About me
About me:
I'm Aditya Pandey, I'm 26, and I love building things that create joy!I grew up in Princeton, studied at NYU, and worked for a couple of years in the world of Financial Markets. In mid 2022, I decided to move from New York City to Bahraich, a remote district on the border of India and Nepal, to build solar for small farmers.Currently I'm the founder of Atticus which is basically "Google Alerts" for lawyers. Our product processes hundreds of thousands of case updates every day, and is used by top Indian corporate law firms.
Always open to working on something awesome! You can reach me at: aditya.pandey@nyu.edu
My Work:
Here's a sample of some of the more technical projects I've built:
Additionally, here are a few fun projects I've created (including the live background on this website!):
Timeline:
Building Atticus!
Our Website (Link Below)
Alerts, our latest product launched in April '26
Started building Atticus in August 2025, after an accident sidelined me from field work at Oorja. Life is mysterious though: one fine day a close friend’s law firm faced a critical data challenge. Fast forward a few months: we are now the fastest data provider in the space, trusted by many of India’s top corporate law firms.
Pocket AI for Farmers
Dhoop is an AI assistant for smallholder farmers, built on the latest Gemini suite. It features a robust toolkit for solar irrigation booking, soil health testing, seed sourcing, and localized advisory. It took three rounds of user testing in the intense North Indian summer to get it right; I was saved only by the shade of our solar panels.
Creative Computer Vision!
Satellites are a great way to find underirrigated land, in need of solar pumps. This snap is the post Oorja effect, green paddy fields all over!
Computer Vision for security and monitoring...but this user mistook panels for a boardwalk?
Fun selfie with my Nanpara team, the best people around!
India is a massive dust bowl, and solar attracts it like anything. This one needed a shower!
We had a blast plugging into the latest Copernicus snapshots, zooming into potential operating areas to map out our next motorbike route. It was admittedly less fun building security camera detection to mitigate theft, but the result stands: Bahraich is a high-tech hub now.
Digital Payments for Rural India
Training our village level operators, who themselves had never made payments, but who would go on to lead this revolution.
Remembering the sheer joy when a dynamic UPI code loads works: Razorpay was a huge help on this!
Imagine creating a mobile app that can make seamless digital payments, while being run on 10 year old Android OS with little to no available memory, extremely spotty internet, and designed for users who have never ever made a digital payment before. We imagined it, and built it.
IoT and Remote Monitoring in Bahraich
Small starts: arduino + RS232 port + 2x pulse sensors + hope
We quickly moved to a more mature setup, complete with power regulation and battery and weatherproofing.
SOLLIMM: Our collaboration with the University of Southampton Electrical Engineering Dept, a huge help in our IoT story.
Whats the best way to reduce operating costs in a distributed solar asset network? Convert manual monitoring with no data to operational oversight using IoT devices. This was easier said than done: M2M networks (which hadn't moved past 3G in the area), and extremely weak signals were the bottle neck, and our assets were too distributed for local data meshes. The solution: a custom hardware proof of concept + software resets on legacy 2G tech, with a purpose buit MQTT server to handle processing on the server side, to bring 200 solar assets online.
Funny Moments on the Field
Traded in the NPQR trains for the 8 hour UP Roadways bus journey!
Ashish, my closest confidant on the field, using the local kids as an excuse to stop for sugarcane juice.
Traffic is a universal problem.
Guess where I was squeezed in?
Some fun photos of life working in rural solar!
Fundraising & Fellowship
Setting up the office in Nanpara, a lovely shade of yellow.
Early phase of setting up the engineering teams warehouse.
Giving the graduation speech at the end of TLF!
2023 was intense: I'd joined Oorja, still one of highest impact social enterprises in the world, on a mission to empower millions small farmers with solar powered services. We were growing operationally, building internal data systems, and fundraising. In parallell, I was at the Berkeley/Plaksha Tech Leaders Fellowship (basically a fulltime PostGrad in AI/ML and entrepreneurship). Oh, and I was building carbon sequestration models on the side at SBSF, a German AgTech. Incredibly rewarding year, incredibly tough!
Gambling on a Dream.
Working for Barclays has its perks, especially when it comes to the Premier League :)
The views from 745 7th Ave, one of a kind :)
One way ticket to Delhi, circa August 2022
My first pitch in India
I spent 6 fantastic years in the greatest city in the world, and was extremely grateful to work for one of the coolest financial services firms there. I can't speak about a lot of it, but it was a hard fast paced environment that honed my skils in problem centric development as well as cross team collaboration. I left my job, and New York City, both on the same day, on a one way ticket to New Delhi. A gamble on a dream.