Social Slaughter
Jun 2021 / 2021 S1
Social Slaughter
Founder & Web Developer
The first long-running web project: self-taught builds, repeated redesigns, and charity drives that turned shipping into muscle memory.
Social Slaughter
Shipped
What I keep chasing
A left-to-right trail of things I built, joined, tested and learned from.
01 / 20
The short version
I'm a software engineer and product builder working across AI systems, full-stack development and clinical analytics.
At NextDocs, I helped support a product with 70,000 users and A$400K ARR. I study Engineering (Honours) at the University of Sydney, majoring in Intelligent Information Systems with Innovation & Entrepreneurship, with a WAM of 75. Previously built KNOY Energy and shipped UniSlay across 600+ universities before it was acquired.
What lives in my head right now
AI SystemsEnvironmental IntelligenceEvidence SystemsFounder BrainLate-Night Tinkering
Read this site in four sittings: building, academics, dreams, side quests. No particular hurry.
What I actually spend my days on
Building.
Companies & products
01
Jan 2026 – Apr 2026KNOY Energy
Co-Founder & CEO
An environmental-project intelligence platform that turns complex project documentation into a traceable evidence graph.
- Built a source-to-export workflow linking requirements, claims, gaps and page-level citations, with human review throughout.
- Turned environmental project folders into requirements, issues and commitments registers, a missing-information list and a cited report section.
- Designed the evidence layer so outputs can stay connected to the source material behind them.
Apr 2026 – Present
Founding Engineer
Create beautiful docs and slides in seconds with AI, without the usual AI-made look.
- Software engineering across onboarding, authentication, templates and launch UX for a product supporting 70,000 users and A$400K ARR.
- Built real-time human-agent co-editing from core architecture to launch readiness across web and desktop.
- Shipped presentation and video workflows across the early software-engineering build.
Aug 2024 – Sep 2025
Co-Founder
A peer-to-peer student guidance platform connecting students across 600+ universities: honest conversations, no agents, no rankings.
- Matched students with peers who had already navigated the same decisions in degrees, countries, careers and migration.
- Led product end-to-end, from the first paper sketch to growth, partnerships and onboarding the marketplace itself.
- Designed the incentives so both sides walked away with something real. Now acquired.
Jan 2024 – Aug 2024
Founder & Full-Stack Developer
Shipping product work for fellow founders. MVPs in 7 days, with a six-person product team.
- Shipped production dashboards and AI agents on short timelines, including several seven-day MVPs.
- Owned the pipeline end-to-end (ask → Figma → code → deploy), with plenty of late-night iteration.
- Found early clients through cold DMs, referrals and one lucky LinkedIn comment thread. No elaborate pitch deck involved.
Roles, opportunities & internships
Mostly chronological. Mostly the ones that taught me something.
Johnson & Johnson MedTech (DePuy Synthes)
Jun 2026 – Nov 2026Software Engineer (ESIPS)
Sydney, Australia
A 26-week University of Sydney ESIPS placement with J&J MedTech, building a predictive analytics MVP for the VELYS robotic-assisted surgery platform with provenance-aware data pipelines, 3D navigation features, case-level validation and explainability.
INCUBATE
Mar 2026 – Apr 2026Entrepreneur in Residence
Sydney, NSW
Developed KNOY Energy inside USYD's pre-accelerator, sharpening the company story without losing what made the product useful.
IBM
Feb 2026 – PresentIBM Z Student Ambassador
University of Sydney
Representing IBM Z and mainframe technology on campus. Main job is making the word "mainframe" stop sounding like 1972 to engineering students who, like me a year ago, had never touched one.
Engineers Australia
Dec 2024 – PresentStudent Ambassador · Contract
University of Sydney · On-site
Helping students understand the gap between studying engineering and practising it. Short answer: yes; bring snacks.
Enactus Sydney
Aug 2024 – Apr 2026Startup Director, then Member
Sydney, NSW
As Startup Director (Aug 2025 – Apr 2026), led Bridge, an AI-first education platform built under Enactus, owning product direction and team execution. Before that, spent a year contributing to social entrepreneurship initiatives across the organisation.
Sydney University Data Society (SUDATA)
May 2024 – Nov 2025Tech Sub-committee
Sydney, NSW · On-site
Built and maintained the backend systems and admin panels for the society portal (600+ monthly users), and supported event technology.
Teletrack
Jul 2025 – Sep 2025Software Engineer Intern
Ultimo, NSW
Improved responsive workflows, integrated Xero and removed manual bottlenecks across Maintenance and Dockets.
Cicero AI · USYD (SIEN2001)
Feb 2025 – Jun 2025Sustainability & Business Analysis Project
University of Sydney
University-industry project analysing Cicero AI's business and financial structure, exploring how UN Sustainable Development Goals could fit into their operations and growth strategy.
Sydney Precision Data Science Centre
Aug 2024 – Nov 2024ML Researcher · Internship
Sydney, NSW · Hybrid
Modelled links between extreme heat and heart-failure admissions using regression and ensemble methods on three years of hospital data.
SheRecycles
OngoingTech Volunteer
Remote
Helping a women-led recycling initiative get a tech stack that doesn't get in the way of the actual work. Quietly building so the people on the ground can stay there.
Red Dot Innovative
Jun 2024 – Jul 2024Quality Assurance Intern · Internship
Singapore
Automated testing using PyTest and Selenium during my first year of university. Mostly learned that QA is product work in disguise and that nobody loves you more than the dev whose bug you actually documented.
Commonwealth Bank
Mar 2024 – Jun 2024Brand Ambassador · Internship
Greater Sydney · On-site
Ran campus events on financial literacy and product awareness. Discovered that a good tote bag is, in fact, a closing argument.
The credentials, sort of.
Academics.
Education
University of Sydney
2023 – 2027Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
Majoring inIntelligent Information SystemsAndInnovation & Entrepreneurship
WAM: 75
Translation: I get to take systems classes in the morning and pitch decks to professors in the afternoon. Both feel like cheating.
Technical skills
AI systems
Context engineeringMulti-agent orchestrationAgentic workflowsRAGMCPModel routingEvaluationsStructured outputs
Languages
PythonTypeScriptC++SQLJavaC
Frameworks
Next.jsReactFlaskDjangoTailwindShadCN
Data
Scikit-learnPandasCNNs
Databases
PostgresSchema designSupabase RLS
QA
SeleniumPyTestCoverage analytics
Cloud / DevOps
GitGitHub ActionsVercelDockerAWSCloudflare
Half of these I learned because I had to. The other half because I couldn't fall asleep.
Awards & programs
- 01
INCUBATE Pre-Accelerator
Mar 2026 – Apr 2026University of Sydney
Developed KNOY Energy inside USYD's startup pre-accelerator.
- 02
FoundersHack Sydney 2026
2026NextGen Ventures
Built Darby in 72 hours, a multi-agent research platform running frontier models in parallel. Slept less, learned a lot.
Three things I need before we're properly friends
Not in the LinkedIn-bio sense. In the call-me-at-3am sense.
Hunger.
Not the loud kind. The quiet kind that makes you reopen the laptop on a Sunday because the problem is more interesting than the brunch.
Loyalty.
I'll tell you the truth before I tell you what you want to hear, then show up the next day anyway. Usually with coffee.
Curious.
Enough to ask the third question after the polite two. If we get there, we'll probably end up good friends.
The list I keep editing
Dreams.
The list
- 01
Open a genuinely useful NGO for stray dogs.
A serious one: vets, kennels, practical adoption pipelines, and a name that does not make donors flinch. Too many good dogs still have nobody.
- 02
Coffee with someone new more often.
Founder, retiree, taxi driver, twelve-year-old chess prodigy. Doesn't matter. Conversations are the only compounding asset I actually trust.
- 03
Build beautiful things, on purpose.
A design philosophy I keep stealing back from myself: if it doesn't look like someone cared, then nobody did. Software, products, sentences — same rule.
- 04
Three companies, in three lifetimes I haven't had yet.
Each in a field I had no business starting in. Healthcare, energy, education. Whichever order causes the most respectful chaos.
- 05
Own only four Ferraris.
Four. Not five. The fifth one is when you stop being interesting and start being a guy with five Ferraris.
Philosophy I keep stealing
Half work things, half life things. Both keep me honest.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Most days the best thing you can do is not the fast thing. The fast thing comes naturally once you stop forcing it.
Bet on people, not decks.
Whatever you're starting, the spreadsheet is wrong; the people you're starting with are the only thing the next year will actually depend on.
Stay a student, forever.
The fastest people I know are the ones still embarrassed by what they shipped six months ago. Embarrassment is a leading indicator.
Care visibly, not loudly.
Don't perform caring; just remember the small thing. Birthdays. The bug they mentioned. The thing they said they were nervous about.
Last time I rewrote this list, half of it was wrong inside a year. That's the point.
Hit me up
Connect.
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A real slot, no email thread.
© 2026 Arjun Avtani · Built late at night with too much typing.