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Building Rolemate · Rutgers University CS + Data Science

AdvikBhatt.

Being the change I wish to see in the world. Building Rolemate. 7× hackathon winner. Rutgers CS + Data Science. Saxophonist, drummer, builder of things that didn't exist before.

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Webb's First Deep Field. James Webb Space Telescope, NIRCam. July 11, 2022. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

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VCs & founders in the room

voted Rolemate onto the ClickHouse podium

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hackathon finishes

JPMC · ElevenLabs · McKinsey · DeepMind

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years on alto sax

jazz + wind ensemble

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USACS members

Rutgers' largest CS org · Tech Director

Rolemate. Seven hackathon finishes.

Rolemate replaces the resume with verified proof of skill, a trust layer hiring didn't have. Around it: 1st at J.P. Morgan Chase × Replit × Campfire, 1st at Emergence AI × Nebius × Tavily, 2nd at the Emotionally Intelligent AI Hackathon with ElevenLabs × Veris × Tavus × Redis at a16z NY Tech Week, podiums at McKinsey with QuantumTrack and at ClickHouse with Rolemate itself. New things, built under a clock.

USACS Tech. RAISE. GMS Venture Lab. Rutgers DSC.

Directing tech for Rutgers' largest CS org (500+ members) and helping run UHACCS. A founding member and organizer of RAISE, the Rutgers AI Safety Exchange. Co-designed the inaugural GMS Venture Lab, a health-tech accelerator that took eight teams from idea to MVP. Planning two datathons with real constraints for the year ahead. Rooms built so students leave having shipped something that didn't exist when they walked in.

Saxophone. Drums. Camera. Kitchen.

Jazz improvisation is playing something that's never been played, in real time. Ten years on alto sax trained that, along with the timing and listening I bring to a demo at minute 59. Drums keep me loose. Photography trains noticing what everyone else walked past. Cooking is making something new under constraints.

The record

Proof has always looked like this.

Real photographs from the public archive, made by the people who were actually there. No stock, no renders, nothing generated. Each one is named, dated, and credited, because that's what proof is.

The Wright Flyer lifting off at Kitty Hawk, Orville Wright piloting, Wilbur running alongside
First FlightJohn T. Daniels. December 17, 1903. Library of Congress.Daniels had never taken a photograph before. Twelve seconds, 120 feet, one frame of proof: never been done, then done.
Charlie Parker playing alto saxophone with Tommy Potter, Miles Davis, and Max Roach at the Three Deuces, New York
Charlie Parker at the Three DeucesWilliam P. Gottlieb. ca. August 1947. Library of Congress, William P. Gottlieb Collection.Bird on alto, Miles beside him. Improvisation is composing in public, in real time. Nobody did it like Parker.
Earth rising over the lunar horizon, photographed by William Anders aboard Apollo 8
EarthriseWilliam Anders, Apollo 8. December 24, 1968. NASA.Three people went farther than anyone ever had. The picture they brought back was of everyone else.

Music taught me to improvise.
Hackathons taught me to ship.

Improv is playing what’s never been played · shipping is proving it helps

  • Rolemate

    Building it

  • CGI

    Software Engineering

  • Voya Financial

    Data & Software Engineering

  • NSF I-Corps

    Customer discovery · Team Entrnt

  • USACS

    Tech Director

  • Rutgers DSC

    Co-Director of Competition

The point

Technology is a tool for utopia.

The only point of technology is authenticity, people together, and building the world you actually want. Humans made these tools because humans want to reach utopia. Every project on this site answers to that. The credentials are receipts; the discoveries are the point.

Every light on the night side is people who found each other in the dark.

Where this comes from

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