anshul mahajan

22 y/o engineer, cto at slush

i'm a self taught software engineer based in helsinki, finland. obsessed with engineering scalable systems and building products that are smooth. currently turning slush into the world's best startup event platform.

email / linkedin / github / blog

(cool) things i've done

• finalist at national science fair (top 1% of 10,000+)

• founded a startup in 9th grade (€1,000 in angel funding)

• gold medalist at the international astronomy and astrophysics competition (Top 0.1% of 8500+ participants)

• 3x national finalist at RoboCup Junior India

experience

slush (2023–present) — software engineer → cto. building the world's leading startup event platform. engineering the systems behind 25k+ attendees.

aalto university (2023) — research assistant. multithreaded event processing. robotics arm control. software ui.

aaltoes (2022-2023) — software engineer. built a full stack event management platform for aalto students.

byte club (2017-2022) — founding member → co-president. competed with the best high school compsci clubs in new delhi.

auxin (2019) — Built an NLP Chrome extension "startup" in 9th grade; raised €1,000 in angel funding.

projects

slush — engineered a recommendation system increasing CTR by +25%. Built and maintained over 10 projects touching 100k+ users.

lookout — app to crowdsource grassroots data about municipal services, mapped fast, disparities exposed, cities leveled up. 3rd place The Global Hack (€5000) and MIT Grant (€1000)

pulsato — AI voice agent that enables employees to have short, meaningful check-in conversations about their wellbeing. >

auxin (2019) — Built an NLP Chrome extension "startup" in 9th grade; raised €1,000 in angel funding.

writing

week 0 — it's a hot bot summer

kickoff for the summer robotics challenge — three months of embodied ai, a weekly build log starting in otaniemi.

13 jun 2026 robotics

the building begins again

stepping into the role of cto at slush — from lego bricks in new delhi to building foundations for what comes next.

27 feb 2026 career

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