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Systems builder. Martial artist.Bengaluru, India

Dhruv
Shetty.

15 years old.
Building from first principles.

I build deterministic healthcare auditing engines and traffic fluid-dynamics infrastructure. Outside of code, I’m an 8th-level Kalaripayattu martial artist.

Explore my work

Selected work

Real problems. Systems built to solve them.

Founder & solo developer

CurAudit

Live

Making hospital pricing answerable to the patient.

CurAudit compares itemized US medical bills against hospitals’ federally mandated price transparency files, flags charges worth questioning, and generates dispute packets with traceable evidence.

MuPDF WebAssembly redacts patient identifiers locally in the browser before upload. Streaming parsers handle machine-readable files with millions of rows, matching billing codes against published cash and negotiated rates. The comparisons run in deterministic code.

Visit curaudit.com

Founder & systems architect

Zelvo

In development

Clear the road before the ambulance arrives.

An emergency vehicle traffic signal preemption engine for dense cities. Zelvo uses Lighthill–Whitham–Richards kinematic wave theory to model traffic density and backward shockwave speeds, going beyond GPS geofencing.

It coordinates five to six signals sequentially to flush standing queues ahead of an ambulance while managing cross-street congestion. Validated in SUMO across multi-intersection grids; these are simulation results, not road-trial outcomes.

46.8%

less ambulance travel time

0 sec

signal wait in simulation

Validated in SUMO
Simulation of Urban MObility

Civic & early projects

MLA Meter

A civic tech web app for Bengaluru residents to report local infrastructure issues and track government responsiveness rankings.

The person
behind the systems.

Code, discipline, and a lot of practice.

I’m a 15-year-old developer and founder based in Bengaluru. I build software that solves messy infrastructure and data bottlenecks using math and deterministic code, rather than wrapping every problem in AI.

I’ve trained in Kalaripayattu, an ancient Indian martial art, for seven years, since age eight. I’m currently at the 8th level, training with sticks, daggers, double swords, and sword and shield, and rank second in my kalari.

Through martial arts practice and public performances, I was inducted as a Youth Member of the International Dance Council (CID) at UNESCO.

Along the way

  • IIT Madras

    Pitched my startup and met founders of billion-dollar companies at age 14.

  • USAII Global AI Hackathon

    Global Finalist, High School track. Placed first out of 320 teams in the readiness qualifier.

  • International Dance Council

    Youth Member, CID at UNESCO.

  • Kalaripayattu

    Seven years of training. Level 8 weapons proficiency.

  • Harvard CS50P

    Completed the Introduction to Programming with Python course.