Hi, I'm Ishaan Samantray

Software Engineer @ Ion

• Software Engineer @ Ion — shipping to the core product: security, reliability, and performance work across the platform
• Research @ NIH National Eye Institute — imaging + AI for retinal disease
• Built Kairos — a multi-agent AI command center that triages anonymous tips by phone & SMS in ~8 seconds
• Founder & former President, Kids For Code — taught 10,000+ students across 37 states & 11 countries, 100+ instructors, 100,000+ YouTube views

Biomedical Engineering + Computer Science at Cornell University. I build software across research and production — from medical-imaging AI at the NIH to agentic AI systems that ship. I like fixing the layer everyone else builds on, and turning research problems into things that actually run.

More at ishaansamantray.com

• Kairos  AI  A multi-agent command center that takes anonymous school-safety tips by phone and SMS and triages each one in about 8 seconds. Built at the YC Call My Agent Hackathon.  (code · demo)
• Ara Co-Pilot  macOS  An AI assistant that transcribes your calls locally with Whisper and surfaces answers from your calendar, email, and notes. Built at the Ara.so × DayDreamers Hackathon.
• Vaxon Space  Web  Designed and built the site for a VLEO satellite startup delivering sub-30cm defense and commercial imaging (ISR) from very low earth orbit.
• Kids For Code  Nonprofit  Founded a coding-education nonprofit and built its platform at kids4code.org — 10,000+ students taught across 37 states and 11 countries.
• AguaClara Website  Web  Cornell webmaster for AguaClara, rebuilding the team's website. I care a lot about clean, fast, well-designed web.