Builder/Founder/Engineer
I build at the intersection of AI, hardware, and real-world systems, from smart glasses and face-authenticated payments to new ways of bringing intelligence into the physical world.
Divyanshu Dubey
Bhopal, India
Products and systems I've built while exploring how AI can interact with the real world.
Enfacial
Face-authenticated payments for campuses.
Face-authenticated payments for campuses.
A payment and identity system designed for environments where users shouldn't need to carry phones, cards or QR codes.
Ocuvision
AI-powered smart glasses for intelligence in the physical world.
AI-powered smart glasses for intelligence in the physical world.
A wearable computing system combining embedded hardware, AI, computer vision and software to provide real-time assistance.
The most interesting computing systems of the next decade may not live inside another app or browser tab. I'm interested in systems that can perceive context, understand the physical world, and make technology feel less like an interface.
The capabilities of AI become much more interesting when software can perceive and interact with real environments.
The best technology often removes steps instead of adding another screen.
Some problems become possible only when software, sensors and computation are designed together.
I'd rather test an idea with a working system than spend months debating whether it should work.
How can computers understand context without constantly demanding our attention?
What happens when AI moves beyond browsers and screens?
Can authentication become invisible without sacrificing privacy or security?
What comes after the smartphone-centric model of computing?
Find something people actually struggle with.
Develop a strong opinion about how it could work differently.
Build the smallest system capable of testing that opinion.
Put it in front of real people quickly.
Understand what was wrong.
Improve, reposition, or stop.
“I care more about discovering whether something should exist than proving that my first idea was correct.”
Building has changed my mind about a lot of things.
Lesson
A technically strong product doesn't automatically create demand. Distribution has to be designed as seriously as the product.
Lesson
Better technology doesn't remove trust, procurement and deployment friction.
Lesson
A product usually needs one obvious reason to exist before it needs ten features.
Lesson
Stopping something can be the correct outcome of an experiment.
A timeline of things I've tried, built and learned.
Started seriously building software and experimenting with products.
Worked on products and startup experiments.
Started building increasingly ambitious systems across AI, hardware and real-world applications.
Focused increasingly on intelligent systems, distribution, and finding problems worth spending years on.
Expected B.Tech Computer Science graduation.
still building.
Across product, AI, systems and infrastructure, enough to take an idea from concept to a working system.
Intelligent products and experimenting with new startup ideas.
Also open to unusually high-agency roles where I can build close to founders, own large technical problems, and move quickly.