Things I've built because I was curious, or because it sounded fun.
Baremetal Self-Hosted Kubernetes Cluster
I started this in late 2023 with a single Raspberry Pi because I wanted to learn how bare metal Kubernetes actually works. Two years later, I have two Intel Xeon workstations with 18TB of storage. I run my audiobooks, music, photo archive, file sync, and a bunch of personal tools on it. I've nuked and rebuilt this cluster more times than I can count.
From 12 Minutes to 25 Seconds
Started with a naive implementation that took 12 minutes, then went through 8 iterations of profiling and optimizing until it ran in 25 seconds. Learned a lot about how to squeeze performance out of the BEAM. Presented this at Code BEAM Europe 2024 in Berlin.
Semantic Image Search with Elixir ML
I was curious about Elixir's ML ecosystem. Built this to explore how CLIP (OpenAI's vision model) could power semantic image search, where you type something like 'sunset over the ocean' and it finds matching photos. Presented this at Code BEAM Europe 2023 in Berlin.
Virtual Yearbook & Scrapbook Platform
When COVID hit during my second year of college, everyone was sent home overnight. Our college had a tradition where every year, juniors would put together yearbooks and scrapbooks for the graduating seniors. With everyone locked down, that just wasn't happening anymore.
So a few friends and I, over a cup of tea, decided to do something about it. We shipped an MVP for our college's passing batch, and without any real marketing, it took off. People wanted this.
With a lot of time on our hands, I decided to go all in for the next year. I reached out to graduated seniors for help with design, branding, and outreach. A friend who was learning Android development jumped in to build a native app. After months of work, we launched again, this time expanding beyond our college to BITS Goa and others.
BITS Goa loved it so much that their email server banned us because people were signing up faster than we could send OTP emails. I remember staying up till 6am getting OAuth to work. I handled social media, customer support, design, alumni outreach, and the engineering. 2,000+ graduates across 5 colleges, 18,000+ memories shared.
It was magical.
Platform for conducting remote exams
ExamSecure is a platform for conducting cheating-free remote examinations with an automated virtual proctoring system.
My Website
I bought this domain in 2017 when I was in 12th class. Started with plain HTML and CSS. A year later, WordPress with every plugin known to man. A year after that, rewrote it in GatsbyJS. The rewriting never really stopped.
Web Scraping, Flask API, React Frontend
I found out a vulnerability in my college's ERP system. At the same time, students had to go through an arduous process to get results of previous semesters. I used ScraPy to exploit that vulnerability and scrape the results data. After that, I built an API for that data using Flask and a webapp using ReactJS, where any student can get their results easily.
REST API for a ToDo App
I did an internship at Credit Suisse, built this before the internship to get some hands on with Java and Spring Boot.
Basic Social Network
I had RDBMS as a subject in the second year of college, built this to play around with Flask and Postgres, deployed it on Heroku. Learnings from this helped quite a bit when I was building GradGoggles.
Identifies Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation mistakes
I did an internship at ReachIvy, an education consultancy firm. Built this along with their WordPress site as part of the internship. This is a tool to analyse your essay and run a spellcheck, grammar and punctuation check.
In 2019, as a college student, I'd reach out to local businesses that needed a web presence and build websites for them. These were my first taste of shipping real work for real people.
'Gatha - A Tale of Events' is an event management and wedding planning company in Pune. The aim of the website was to showcase their work, the services they offer and also make it easy for people to contact them.
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Wingrow Agritech connects farmers to consumers by delivering fresh, organic farm produce directly to your doorstep.
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The Ripple Chapter is an online competition platform that organises competitions in the fields of architecture, engineering, and design.
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TEDxVITPune is an independently organised TED event with the mission to learn, share and discuss ideas that matter.
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VITPuneMUN is a student simulation of the United Nations. Students take on the role of delegates of various countries.
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VishwaConclave is a student-centric conference organized by the students of VIT, Pune focused on current affairs.
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Vishwakarandak is the three-day long, annual, interdepartmental techno-cultural fest organized by the students of VIT, Pune.
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Melange is the annual intercollegiate fest organized by VIT, Pune with over 200 events across technical, cultural, and sports categories.
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The official website for the Events Planning & Execution Committee at VIT, Pune.
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