imperfect and learn than wait for a plan I'm sure of.
Congressional App Challenge win (and a note from Rep. Ro Khanna), a 1517 Medici grant ($10K AWS + $1K), two-time Conrad Challenge Innovator at Space Center Houston, Top 30 in the Blue Ocean Challenge, and full rides to two selective programs I finished with honors.
I want to get better at the part I'm worst at: taking something that works for one person and turning it into something that lasts. Harder problems, sharper people, less of me trying to do it all alone.