Austin, Texas Westlake High School
Portrait of Advait Johari

Student engineer

I build robotics software, AI tools & research systems.

I build projects where product polish has to hold up against real technical depth: retrieval systems, model evaluation, telemetry, computer vision, and tools people can actually use.

Austin, Texas Westlake High School

Selected work

I build robotics software, AI tools & systems.

Student engineer at Westlake High School. Based in Austin, Texas. Building products where polish holds up against real technical depth.

Stage 01

CadSense

Latest launch, 2026 - A CAD review tool that gives Codex the model context it needs to catch small geometry mistakes before they get handed off.

Stage 02

FRC RAG Platform

Pinned GitHub project, 2025 - A production-ready search system for FIRST Robotics teams that unifies technical documents, robot photos, and CAD models in one knowledge base. Read the case study ->

Stage 03

RAG-Lab

Evaluation framework, 2025 - A modular evaluation lab for Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines with vector, BM25, and hybrid search support.

RAG-Lab product demo

Stage 04

Flux

Driving telemetry app, 2025 - A driving app that connects to vehicle OBD-II hardware, scores driving habits, and turns trip data into clear safety feedback.

Stage 05

Solar Flare Forecasting

Pinned GitHub research, 2025 - A spatial-temporal forecasting system for major solar flares using multi-channel solar data and attention-guided sequence modeling.

Stage 06

Doodle Recognition

Applied computer vision, 2025 - A doodle recognition system trained on Google QuickDraw data that classifies imported drawings with a lightweight image model.

Doodle Recognition product demo

Stage 07

FaceGuard

Computer vision app, 2025 - A real-time facial verification system that compares webcam input against a reference image and reports live match results.

FaceGuard product demo

Stage 08

Teachable Machine Clone

Interactive ML tool, 2025 - A browser-based clone of Google's Teachable Machine for training image models from live webcam examples.

About me

I care about products where technical depth and everyday usability meet.

What I do.

I am based in Austin, Texas, studying at Westlake High School, and building systems across robotics, retrieval, telemetry, computer vision, and developer tooling.

The common thread is making complex engineering work easier to inspect, test, and use. Recent projects include CAD review workflows, robotics search platforms, RAG evaluation labs, and real-time vision tools.

Portrait of Advait Johari

What I'm part of

Advait Johari working beside a competition robot at a FIRST Robotics event.

2023-2026

Robotics

Robotics is where a lot of my software work became real: code had to survive field noise, nervous drivers, weird hardware, and a match clock that does not care about elegant abstractions.

  • Primary software contributor across FTC 3781, FRC 2689, and FRC 2687.
  • Driver/operator and judged awards presenter, including the control systems story behind an Innovation in Control Award.
  • The messy search for past robot ideas is what pushed me to build FRC RAG.
Advait Johari playing water polo and reaching to pass the ball.

2024-2026

Water Polo

Water polo is the most physically demanding part of my week, and it has shaped how I work under pressure: read the field, move early, communicate clearly, and keep making useful decisions when tired.

  • Varsity athlete.
  • District champions in 2024 and 2025.
  • All District Honorable Mention in 2025.
Advait Johari at a Texas DECA event.

2026

DECA

DECA gave me a place to turn product ideas into a business story instead of only a GitHub repo. My event was a startup business plan, so the work had to make sense technically and commercially.

  • Texas DECA State Finalist in a state conference reported at 7,328 competitors from 298 chapters.
  • ICDC Thrive Academy chapter nominee.
  • ~top 3-5% statewide in the event.

Recognition

Programming

  • USACO Gold
  • UIL Computer Science Regional Finalists 2026
  • 1st Place - Indeed 13th Annual Computer Science Competition, out of approximately 40 teams

Robotics

  • Event Finalist - First Robotics Competition, Waco FIRST in Texas District event 2025
  • Event Finalist - First Robotics Competition, Dripping Springs FIRST in Texas District event 2026
  • State UIL Silver Medalist - First Tech Challenge, runner-up alliance out of 23 high schools
  • Innovation and Control Award - First Robotics Competition
  • Connect Award - First Tech Challenge

Business

  • Texas DECA State Finalist | ICDC
  • ICDC Thrive Academy chapter nominee