Achievements
Hackathons
Runner-Up - upGrad CodeEd AI Hackathon Grand Finale (Mumbai)
October 2025
- Secured Runner-Up position nationwide in the grand finale of the CodeEd AI Hackathon.
- Pitched the product vision and business model for ElevateEd AI (a study kit compiler that targets student knowledge gaps) to a panel of industry leaders.
- Technical Details: Developed FastAPI-based in-memory parsing, automated recursive text summarization pipelines, and Firestore profile serialization. See ElevateEd AI Project Details.
Second Prize - SocioHack Hackathon (IIT Gandhinagar)
February 2025
- Secured Second Prize (Runner-up) in the social problem-solving hackathon hosted by the Technical Council of IIT Gandhinagar in collaboration with Blithchron.
- Co-created 3D-Map: Real-Time Event Navigation System, an interactive, collaborative 3D spatial web app using React, MapTiler SDK, and Firebase.
- Technical Details: Implemented dynamic Leaflet GeoJSON layer mapping and client-side overlapping marker clustering algorithms. See 3D Campus Map Project Details.
Open Source Contributions
Contributor - FOSS Overflow
February 2025 - March 2025
- Successfully completed a 4-week open-source program organized by the Metis coding club, IIT Gandhinagar.
- Contributed to Leaderboard-Pro, a multi-platform stats aggregator dashboard tracking competitive programming profiles (Codeforces, LeetCode, CodeChef) and GitHub contributions.
- Technical Details: Engineered backend asynchronous scraping tasks using Celery and Redis to prevent HTTP request blocking. See Leaderboard-Pro Project Details.
Contributor - Hacktoberfest 2024
October 2024
- Successfully completed the global open-source challenge.
- Submitted and merged 6 pull requests (exceeding the baseline requirement of 4) in public JavaScript and frontend web repositories.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Git, GitHub workflows, code reviews, and remote team collaborations.