portfolio · 2026 · age 18 open to internships

Devansh Aggarwal

18. Still learning, still building.
studying · IVB · IIM Bangalore BBA (DBE)
from · Karnal → based in · Chennai

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Things I've built

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madrasi-pi.vercel.app
Circle Tamil screen: everyday phrases with pronunciation
tamil
Circle Travel screen: comparing the cost of getting around Chennai
travel
Circle Explore screen: places worth going and what they cost
explore

01what it is

A mobile web app that helps students new to Chennai settle in: everyday Tamil, travel costs and places to go.

02what i built

The full app in Next.js on Vercel: Tamil phrases for real situations with pronunciation, a fare comparison across train, bus, metro and auto, and a guide to places with cost and crowd levels.

03challenges

Many phones have no Tamil voice, so the app falls back to an approximate pronunciation instead of going silent. And there's no sign-up wall: it works as a guest from the first tap.

04what i learned

Building for one specific person in one city makes a product far more useful than building for everyone.

05results

Live at madrasi-pi.vercel.app.

localhost:8501 — NIFTY Volatility Explorer
Call and put volatility smile for the 29 Sep 2026 NIFTY expiry, with implied volatility plotted against strike
volatility smile
Relative value table comparing each contract's implied volatility with nearby strikes, plus the Greeks for a selected contract
cheap / expensive
  • 256contracts in one snapshot
  • 174priced · 82 filtered out
  • 99tests passing
  • dailyauto-collected from NSE

01what it is

A tool that shows whether NIFTY options are cheap or expensive, by working out the volatility each option's price implies.

02what i built

An NSE data collector, a Black-Scholes-Merton engine that solves for implied volatility and the Greeks, a database of daily snapshots, and a Streamlit dashboard with the volatility smile.

03challenges

Real market data is messy: untraded, tiny or stale quotes give nonsense results. Each one is filtered out with a clear reason, and the collector copes with NSE blocking automated requests.

04what i learned

Markets don't follow the textbook: at-the-money volatility was about 8.6% while far puts were above 70%. And a "cheap" signal is only as good as the quote behind it.

05results

Prices a full NIFTY option chain every run, with 99 tests passing.

(02)aboutstill learning, still building
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DA

I’m driven by the questions behind the answers, the patterns behind the numbers, and the strategy hidden within complexity.

I don't chase complexity for its own sake, but when I find something worth understanding, I strip it down to the foundation. My instinct is to break things down, not to overcomplicate, but to understand them deeply before rebuilding them in a better way. Whether it's a problem, a person, or a system, I start with the smallest moving parts and work my way up, connecting threads until the bigger picture becomes clear.

I work best alone at first, not out of isolation, but focus.
I'm most alive when asking: Why is this the way it is? I want the why, the how, and then the what's next.
I want to create something that outlasts me, ideas that outlive me, frameworks others can expand on. I'm drawn to people who can think independently, speak with clarity and depth, and devise solutions in real-time.

I’m still learning, still building. I don’t think ideas are meant to end with the person who creates them. If something I create sparks a thought that someone else takes further, that, to me, is a meaningful impact.

Open to internships.

name
Devansh Aggarwal
age
18
from
Karnal
based
Chennai
studying
IVB · IIM Bangalore BBA (DBE)
now
Investing in myself

(the journey so far)

Always had the itch
to make money

  1. 01 class 3 → 11

    Played football at national level

    Years of training and multiple nationals. Then I made the hard call that football wasn't going to be my career.

    multiple nationals9 years
  2. 02 class 9 → 10

    Built a dropshipping store

    My first go at making money online. I built the store from scratch; it never launched, but the itch stuck.

    first businesse-commerce
  3. 03 next

    Traded with my own money

    Made profits trading crypto, then moved into Indian markets. Took real losses in options too.

    cryptoindian marketsoptions
  4. 04 now

    Investing in myself

    Still learning, still building.

    open to internships