Atiksh Shukla
I'm Atiksh, a student at BASIS Peoria. I write software and like problems where the math has to hold up.
Right now that's Dextrivia. Clearing debris from orbit turns out to be a traveling salesman problem, so I'm building the classical baseline that a quantum (QUBO) solver will have to beat.
I won the NY Tech Week Intern Hackathon with Walkthru, a git hook that quizzes you on your own diff before it lets you commit. I also run LifeAndBooks, a YouTube channel about books and life, with my mom.
Things I’ve done
- 2026
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- Problem
- AI can write your code faster than you can understand it. Teams ship diffs nobody on the team can explain.
- What I built
- A git pre-commit hook that quizzes the author on their own diff (multiple choice, matching, or free response) and blocks the commit below a 3.0 out of 5 score.
- Outcome
- 1st place at the NY Tech Week Intern Hackathon 2026 (Mantle, YC F25).
- Dextrivia, debris removal sequencing on live orbital dataresearch
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- Problem
- Removing debris from low Earth orbit is a sequencing problem: N objects, a delta-v cost between every pair, one best visiting order. Structurally, it's the traveling salesman problem.
- What I built
- A pipeline that pulls live TLE data from Celestrak, propagates each object to a common epoch with SGP4, builds a Hohmann-transfer delta-v cost matrix, and solves a greedy baseline sequence for the Iridium-Cosmos 2009 debris cloud.
- Outcome
- The classical benchmark a QUBO solver is being built to beat.
- Orphy, a real-time AI vocal coach, built at Multimodal Hacksproject
- prism, self-hosted AI code reviewproject
- The Last Alibi, an AI murder mystery gameproject
- ragit, chat with a folder of documents, fully localproject
- 2025
- LifeAndBooks, 0 → 30K+ subscribers, 215+ videos, 217K+ viewsmedia
- Gainloom, foundercompany