Astra Engineering

Building the intelligence layer for old school industries, starting with jewel manufacturing.

Hi! We're Shloak and Pratham, best friends since primary school in Mumbai. Currently, we study Math, CS, and Economics at UCLA and Cornell.

Together we:

Secured $500,000+ in scholarships like Open Philanthropy, Atlas Fellowship, and 8VC Engineering Fellowship (dropped for Astra).
Founded Trevo in high school, built websites, SEO, and digital marketing for old school business—served 30+ clients, hired 10+ engineers, and featured in the Times of India.
Won $15,000+ at HackMIT and Stanford TreeHacks, competing among 2000+ students.
Were Founding Researchers and First Engineers at CoopHive and The Interaction Company of California, backed by Protocol Labs, Village Global, and angels from Sequoia, DeepMind, etc.
Published research at IEEE (age 16) and collaborated with researchers from MIT, IIT Bombay, Stanford, etc.
Won National Debate Championships and represented India internationally.
Built crypto based compute exchange algorithms, distributed GPU computing on iPhones, connected a Raspberry Pi to satellites, real-time computer vision on the Apple Vision Pro, complex agentic systems, and took graduate generative AI classes.

So far, we've signed design partnerships with global jewelers, are building a super talented, high agency team, and are launching our pilot program.