ARYAN

TECHNICAL FOUNDER · BUILDER · OPERATOR

ARYAN
IYAPPAN

Building enduring ideas from first principles

GRAPHQL
WEB DEVELOPMENT
AI ENGINEERING
AGENTIC DEVELOPMENT
CONTEXT ENGINEERING

I

The
Builder

Nineteen. Self-taught across engineering and business. Shipped production systems, contributed to open source (Strawberry GraphQL), and took a healthcare marketplace from zero to traction — owning product, sales, and every hard decision in between.

AWS Developer Associate. Google Cloud Engineer. Two hackathon first places. Currently building in stealth. Not here to add features — here to build companies that last.

Technical
Visionary
Build from first principles. Own the full stack — from architecture to market. Ship, sell, iterate. Every enduring company starts with someone who refuses to accept "that's how it's done."
GTM
Ship

III

What
I've Built

Founded hospitaljobs.in — a healthcare hiring marketplace — owning product, GTM, and the chicken-and-egg problem from zero. Contributed to Strawberry GraphQL, implementing query batching for production APIs. Won two hackathons building applied ML pipelines. Currently building in stealth.

IV

Reading
List

MY HOLY SCRIPTURES

Built to LastJim Collins
Good to GreatJim Collins
The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
Zero to OnePeter Thiel
How to F*ck Up Your StartupKim Hvidkjaer

V

Conviction
Casseroles

Work should be fun. Excellence in execution is non-negotiable. Rethink everything from first principles. Aggressively adapt to change. These aren't slogans — they're the filters every decision passes through.

Influenced by Built to Last, Good to Great, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Zero to One. Training to think like a long-term CEO, not just a builder.

VI

Let's
Build

Looking to connect with founders, operators, and deeply technical builders who think in decades, not quarters. If you're building something ambitious, let's talk.