I’m Saksham Sandhu — Co-Founder of GoodSpace.ai, an AI recruiter that has run 25,000+ interviews across 55+ languages. Before that: HackDTU, IOSD, PlacementSaga, and a handful of side-quests with the Delhi & Arunachal Pradesh Police.
If every repetitive task could be handled by AI agents, humans can focus on creativity and solving higher-order problems.”
An AI recruiter that sources, shortlists, and interviews candidates autonomously — often within the hour. Multilingual, bias-checked, and very tired of resumes.
A DSA prep platform for college kids the year before their placements. Curated mock tests, video walkthroughs, and the slow realisation that the real bug wasn’t in the candidates — it was in the hiring funnel itself.
Started as a dorm-room search for one PHP developer. Became a pan-India network of student builders across 22 engineering colleges. Workshops, projects, friendships, and a lot of late-night Slack threads.
48 hours, hundreds of caffeinated builders, and the kind of operational chaos that teaches you more about leadership than any internship will.
Worked with Dy. CP Prashant Priya Gautam and the Arunachal Pradesh Police to deploy an Autonomous Surveillance Drone, and ship Anubhuti — a QR-driven public feedback system. My first real lesson in technology meeting governance.
It started, as these things often do, with a textbook. Sumita Arora’s Class 12 Computer Science book lit something I couldn’t put back. A few lines of code, and the computer did what I wanted.
Around the same time I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. The combination was a little dangerous: I didn’t just want to write code, I wanted to build things that could change lives. Delhi Technological University admitted me a few months later and the next four years moved very fast.
My first Android app made it brutally clear that I needed a co-conspirator on the backend. Talent was everywhere on campus — it just wasn’t organised. So I started Software Developers DTU. It outgrew the campus into IOSD across 22 engineering colleges, which outgrew itself into HackDTU, now North India’s largest hackathon.
Somewhere in there, IOSD started doing public-service work — autonomous surveillance drones for the Delhi Police, a QR-driven feedback system called Anubhuti for the Arunachal Pradesh Police. Engineering, but with stakes outside a hackathon room.
PlacementSaga was the in-between thing. A DSA prep platform that helped a lot of students prep for placements — and gave me a front-row seat to where hiring actually broke. The lesson landed cleanly: the real inefficiency wasn’t in how candidates studied, it was in how companies hired them. PlacementSaga’s job, it turned out, was to point me at the next problem.
I co-founded GoodSpace.ai with Vinay Pasricha — three decades of hiring chops to my three of building. The pitch is simple: traditional recruitment is weeks of repetitive screening and scheduling loops. Ours is an AI recruiter that conducts near-human conversations, scores them honestly, and hands back a refined shortlist — often within the hour.
Microsoft put us on their AI First Movers wall as the first mover for AI hiring in South Asia. Twenty-five thousand interviews and a million job seekers in, it still feels like day one.
Voice-first interviews in regional Indian languages. Honest scoring that survives a panel review.
Recruiting is one of a hundred workflows that should feel like talking to a thoughtful colleague.
The next decade of AGI groundwork won’t be written exclusively in San Francisco. If founder capital keeps flowing into Indian deep-tech, we get a turn too.
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