Ananth Preetham

Founder, ML engineer, professional rabbit-holer.

Currently building Pomelo, a platform to learn anything.

Built an AI voice agent for F1 visa interview prep that grew to 7,000 users. Knew it had legs the day checkout broke and students swiped every card in their wallet rather than give up.

Spent two summers digging at a Roman-Carthaginian site in Sardinia, then automated the boring part: pipelines that turn dig photos into 3D models of stratigraphic units.

Outside of that: hiking, national parks, cheap-flight backpacking trips, a running list of local foods to try, and being picky about movies and TV (3.7+ Letterboxd, 7.5+ IMDb).

Ananth holding a tray of grilled short ribs at a street food festival

Field research for the food list.