Earth Stats
Web app, live
The planet, counted live. Population, energy, emissions and health ticking every second from open data, plus a quiz, country views and short launch films I made for social.
AymaanShahzad
Energy engineer by training. Business at Meesho by day. Building toward a company of my own.
I.
On building
I like problems where the data is messy, the users are real and someone has to decide what to do next.
I grew up in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, and went to IIT Bombay to study energy. Somewhere between the labs and the hostel I found I liked building things even more than studying them. In my first year I taught myself full-stack development and hand-coded my first personal website, line by line, just to see if I could.
Then came Voom Cabs, a cab fare comparison startup that won a pre-incubation grant on campus, and a string of internships that pulled me toward business: the CEO's office at MCaffeine, growth advisory at Frost & Sullivan, credit automation at Evam Finance. I also ran internship outreach for my department through the Placement Office.
Today I work on content discovery and churn at Meesho, and at night I build things like Earth Stats and Godly. I also build small tools just for myself, like an agent that emails me the morning's energy news and an app that plans my money. The long game is a company of my own, ideally one that fixes something broken in how the world makes and uses energy.
- Studied
- Energy Science & Engineering
- Built
- Earth Stats, Godly
- Writes about
- Energy
II.
Work
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Meesho
Senior Associate, Business ManagementBuilt a review-ranking model that scores 115M+ reviews at 96% precision without an LLM, and automated the team's weekly metrics story.
2026 – now -
Evam Finance
Business Analyst InternBuilt a React and Python system that turns company reports into credit memos in minutes instead of hours.
2026 -
Frost & Sullivan
Growth Advisory InternFound a $28M market gap by mapping 110+ firms. Left with a recommendation letter from the Principal Consultant.
2025 -
MCaffeine
CEO's Office, StrategyCut delivery time by 1.2 days and lifted inventory efficiency 42%. Left with a recommendation letter from the CEO.
2025 -
Placement Office
Institute Internship CoordinatorLed my department to a 63% rise in internships, about one in twelve of all campus selections.
2024 – 25
Energy is still the thing I'm most curious about.Move through the field
III.
Field notes
Four years of energy at IIT Bombay, and a habit of explaining it to anyone who'll listen.
The courses I loved most were the hands-on ones: designing real energy systems, testing renewables in the lab, and modelling how energy moves through a system. Alongside them I took entrepreneurship, design thinking, economics and energy policy, plus coursework in data science and machine learning.
Now I write about the newest energy research and technology on LinkedIn, in plain language for people who don't work in the field. It keeps me close to the problems I want to build around.
I also keep a research notebook on energy startups: accelerators around the world, robots that build solar farms, and how power gets to data centres.
- Energy Systems Design LabLab
- Renewable Energy LabLab
- Energy Systems ModellingCore
- Electrochemical Energy StorageElective
- Energy Policy & PlanningElective
- Fintech EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship
IV.
Made by hand*
* Hands on the keyboard, mostly. Some of it typed, some of it vibed, all of it shipped.
Godly
Web app, built in a day
A free email that brings you one sacred text every morning, from your own tradition. Six faiths, each with its own look.
Voom Cabs
Startup, founding team, 2025 – 26. Closed
One screen comparing fares and arrival times across India's cab apps. Won a pre-incubation grant from IIT Bombay's entrepreneurship school. We wound it down in 2026: the product depended on data the cab platforms don't openly share, and the policy and feasibility hurdles outweighed what we could build around them. The lesson I kept: check what your product depends on before you build on it.
The first portfolio
React, 2023
My second-year site, hand-coded line by line. This one is its sequel.
V.
Sound
My first money ever came from selling hip-hop beats on Fiverr, in high school.
Music came before everything else. I got my first guitar in class 7, and years later bought my first electric guitar with my first internship stipend.
I still produce in FL Studio. Hip-hop is where I started, but I make other styles too. The track below, Growing Apart, is one of them: I produced it with two artists, Paul Perges and Ipseity, working together entirely over Discord.
Growing Apart3:05
Paul Perges × Ipseity, produced by me. We made it together over Discord.
Growing Apart
VI.
Honours
- All India Rank 2106 in JEE Advanced2022
- SAT India Top Performer Award, top 4% of 2M+ test takers worldwide2021
- Certificate of Excellence from the Placement Office, for a record 38% rise in Day-1 internship selections2025
- Recommendation letters from the CEO of MCaffeine and a Principal Consultant at Frost & Sullivan2025
- Nominated for a semester exchange at the University of the Basque Country, Spain2025
VII.
Off the clock
- On the pitch
- Football and volleyball, and shot put and discus in college.
- At the board
- Chess, a lot of it.
- On stage
- I enjoy public speaking, and will happily argue either side.
- On the shelf
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Hover a book to pull it out · 5 read, 6 up next
Books about building, thinking and living well. - On the road
- I love travelling more than almost anything. Always planning the next trip, and one day, a life abroad. Learning Spanish on Duolingo to get ready for it.
Places so far
- Dubai2018
- Vietnam2026
- JabalpurWhere I grew up
- MumbaiFour years at IIT Bombay
- BengaluruHome, for now
Drag to spin
Building something in energy, or just want to talk? Write to me.
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