Aryan Rawther

I was always the kid who loved computers a little too much. While my classmates were still getting comfortable with Python and Java, I'd already gone further than the syllabus. Programming made sense to me in a way that few things did — the logic, the feedback loop, the feeling of building something from nothing. By the time I got to PES University to study Computer Science, I wasn't starting from zero. I was starting from ahead.

But knowing how to code and knowing what to build with it are two different things. In my first year, I was convinced I was going to be a dropshipper. I had the idea, the drive, and no budget to pay anyone to build a site. So I built it myself. That decision — practical, unglamorous, born out of constraint — turned out to be one of the most important I ever made.

Word travels fast when you're good at something.
By my second year, people were noticing. A referral connected me with Growthspree, a digital growth agency where I spent most of my college years doing real work for real clients. This is where frontend development stopped being academic and became something I could do at a professional level — fast, clean, SEO-conscious, built to perform. I didn't just build websites. I built websites that ranked, loaded fast, and brought in customers. Marketing and SEO stopped being things I read about and became things I understood from having done them.

By my final year, I was working across three organisations simultaneously. I planned it that way.
I'd made a deliberate decision early on: before I built something of my own, I wanted as much real-world experience as I could get my hands on — across different types of companies, different scales, different problems.

At PESU Venture Labs, I was a full-stack lead — building products, making architectural decisions, and mentoring peers in web development. Those were the days before AI could answer your debugging questions at 2am. You figured things out.

At UpTrain, a Y Combinator-backed AI company, I built the entire dashboard single-handedly. But what made that experience genuinely formative wasn't just the engineering — it was being in the room with the marketing team, the design team, the executives. I learned that the best engineers aren't the ones who stay in their lane. They're the ones who understand what lane they're in and why it matters to everyone else.
Three organisations, overlapping, in final year. Hard? Yes. Worth it? Completely.

Then I went to Egnyte — deliberately, for a different kind of education.
I'd spent years in startup environments and I knew how they worked. What I didn't know was how large companies operated — the hierarchies, the processes, the way decisions get made at scale with thousands of people and enterprise clients depending on you. Egnyte gave me that.

In the year I spent there, I worked on systems that served serious enterprise clients. I understood what engineering rigour looked like beyond the startup "move fast" mindset. And at one point, I found myself in a conversation with the CEO of Egnyte. Among the various things I asked him, I asked him directly: "What drives you to push that hard?" The answer stayed with me.

CombineHealth was where every thread came together.
The AI boom was happening. The fire in me to build something of my own had never gone quiet, and startup culture was calling again — louder than ever. I joined CombineHealth and made a deliberate choice from day one: I was not going to stay in a box.

Infrastructure, frontend, backend, AI systems, growth, SEO, marketing — I contributed across every domain I could. When hiring came up, I recommended candidates. When there was a problem outside my official remit, I walked toward it rather than past it.

Two areas pulled me in deepest. The first was the eligibility and automation work — taking manual, time-consuming healthcare workflows and replacing them with AI systems that actually worked. Watching AI do real, meaningful work in a domain that affects people's lives made something click into place for me. This wasn't theoretical anymore. The second was growth — making sure the frontend was fast, the SEO was sharp, and that clients were finding us.

Now it's time.
Five years. An agency, a VC lab, a Y Combinator startup, a global enterprise, a healthcare AI company. Frontend developer, full-stack lead, AI engineer, growth contributor — and always, underneath all of it, someone who wanted to build something of their own.

AI has changed the economics of building software. What used to require a large team and significant capital can now be done leaner, faster, and smarter. I've spent years accumulating the experience to know what good looks like across every layer of a product. The timing is right. The skills are there. And the ambition that's been running quietly in the background since those school computer labs has never been louder.

That's what Aether Minds LLP is. I'd like you to be part of what comes next.