Dhatri Jayanth is a sophomore at UT Austin, double-majoring in Informatics and Design. She works at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), she's active in the university's design and product clubs, and she's Adobe Certified in both Photoshop and Illustrator.
Her way into AI tools started at a NextWork event.
The session with Jon
Our founding designer Jon ran a session showing how to use Paper and Claude Code, and Dhatri joined. It was her first taste of wiring AI tools together, and seeing Paper speed up weeks of manual effort was her aha moment with AI tools.
She has kept building since. The thing she's proudest of so far is Synchra, a wearable AR ring she made for a hackathon this year.
Her Build & Brew group
Dhatri is now a Build & Brew master, which means she leads one of our community groups where learners commit to building projects together. Her projects focus on AI-assisted data architecture, and she presents them using AR - which makes a lot of sense coming from someone who has already built an AR ring.
What she wants most from the group is a low-pressure way to get more people building, including people who have never thought of themselves as coders. It's open to everyone with no experience needed, so if that sounds like you, Dhatri's Build & Brew group is a good place to start.
Away from her laptop, Dhatri is a very good oil painter, she has a real talent for organizing chaos into order, and she spends a lot of her spare time reading and cooking. You can follow what she builds next on LinkedIn.