Laksh Agarwal

I’m Laksh, 25 years old and currently in Vancouver, BC. I like building things that make annoying systems a little less annoying. Sometimes that means working on Ednius to help professors grade faster. Other times, it’s just wondering why microwaves need so many buttons. Seriously, does anyone use more than three?

The Short Resume

• Education: SFU grad in Computing Science and Entrepreneurship.
• Experience: Co-founder of Ednius. It grades student work in minutes, so professors don’t spend their weekends on it. Research Assistant at SFU, where I learned to find clarity in messy data. Also worked as a Software Developer and tried my hand at a few other things.
• Skills: Building things end to end, debugging what breaks, and asking way too many “why” questions.

What I’m Exploring

• Beyond grading: Ednius started with grading, but the bigger question is how to make feedback faster, better, and more useful for students.
• Research papers: Working on a few interesting, cross-domain research papers. More details coming soon.

Highlights

• Building Ednius: Trusted to grade 75,000+ student answers so far, with 96% accuracy.
• E-commerce: After high school, turned a small bedroom operation into a $100k+ business by Year 2.
• Learned from failures: A bunch of things I tried flopped. Those taught me the most.

Unexpected Skills I’ve Picked Up

• Debugging code while having full conversations about completely unrelated topics.
• Turning leftovers into surprisingly decent meals (it’s mostly spices).
• Guessing the exact moment my laptop is about to crash.
• Packing for a multi-month international trip in under 20 minutes.

Lessons from the Trenches

• People don’t care how clever the system is. They care whether it helps.
• The smartest solution is often the simplest, but achieving simplicity is anything but simple.
• The right answer is almost always: “It depends”. Context matters.
• Sleep is very important. Never compromise on sleep, unless future you will be glad you did.

What’s Next

Scaling Ednius to reach more students and professors while continuing to learn what the product needs to become next.

Get in Touch

If any of this resonates, or if you’re curious about what I’m building, reach out at [email protected] or connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter/X.