About • PyPath

Our Mission

PyPath is dedicated to making Python programming education accessible, engaging, and effective for learners at all levels. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn coding in a supportive, interactive environment that combines clear explanations with hands-on practice. Through our comprehensive curriculum, interactive exercises, and real-world projects, we empower students to build confidence and master Python programming skills. Our goal is to inspire the next generation of programmers and make coding education a transformative experience for all.

Note: While we each have specific roles listed, our contributions extend across all areas of the platform. We all worked together on development, design, curriculum, and content creation. The roles shown reflect our primary focus areas, but we collaborated on everything.

Adam Issac

Co-Founder / Lead Software Engineer

Senior at Denmark High School

A passionate student and tutor focused on making education accessible and engaging for everyone.

Ritesh Konakanchi

Co-Founder / Lead UX/UI Designer

Senior at Denmark High School

Passionate about education and technology, working to make learning accessible and engaging for everyone.

Prahas Visikamalla

Head of Curriculum

Senior at Denmark High School

Dedicated to creating comprehensive and engaging educational content that helps students master Python programming.

Experience

Personal Equity Portfolio — Co-Manager

Co-managed a long-term equity portfolio achieving triple-digit growth.

Achieved 102% growth, consistently outperforming the S&P 500 through disciplined equity research.
Conducted fundamental analysis, evaluated risk, and diversified holdings to optimize returns.

Coding for a Change — Chief Financial Officer

Managed budgeting and financial planning for a student-led nonprofit.

Coordinated fundraising initiatives generating $100+ to support coding workshops for under-resourced children.
Strengthened financial accountability while working closely with executive leadership.

Tanishq Jewelry — Junior Marketing Intern

Assisted with marketing campaigns and sales initiatives.

Promoted store visits and coupon programs to enhance customer engagement.
Represented the store independently at marketing conferences, demonstrating professionalism and initiative.

Leadership & Skills

Sequoia Club — Co-President

Led community service initiatives supporting local businesses and neighborhoods.

Organized events and volunteer efforts totaling 150+ community service hours.
Built leadership, organizational, and project-management skills through hands-on coordination.

Sloka Class — Volunteer Lead & Junior Tutor

Guided younger students in learning traditional slokas.

Assisted instructors while developing public speaking, mentorship, and cultural leadership skills.

Skills

Equity Research & Portfolio Management (Bloomberg Certified) Financial Analysis & Long-Term Investing Budgeting & Fundraising

Experience

Software Development Intern — Maxeom

Built SQL queries and analytics dashboards for sales team.

Wrote 15+ SQL queries to clean and join 120k rows for analytics.
Built 3 dashboards for the sales team; indexing cut weekly report runtime by 15%.

Software & Business Development Intern — Punch Rewards

Developed front-end features for a restaurant rewards app.

Shipped front-end features for restaurant rewards app.
Supported outreach to onboard 5+ businesses; beta app reached 200+ users.

AI & ML Club — Vice President

Together with Adam, we lead a 70+ member club; running projects, hackathons, and workshops.

Organized AI/ML workshops and competitions; built club curriculum and demo projects.
Led teams and live demos; created slides/code resources for meetings.

Projects

Car Price Predictor — Random Forest and Linear Regression on 10,000 records; mean error $1,100, R² 0.87.
Tesla Stock Forecaster — RNNs in TensorFlow; 62% trend accuracy, 2.1% MAPE.
Image Classification Model — CNN in Keras/TensorFlow; 90% test accuracy across 10 categories.
Pokémon Battle Predictor — Naïve Bayes and decision trees; 88% validation accuracy.

Python Tutor — Coding for a Change

Taught Python programming and problem-solving skills to students.

Taught 15 students weekly online; led projects and coding lessons.
Built core Python and problem-solving skills through hands-on projects.

Certifications

IT Specialist - Python

Python programming proficiency

IT Specialist - Software Development

Core software development skills

IT Specialist - Data Analytics

Analyzing and visualizing data

AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals

Cloud concepts and Azure services

AI-900: Azure AI Fundamentals

AI concepts and Azure AI services

Academics

GPA (Unweighted)

4.0

GPA (Weighted)

4.722

Class Rank

3 / 631

Dual Enrollment: Georgia State University & Georgia Tech

Relevant Coursework

AP CSP (Python) AP CSA (Java) CS 1331 – OOP Intro to AI Concepts AI Concepts (Pandas, NumPy, SQL) Data Structures & Algorithms Databases / SQL TensorFlow • Keras • scikit‑learn Jupyter • OpenCV Web: HTML • CSS • JS

Experience — Apex146 & AI/ML Club

Apex146 — Internship

Applied Python/ML to MotoGP & F1 data; built data pipelines and models.

Data pipelines with pandas/NumPy.
Telemetry analysis and prospect‑scoring prototypes.
Visual reports for stakeholders.

AI & ML Club — Co‑President

Lead a 70+ member club; running projects, hackathons, and workshops.

Hands‑on sessions in Python, NumPy, pandas, TensorFlow.
Mini‑hackathons and model challenges with peer reviews.
Mentored newcomers on project structure and demos.

Projects

RNN stock forecaster (TensorFlow) — tuned for low RMSE and strong trend capture.
Local LLM QA on 500‑page corpus (Ollama) — answered 150+ queries with citations.
CPI forecasting with LSTM — RMSE ≈ 0.037 and accurate short‑term trend prediction.
Heart disease risk ML study — 89% accuracy, 0.85 F1 after model comparison/tuning.

Heart disease prediction results — Heart disease prediction (ML)

Face detection output — Face detection (LLM/CV)

Certifications

IT Specialist - Artificial Intelligence

AI concepts and applications

IT Specialist - Data Analytics

Analyzing and visualizing data

IT Specialist - Python

Python programming proficiency

IT Specialist - Java

Object-oriented design and development

IT Specialist - Software Development

Core software development skills

AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals

Cloud concepts and Azure services

AI-900: Azure AI Fundamentals

AI concepts and Azure AI services

Ritesh Konakanchi

Co-Founder / Lead UX/UI Designer

Senior at Denmark High School

Passionate about education and technology, working to make learning accessible and engaging for everyone.

Experience

Software Development Intern — Maxeom

Built SQL queries and analytics dashboards for sales team.

Wrote 15+ SQL queries to clean and join 120k rows for analytics.
Built 3 dashboards for the sales team; indexing cut weekly report runtime by 15%.

Software & Business Development Intern — Punch Rewards

Developed front-end features for a restaurant rewards app.

Shipped front-end features for restaurant rewards app.
Supported outreach to onboard 5+ businesses; beta app reached 200+ users.

AI & ML Club — Vice President

Together with Adam, we lead a 70+ member club; running projects, hackathons, and workshops.

Organized AI/ML workshops and competitions; built club curriculum and demo projects.
Led teams and live demos; created slides/code resources for meetings.

Projects

Car Price Predictor — Random Forest and Linear Regression on 10,000 records; mean error $1,100, R² 0.87.
Tesla Stock Forecaster — RNNs in TensorFlow; 62% trend accuracy, 2.1% MAPE.
Image Classification Model — CNN in Keras/TensorFlow; 90% test accuracy across 10 categories.
Pokémon Battle Predictor — Naïve Bayes and decision trees; 88% validation accuracy.

Python Tutor — Coding for a Change

Taught Python programming and problem-solving skills to students.

Taught 15 students weekly online; led projects and coding lessons.
Built core Python and problem-solving skills through hands-on projects.

Certifications

IT Specialist - Python

Python programming proficiency

IT Specialist - Software Development

Core software development skills

IT Specialist - Data Analytics

Analyzing and visualizing data

AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals

Cloud concepts and Azure services

AI-900: Azure AI Fundamentals

AI concepts and Azure AI services

Contact Us:
Adam: LinkedIn: adam-issac • Email: adamissac08@gmail.com
Ritesh: LinkedIn: ritesh-konakanchi • Email: ritesh.konakanchi@gmail.com
Prahas: Email: prahas4u@gmail.com