Arush Bansal
Engineer · Co-founder
Bengaluru, India
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Summary
Engineer and co-founder at the intersection of product and engineering. IIT Delhi alum; early engineer at Floworks (YC W23), shipping agentic B2B sales automation. Former graduate software engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. Co-founder of Grifi. I focus on real problems, tight feedback loops, and systems that work when nobody's watching.
Experience
Grifi
PresentCo-founder · Bengaluru
- Building product and engineering at a startup focused on shipping real tools, not slide decks.
Floworks.ai
YC W23Early Engineer · Bengaluru
- One of four engineers who built and shipped the go-to-market MVP.
- Agentic automation for sales — B2B SaaS from zero to customers.
Jaguar Land Rover
PreviouslyGraduate Software Engineer · India
- Python behavioral simulation module modeling human driving across drive cycles.
Phoenix · IIT Delhi
CampusLead · New Delhi
- Led Phoenix — the institute's largest product community and a two-month innovation campaign.
Projects
NovaGPT
AI · LLM applications
Applied LLMs — custom agents, retrieval, and interfaces built for repeat use, not demo theatre.
- LLMs
- Agents
- RAG
SportsHub
Sports · Campus platform
End-to-end platform for sports scheduling, teams, and live updates across IIT Delhi intramurals.
- Full-stack
- Product
Creatorbox
Creator tools & experiments
Sandbox for creator-economy prototypes — workflows, UGC tooling, and content pipeline automation.
- Creators
- UGC
Mess-system
Campus infrastructure
Mess ordering and operations stack for IIT Delhi hostels — payments, menus, and kitchen workflows.
- Scale
- Full-stack
FeynmanAI
EdTech · AI tutoring
Teaching assistant using LLMs to explain concepts step-by-step with Socratic follow-ups.
- EdTech
- LLMs
Unipace
Opportunity discovery
Portal surfacing programs, competitions, and deadlines for students — built and shipped as a startup.
- Product
- B2C
Achievements
Mess-system at scale
IIT DelhiScaled campus mess platform to 10k+ DAUs across hostels; featured in The Indian Express.
InterIIT Tech Meet
InterIITProduct + ML problem statement lead — owned end-to-end delivery for the institute team.
Phoenix IIT Delhi
CampusFounded and led the institute's product community; ran a two-month innovation campaign with hundreds of builders.
Floworks.ai (YC W23)
YC W23Early engineer on a four-person team that shipped the go-to-market MVP for agentic B2B sales automation.
Open source
Ongoing48+ public repositories — agents, optimizers, portals, and side experiments on GitHub.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
B.Tech Chemical Engineering
IIT Delhi
Skills
- Product strategy & execution
- Full-stack engineering
- Python
- LLMs & agentic systems
- B2B SaaS
- Community building
- Technical leadership