# Narayana Aaditya Ganeshkumar

> Narayana Aaditya Ganeshkumar, known as Nars, is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Skillsync, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company. His background combines engineering education, human resource management, consulting and product work at Juspay. He co-created the Ideal Gas newsletter and has explored tools for understanding engineering contributions, inspecting prompts and sharing coding activity. Skillsync now focuses on searchable, portable AI conversations and context.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Skillsync
- **Organizations:** Skillsync, Juspay, Deloitte, Ideal Gas
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, PGDM, Human Resource Management, XLRI Jamshedpur, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded Skillsync with Nishant Joshi and joined Y Combinator Winter 2026., Reports helping grow an open-source Rust project from zero to more than 30,000 GitHub stars., Co-authored The Inverse Conway Maneuver, published in the Hyperswitch GitHub wiki in June 2023.

## Career timeline

- **2020–2022** — Consultant at Deloitte; subsequently listed as Senior Consultant in 2022.
- **2021–2023** — Co-created Ideal Gas with Dhrumeel Dutia.
- **2022–2024** — Associate Product Manager at Juspay.
- **2023** — Published payments essays and co-authored The Inverse Conway Maneuver with Nishant Joshi.
- **2024** — Began role as Skillsync co-founder and CEO in December, according to Crunchbase; YC lists the company founding year as 2025.
- **2025** — Published Prompt Inspector and GitHub Aura project posts.
- **2026** — Skillsync joined Y Combinator Winter 2026; current product focuses on portable AI sessions.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Skillsync with Nishant Joshi and joined Y Combinator Winter 2026.
- Reports helping grow an open-source Rust project from zero to more than 30,000 GitHub stars.
- Co-authored The Inverse Conway Maneuver, published in the Hyperswitch GitHub wiki in June 2023.
- Co-created the Ideal Gas newsletter with Dhrumeel Dutia.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Published The jazzification of building software on June 29, describing Campfire and collaborative live sessions.
- **2026-10** — As checked October 11, Skillsync’s website and YC listing describe portable, searchable AI chats and the open-source txcript engine; this is a verification date, not a dated launch announcement.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/narayanaaaditya/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/narsagna
- GitHub: https://github.com/NarsGNA

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Last updated: 2026-10-11