Ishaan Narang
CS Student & Technical Founder
Building full-stack SaaS products, AI systems, and data pipelines.
Penn State '27
About Me
I'm a Computer Science student and technical founder with experience building full-stack SaaS products, AI systems, and data pipelines. My focus is on shipping production software and creating real-world impact.
Currently serving as Co-founder & CTO at Surge.events, a B2B SaaS platform for tourism departments. I'm also the Technical Lead for Penn State's Machine Learning Club, where I lead AI development and educational initiatives.
I've won hackathons at Y Combinator, CalHacks, and MHacks — building everything from legal enforcement AI agents to autonomous resale platforms.
Quick Facts
Experience
Building products and leading teams at the intersection of technology and impact.
Co-founder & CTO
Surge.events
- ›Architected and built a multi-tenant B2B SaaS platform enabling tourism departments to aggregate, analyze, and publish local event data.
- ›Shipped MVP in under 4 weeks using Next.js, Supabase, and n8n; onboarded first paying municipal customer immediately post-launch.
- ›Designed scalable event ingestion pipelines with Elasticsearch-backed semantic search and real-time user interaction tracking.
- ›Led product strategy, customer onboarding, and API integrations with municipal and third-party data partners.
Technical Lead
Machine Learning Club
- ›Led the development of an AI chatbot that offers comprehensive information about Penn State's resources, enhancing accessibility and support for students.
- ›Organized and led AI literacy seminars for first-year students, focusing on practical applications of artificial intelligence.
- ›Presented a talk on "Advanced Transformer Architectures and Their Applications," drawing in an audience of over 50 students.
- ›Increased club membership to over 100 by outreach and engagement strategies, boosting the club's visibility and influence.
Technical Skills
A full-stack toolkit for building production systems from end to end.
Programming
Web & Backend
AI & Data
Cloud & DevOps
Systems & Tooling
Projects
Award-winning hackathon projects and production systems.
Automated Legal & IP Enforcement Agent
3rd Place • $5,000 PrizeWinner – Hack the Stackathon @ Y Combinator
Built an automated enforcement system to detect privacy, procedural, and IP rights violations across company legal surfaces. Implemented continuous web crawling and change detection to identify missing disclosures and non-compliant workflows.
- ✓Mapped findings to specific statutory and IP rights
- ✓Generated regulator-ready complaints and cease-and-desist documents
- ✓Awarded $5,000 prize at YC-hosted hackathon
AgentOverflow
Best Use of Elastic AgentsWinner – Best Use of Elastic Agents @ CalHacks 12.0
Built a platform to capture, validate, and reuse AI problem–solution pairs to stop prompt spirals. A Stack Overflow for the AI era that enables real-time injection of validated fixes into LLM sessions.
- ✓Implemented Elasticsearch hybrid (vector + keyword) search
- ✓Built custom MCP server for context-aware AI agents
- ✓Node.js backend with real-time LLM session integration
deCluttered.ai
Best Fetch.ai HackWinner – Best Fetch.ai Hack @ MHacks 2025
Engineered Fetch.ai autonomous agents to automate resale workflows—item detection, pricing optimization, and buyer negotiation. A complete end-to-end resale pipeline using multi-agent coordination.
- ✓Integrated YOLO object detection for item identification
- ✓Built resale pricing model and marketplace listing automation
- ✓Multi-agent coordination using Fetch.ai Agentverse
Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
B.S. in Computer Science and Math
College of Engineering
Minor in Entrepreneurship
Expected May 2027
Relevant Coursework
Get in Touch
Interested in collaborating or have a question? I'd love to hear from you.
ishaan.narang@psu.edu
Phone
+1 (814) 826-8818
linkedin.com/in/ishaannarang22/
GitHub
github.com/ishaannarang22
Currently based in