pratyush_shukla
APPLIED AI ENGINEER · ABUNDANT.AI (YC W25)

Building agents that reason, act, and ship.

I'm Pratyush Shukla - friends call me Pratty. I work on agent infrastructure, teleoperation, and agentic workflows, with a research bent toward reinforcement learning, computer vision, and SWE automation. I like systems that close the loop between reasoning and the real world.

// FOCUS

What I spend my time thinking about

Agentic AI

Planning, tool use, and long-horizon agent workflows that hold up outside the demo.

Reinforcement Learning

Reward shaping and policy work for sequential decision-making and control.

Computer Vision

Perception for robotics - detection, pose, and teleoperation pipelines.

SWE Automation

Agents that read, write, and verify code as part of the development loop.

Neuro-fuzzy Systems

Hybrid learning and reasoning where crisp rules and learned signals meet.

Sonomorphic Computing

Exploring sound-shaped computation as an unconventional substrate for inference.

// SIGNALS
1stindividual

Passed the ARC AGI 3 reasoning benchmark

First individual to clear ARC AGI 3 using an agentic framework - a benchmark built specifically to resist memorization and reward genuine reasoning.

18K+downloads

DeFiLlama-Curl on PyPI

Creator and core developer of an unofficial Python 3 wrapper for the DeFiLlama API, now past 18,000 downloads and used across DeFi tooling.

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ICLR2026

Reviewer, RSI Workshop

Volunteer reviewer for the Reasoning and Symbolic Intelligence (RSI) Workshop at ICLR 2026, reviewing submissions at the reasoning frontier.

// SELECTED WORK

ARC AGI 3 agentic solver

An agentic framework that reasons through ARC AGI 3 tasks end to end - the first individual submission to pass the benchmark.

Agentic AIReasoningEval

DeFiLlama-Curl

Unofficial Python 3 wrapper for the DeFiLlama API. Typed, batteries-included, and past 18K downloads on PyPI.

PythonOpen SourceDeFi
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Teleoperation & agent infra

Infrastructure connecting human teleoperation to autonomous agents at Abundant.ai - the loop between demonstration and policy.

RoboticsInfraAgents

Vision pipelines for robotics

Detection, pose, and perception systems built at Orangewood Labs to drive real manipulators in the physical world.

Computer VisionRoboticsPerception
// NOW & RESEARCHWhere the attention is going
NOW

Applied AI Engineer at Abundant.ai (YC W25) - agent infrastructure, teleoperation, and agentic workflows.

2026

Volunteer reviewer for the RSI Workshop at ICLR 2026, reviewing work on reasoning and symbolic intelligence.

ONGOING

Exploring sonomorphic computing and neuro-fuzzy systems as routes to more robust, interpretable agents.

// EXPERIENCE

Applied AI Engineer · Abundant.ai

YC W25 · Agent infrastructure, teleoperation, agentic workflows

AI & Computer Vision Engineer · Orangewood Labs

YC W18 · Perception and vision pipelines for robotics

// EDUCATION

MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Machine learning, systems, and computer vision