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Experience

• Founder @ YouthDevs
  (may 2026 - present)
  • Making courses to help students build websites with AI.
  • Hosted SummerDevs 2026, a hackathon with over 60+ middle and high school students to develop their skills in coding. Over 75% of the participants had 0 experience, but every team walked out with a shipped product.
  • Building an open-source IDE with integrated AI chat, the Monaco editor, GitHub, and Vercel deployment.
  • Fiscally sponsored nonprofit by Hack Club.
• Software Engineering Team Lead @ FiveHive
  (sep 2026 - present)
  • Co-lead in a 5-person software engineering team which designs and builds features for an open-source AP exam platform serving 1,000+ active users and a 55k+ student community.
  • Currently planning and leading development of a user dashboard and XP reward system.
• President @ BASIS Phoenix Cybersecurity Club
  (aug 2025 - present)
  • Started the school cybersecurity club to teach students the principles of digital safety.
  • Organizing campus CTF tournaments in alliance with the CS Honor Society.
  • Placed 91st percentile globally in PicoCTF by CMU and 83rd percentile in PicoMini by CMU Africa.
  • These competitions had thousands of cybersecurity professionals and college students as competitors.

Projects

• SummerDevs 2026 High School Hackathon
  • Lead Organizer for an organizing team that ran SummerDevs 2026, a hackathon bringing together 60+ students to build tools that help middle and high school students stay healthy.
  • Led marketing and financial planning, coordinated event logistics, and built the software powering SummerDevs.
• BASIS Phoenix French Honor Society Website (GitHub)
  • Built an open-source custom website designed for communication within the French Honor Society.
  • Contains functional admin dashboard with content management and attendance through Firestore.
• BASIS Phoenix Mu Alpha Theta Website (GitHub)
  • Built open-source website for the BASIS Phoenix Mu Alpha Theta chapter to spread visibility to the school.
  • Contains functional admin content management backend through Firestore

Past Activities/Projects/Experiences

• Full-stack Developer (intern) @ SkipCourse
  (feb 2026 - sep 2026)
  • Earned through a 1st place finish at ASU's Frostbyes Hackathon.
  • Built a game-upload platform with automated iframe embedding and AI-based verification as part of a four-person team.
  • Templated games and question sets independently, so users can upload either one and play any game with any question set.
  • Improved student and admin dashboards for project uploads and standards tracking.
• Full-Stack Developer @ FiveHive
  (mar 2026 - sep 2026)
  • Developed and enhanced an AP exam platform serving 1,000+ active users and a 55k+ student community.
  • Built custom Monaco code blocks for AP CSA, JSON-based guide configurations, a formula sheet, an in-built calculator, image resizing, native feedback, profile picture functions, and native GitHub issue sync.
• Content Creator @ FiveHive
  (jul 2026 - aug 2026)
  • Created content to help students prepare for AP exams, including AP Biology.
• Teaching Coordinator @ BASIS Phoenix Biology Olympiad Prep Club
  (aug 2025 - may 2026)
  • Helped club members prepare for the biology olympiad exam.
• Member @ Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society
  (aug 2025 - may 2026)
  • Participated and placed in multiple competitions including Math Madness, Mini Math Madness, Math League, and AMC.

Awards/Education

• 1st place – ASU Frostbyes Hackathon
  Engineered simulation in team of 4 to track carbon reduction factors.
• 3rd place – Arizona Math League State Qualifier
  Ranked 3rd across all state sophomores; qualified for state finals.
• 1470 – PSAT/NMSQT score
  760 Math, 710 English.
• AP Coursework
  Completed 10 AP courses, including AP CSA, AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, and AP Statistics, with scores of 4 or 5 on every exam. Currently taking seven AP classes.
• Academic Distinctions
  College Board National Recognition Award • AP Scholar Award (2025) • AP Scholar with Distinction Award (2026).

Community & Leadership

• School IT Department Voluntarism
  Assisted school IT administrators with operational tech tasks during official school holidays.
• Medicinal Explorations
  Graduate of UofA's Saturday Scrubs program and active member of the HonorHealth Medical Explorers program.
• Community Outreach
  Volunteered at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, St. Mary's Food Bank, and Kumon instructional tutoring.
• Martial Arts
  3+ years of dedication concentrated on technical mastery and organizational peer leadership.

Connect

github • linkedin • Discord: famousmaster206 • Email: venkata@youthdevs.org