Ascendance Foundry
Youngest hire at an AI-native consulting firm. Building Frankie, a bookkeeping app that takes SMBs from bank records to financial reporting — including an ingestion engine for credit card, chequing, and brokerage statements.
Building Frankie @ Ascendance Foundry📍 Toronto, Canada
Hey, I'm Hemit Patel!
I'm a Grade 12 developer building impactful, AI-driven software emphasizing automation, agents, and thoughtful design.
Whether it's shipping at YC-backed startups or working on personal projects, I focus on turning manual processes into self-running systems.
I'm also a TEDx speaker, and these days I'm building at Ascendance Foundry, an AI-native consulting firm where I'm the youngest hire on the team (reach out if you're curious!).
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Current + Previous Work Experience
Miniswap (YC F25)
Worked directly with YC founders to help double the product catalogue: built an AI-powered ingestion pipeline with GPT-4o Vision, automated runs with Temporal (~10 hrs/week saved), and shipped a QA agent on the Claude Agent SDK.
BYCIG
Led development of BYCIG MKT, an open-source stock market simulation platform with buying, selling, and shorting of stocks pulled live from the Yahoo Finance API.
TEDxMcFarren Boulevard
Gave a TEDx talk at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus on how diversity of thought and open debate uphold a free and fair society.
Projects
Some things I've developed over the past few years:
View ProjectDailySAT
Aug 2024 – Sep 2025 · Next.js, MongoDB, Redis
A platform to help students prepare for the SAT via a question bank, with a gamified experience of in-game credits and awards. Over 100,000 lifetime visitors and ~200 daily active users.View ProjectTalem
Jun 2024 – Aug 2025 · React.js, Firebase
A platform that empowers students with information on internships, college admissions, and extracurricular opportunities. Over 200,000 lifetime visitors and funding raised from Emergent Ventures.View ProjectTrashify
Jul 2024 – Aug 2024 · Next.js, Python, RPC
An app that finds the nearest trash bins to your location. Implemented a caching system to save API calls to an external service, which optimized response times too.Everyone Classroom
Jun 2023 – Feb 2024 · JavaScript
An LMS system geared towards STEM students, built for Everyone STEM.Reach Out!
I love learning about what others are building — feel free to reach out through the form below, or connect with me on LinkedIn.
— built by Hemit, one commit at a time ✌️