Updates from Aditya Karad

July 2026

Aditya launched Podcast Index to compare the companies represented by guests on the Acquired and Cheeky Pint podcasts.

Summer 2026

Aditya explored coding-agent harnesses, user interfaces, and agent architectures. He rebuilt EarlyApply around agents that generate and repair job-board scrapers, maintain generated scraper code, and run parallel workers. EarlyApply and a Notion-native version reached the finals of the Notion Hackathon. He also began more structured cardio training and studied the Johns Hopkins poker course.

Summer 2025

Aditya joined Oracle's Database group as a Member of Technical Staff on the GoldenGate team.

2023–2025

Aditya completed an MS in Computer Science at UC Irvine, worked on Apache Texera and database coursework, and served as a teaching assistant. In summer 2024 he worked at AppLovin on backend systems. He previously worked full-time at JPMorgan Chase from July 2022 through August 2023.

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