K. Shivaramakrishnan.

Entrepreneur Researcher Developer Hardware Builder Badminton & Basketball Travel & Drives

I build things — alone, from scratch. Companies in biotechnology, software that solves real problems, open hardware that anyone can use. Based in Chennai. Everything connects back to the life sciences.

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Also: I collect tea.

Now

"Building webapps that are actually useful to people in ways that matter."

Chennai — June 2026

What I Do

Entrepreneurship
Solo. Building and running companies in biotechnology from the ground up.
Life Sciences Research
Tissue culture, plant biotechnology, propagation systems. Applied science in production environments.
Software Development
Full-stack web applications. Tools people actually use. Clean, purposeful, built to last.
Open Hardware
BCI, EEG and wearable hardware — designed, built, and open-sourced. Available on GitHub.
Product Thinking
From idea to shipped — strategy, design, execution, iteration. Solo, end to end.
Sport & Motion
Badminton and basketball. Long drives. Travelling to understand places.

Companies — all biotechnology

Phyto Labs
Professional tissue culture & biotechnology — carnivorous plants, rare tropicals, commercial propagation at scale.
phytolabs.in
TC Plants
Tissue culture plant supply — wholesale and retail distribution across India.
tcplants.in
Carnivorous Plants India
The largest carnivorous plant collection and community in India.
carnivorousplants.in
New Labs
Next research initiative — forming.
coming

Things I Built

Q-onco Oncology research assistant — built for a cancer researcher in Heidelberg. Live BCI / EEG Hardware Open-source brain-computer interface and wearable hardware. Fully available on GitHub. Open Source
OnlyFarm Hyperlocal agricultural marketplace for Tamil Nadu farmers. In Progress
Private tools Internal systems, personal infrastructure, experiments.  

Writing

Notes, essays, and thoughts on building — companies, software, and everything in between. Sporadic and honest.

First piece coming. —

Find Me

LinkedIn kshivaramakrishnan GitHub shiva16 Instagram variable_constants Email shiva.adam@gmail.com