Suveen Ellawela
Currently, Founding Engineer at Cortex AI (YC F25).
Previously, studied Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore, built web agents at TinyFish ($47M series A), did exchange at Stanford MS&E and co-founded FoloUp - Open source voice interviews for hiring (1.1k Github stars).
Current interests include, Physical AI, AI Agents, RL, Software Engineering and Startups.
Love building, running AI experiments, learning new things and travelling to new places.
I build stuff. Software and hardware. And I take it a bit seriously.
Multi-Round Avalon Agents — AI agents playing social deception games. 188 games simulated with persistent memory.
TimeFold — Turn photo albums into 3D immersive memories using Gaussian splats.
FoloUp — Open source AI powered voice interviews. 1.1k GitHub stars, 600+ interviews conducted.
Codenames AI — Codenames, but AI plays AI. 7k+ views, #7 on Hacker News.
DrawDash — Proactive agentic whiteboards. First image tab-completion demo.
Photo2Movie — Convert photos to video montage under a minute. Built in 2 hours.
AI See — Wearable assistive device for visually impaired. Multimodal LLMs, RAG, and BLE.
Mintyard — Gaming arenas for NFT collections. Microsoft for Startups program.
Bera Tiles — Sri Lankan drums X Piano Tiles. 750+ downloads, 130+ 5-star reviews.
Work
Other Stuff
Here's me during a hike in Vietnam.
Recently, I walked across Singapore!
Follow my instagram page where I share some photos I take from my phone and my papershoot camera.
I am trying to learn these days.
I like anything competitive.
Features
2026 Mar - Talk on AI Agents Playing Avalon at Singapore AI & Robotics Meetup [Talk]
2025 Dec - DrawDash: Proactive Agentic Whiteboards [Publication (arXiv)]
2025 Mar - Strivers Chat Podcast [Podcast]
2024 Sep - AI + Global Health 24hr Hackathon in SF [Hackathon Win]
2024 Jun - 50km walk across Singapore [https://walkacrossacountry.com]
2023 Nov - Can AI Models Summarize Your Diary Entries? Investigating Utility of Abstractive Summarization for Autobiographical Text [Publication]
2022 Jul - Exploring the future [News paper article]
2021 Aug - Recognizing Reid Avenue's Finest [News paper article]
2017 Jan - 'Pentathlon': Five rounds, one finale [News paper article]
2017 Jan - SIRASA Pentathlon Quiz Competition 2016 [Online article]