Riza Mohamed
@rizawastaken
Founder, developer, and high school student
Riza Mohamed is a 16-year-old founder, developer, and 8x hackathon winner. He built a computer vision coin-sorting pipeline for the Kerala government at age 14 and is currently working on flysoar.ai. He has won numerous hackathons, been selected for Founders Inc. Canopy S26, and received a ministerial commendation from the Kerala government.
Expertise
Interests
Projects
Engineer (iOS app) · Building with Henry Langmack and Alex Slater
Coin-sorting pipeline for Kerala government ↗
Developer · Computer vision pipeline, built at age 14
Founder · 500+ builder community; members later won IOI and IOAI medals
Experience
OpenAI Codex Hackathon · Participant
Placed 3rd out of 4,500+ participants
Government of Kerala · Developer
Age 14 · Built computer vision coin-sorting pipeline; received ministerial commendation
Top100Coders (μLearn / KSUM) · Fellow
Selected from 5,000+ applicants, finished in top 15; received award from CM of Kerala
Founders Inc. Canopy S26 · Selected Participant
2026 · Selected for the program
YC Startup School Paris · Attendee
June 2026 · Selected to attend
International Olympiad in AI (INAIO) · Qualifier
Qualified for stage 2
CBSE National Science Exhibition 2024 · 1st Place Regional
2024 · Computational thinking category; represented Kerala nationally
Where you might run into them
Hangouts filled during research.