Hey, I'm Sehan.

17-year-old me thought I'd end up at an Ivy League school with the perfect 45/45 IB score, then walk into a hedge fund in New York by 22.

none of that happened, and somehow that's the best thing.

I ended up at UBC Sauder instead, studying Finance + Data Science. Passed CFA Level I at 19. I recently completed 8 months of auditing financial institutions at KPMG.

But what I really do is build.

quick aside, this isn't a resume site. my resume is for HR. recruiter? hi 👋 I promise I have a normal boring resume too. it's even in Times New Roman. click here.

Right now I'm obsessed with one idea:

the right 20 cold emails can change your life. most people just never send them.

So I'm building 20 Conversations a Day, an AI tool that writes hyper-personalized cold emails using templates from outreach to Elon, Bezos, and YC founders, combined with real-time context from each person's recent podcasts, articles, and posts.

It's the tool I wish I had when I was 17, sending awful emails that nobody replied to.

I'm also building two others that go with it:

YourFirstHour → an AI morning brief

Pulls from your email, calendar, Slack, and Canvas so you know what matters before your day even starts. Built it because I missed too many deadlines my first year at Sauder.

LinkedInnit → posts that sound like you

Turns raw thoughts and wins into LinkedIn posts that actually sound like you. Not ChatGPT. Built it because I had a lot to say and zero time to write it.

All three are part of the same mission: help students stay organized, build careers, and ship things.

I document the whole journey on @sehanbuilds, the wins, the L's, the 3am bug fixes, all of it.

things i've done before this

→ Co-founded Cents Inc. at 19. Raised pre-seed, filed patents in Canada, advised a handful of SMBs on going AI-native before it was cool.
→ Spread credit on $100M+ corporate portfolios at ICICI Bank.
→ Ran deal flow for an early-stage fund in Toronto at Roots Funding.
→ Swam nationally (breaststroke + backstroke). Currently retired from peak athletic performance.
→ Visited 17 countries across 4 continents. Working on the next 17.

things i'm into

→ Cold emails (obviously)
→ Sports & film journalism. used to think I'd be a journalist before I thought I'd be in finance
→ Scuba diving
→ Re-watching The Social Network, Whiplash, and The Pursuit of Happyness on loop
→ Pretending I'll go back to swimming this year

Vancouver-based. Always building. Send me a cold email if you want, I read all of them, and I reply to the good ones. If you're a recruiter or someone famous that's basically a cold email in reverse (dream scenario if you ask me).

send me a cold email →