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112Varad Pandare
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Pimpri, Maharashtra, India · Founding Engineer at Bulkease · Theatre Practitioner at Pravah · BTech Manufacturing, IIT
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Varad Pandare @varad-oss · Oct 31
Yay, I joined ASX today. Looking forward to meeting folks on this platform to make meaningful connections.Varad Pandare @varad-oss · Oct 21
(Disclaimer: 2K ka investment, 2 Lakh ka profit scheme leaked ahead). At 12:02 a.m., our hackathon idea was dead. At 12:03 a.m., we decided to disrupt the momos industry by taking on Suraj Da (our campus' overpriced momos entrepreneur). At 12:10 a.m., we got bored of food and realised it was easier to compete with Samsung Electronics instead. At 1:21 a.m., we made our first commit to a Wear OS app built for the Galaxy Watch, from scratch. What happened next? We went on to win the Heat & Water track at AWS Environmental Hacks 2026 🏆 (And Suraj Da is still safe, though now we are not sure for how long 🤔) Heat risk is very much a personal thing but most of the warnings that we get aren't. WHO estimate is around 489,000 heat-related deaths per year (based on 2000-2019 data). For instance, 12 candidates died during a 10km run at the Jharkhand excise constable recruitment drive in 2024. A citywide alert won't tell a runner when their body is telling them to stop, nor will it tell a coach which of the 20 people they've got to look after. That's why we built WristHeat: it uses smartwatch data to estimate individual heat strain on AWS and presents it as GREEN, AMBER or RED. For the individual it's a signal to stop or slow down (an ignored RED alert will email an emergency contact). For the coach it's a signal to identify who needs to be looked at, a spoken warning in both English and Hindi and an escalation if no one responds. An incident only closes when the individual's data shows they are recovered, not when someone just says "I've seen it". The difficult bit wasn't the dashboard at all. It was the data. We'd hit a gap in the Samsung Health and Health Connect ecosystem: neither gave us the live heart-rate stream we needed. So we had to build the missing link ourselves, getting live data from a Galaxy Watch to a server we controlled. With just one day to go we built our own Wear OS app. While filming the demo, everything worked perfectly, except the watch kept dropping the campus Wi-Fi. Our highly innovative solution? Switching to a phone hotspot. It worked. We are, indeed, built different. (btw a snake {a real one, not a homosapien} was about 5m away as we were filming the demo, he looked closely and seemed to appreciate our work, asked us to tag him in the post, but I couldn't find his LinkedIn, can someone help me find it in the comments? 🐍) AWS: Built on API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, Polly and Cognito. Deployed with AWS CDK. Massive thanks to Suyog Gund, Sahvendra and Varsham Gupta for all the technical and moral support (yes, even with the snake), and to WeMakeDevs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for making it all possible. Until then, on to the next one, Suraj Da, we are coming for you. 😼 Demo, write-up and code in the first comment. 👇 #AWS #WeMakeDevs #Hackathon #WearOS #Serverless Oh, here for the investment scheme? Go check the price of Claude Pro.
