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| 1 | +Date: 25-04-2026 |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +Duration: 1 hr 40 mins |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +==== Topics Discussed |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +* Alpesh walked through his hiring startup work under Cyber Unbound. |
| 8 | + ** The team avoids LinkedIn APIs and scraping (policy and legal risk for a production company) and instead they enrich roles using third-party people-data providers combined with AI for JD parsing and matching. |
| 9 | + ** He described a workflow similar to chat for sourcing: paste a job description, get back matched profiles from many active sources, with a long-term store (internally called “Pensive,” a Harry Potter reference) so profiles are not refetched repeatedly. |
| 10 | + ** Next steps he is tackling include automating first-line outreach and screening interviews (security fundamentals, then GitHub-led project and code-level questions), with later rounds staying with the hiring company; voice UX that feels human was discussed, including hosted realtime stacks such as LiveKit for self-hosted or tuned experiences, and tooling in the ElevenLabs class for natural speech. |
| 11 | + ** He mentioned active fundraising conversations (including inbound from investors after a CEO post gained traction) and a planned re-launch of the Cyber Unbound product with refreshed positioning around mid-May, alongside ongoing automation of operations (sourcing largely done, interviews largely automated, onboarding/content still the heavier manual piece). |
| 12 | +* Lebyy shared context from a recent Princeton-adjacent hackathon where he met someone from the YC ecosystem interested in LinkedIn-marketing-style automation; he had started experimenting with an agent-oriented stack but paused for exams. |
| 13 | +* Krishna Gadia and Alpesh discussed timelines and trade-offs for graduate study abroad—GRE vs TOEFL/IELTS emphasis, sealed transcripts, diploma lateral-entry implications for transcript years, typical US application windows (e.g. aiming for fall 2027), spring-admit alternatives, and how entrepreneurial track record weighs more for MBA paths than for a CS-focused MS. |
| 14 | +* Krishna and Lebyy compared notes on US university life and travel—Lebyy at Rutgers, Krishna’s recent travel in the northeastern US, and Lebyy’s trip to Penn State Harrisburg for a hackathon (ACM-style event with travel support), including overlap on organisers such as Dr Jeremy Bloom and how satellite campuses feel versus larger hubs. |
| 15 | +* Alpesh demoed a side project: a Monkeytype-style trainer focused on cybersecurity commands and short explanations, aimed at muscle memory for shell and tooling workflows. |
| 16 | +* Siddhesh Varhadi joined briefly and mentioned a hectic stretch around a recent college event. |
| 17 | +* The group reflected on how OTC CatchUp summaries are produced today—starting from meeting notes and doing a smaller refinement pass—contrasted with older workflows where dedicated note-takers and writers spent much longer per session. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +==== Additional resources and links |
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| 21 | +* link:https://livekit.io[LiveKit^] |
| 22 | +* link:https://elevenlabs.io[ElevenLabs^] |
| 23 | +* link:https://www.rutgers.edu[Rutgers University^] |
| 24 | +* link:https://harrisburg.psu.edu[Penn State Harrisburg^] |
| 25 | +* link:https://monkeytype.com[Monkeytype^] |
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