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Software Engineering Intern
Software Engineer, Store Integrations
Software Engineering Intern
Software Engineering Intern
I study computer science at Shiv Nadar University Chennai, currently on an 8.03 CGPA. I like problems where the answer isn't in the documentation, which is most of them.
Breaking things
Mostly reverse engineering and exploit development. I run Edita, the cybersecurity vertical of my college Coding Club, which mostly means teaching people that the bug is rarely in the code they're reading. It's in the assumption nobody wrote down. I won Edita CTF in my first year, then built the platform it runs on in my second.
Building things
Right now: a white-label gym platform for Indian gyms. Multi-tenant on subdomains, isolated with Postgres row-level security, with a theme engine that derives an accessible palette from one brand colour. I'm building it solo, web and React Native. Alongside that I'm rebuilding Hoku as a monorepo where the web app and API share their contracts, so they can't drift.
Where I've worked
Four internships, all on production systems with real users on them.
Benchmarked a proposed analytics warehouse at 150 to 400ms a query against roughly 10ms on plain Postgres, argued against the migration, and shipped dashboards that aggregate in the browser instead. The product detail page I built for their NexDesk launch retained better than any other page in the store.
Owned the Shopify and WooCommerce ingestion layer, and built the scheduled reconciliation sweeps that detect and repair order drift when webhooks silently drop.
Led the MongoDB to PostgreSQL migration that ended silent data drift, moved embedding and image generation onto worker queues, and built a GenAI router across Gemini, Vertex and OpenAI so a provider outage degrades the app instead of downing it.
Built the academy's entire Flutter app and shipped it to both app stores, closing a payment-webhook signature bypass on the way.
I don't have a favourite stack. I have a favourite part of the problem.
The hockey is district level. The photographs are at @licht.tik, the films are on YouTube, and the writing goes to DeepEnd. The novel stays on my laptop until it earns its way off it.
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Python
Node.js
Express
MongoDBTypeScriptReactNext.jsPythonNode.jsExpressMongoDB
Flutter
Docker
PostgreSQL
Kotlin
Azure
Firebase
RedisFlutterDockerPostgreSQLKotlinAzureFirebaseRedis
Git
Figma
Tailwind CSS
JavaScript
FastAPI
PrismaGitFigmaTailwind CSSJavaScriptFastAPIPrisma1
Codevincii CTFInternational
2
Pragyaan CTFNational
3
Edita CTFShiv Nadar University
4
Shaastra CTFIIT Madras
5
Hack The BoxCyber Apocalypse 2025
6
Smart India HackathonGovernment of India
7
SNUC HacksShiv Nadar University
8
HP CodeWarsAll India
9
ICPCInternational Collegiate Programming Contest
Let's Build Something
Have a project in mind, want to collaborate, or just want to say hi? Drop me a message and I'll get back to you.
What kind of work are you open to?
Internships first. I'm free from May to August 2027 and I graduate in 2028. I don't have a fixed target title. Backend, security, full stack, infrastructure, whatever actually uses the work. I'll take freelance builds and open source too if the problem is interesting.
You're still in college. Can you handle real projects?
Fair question. I interned on Hey Hoku's production backend while it served 3,000+ users, built NetworkGeek's Flutter app and shipped it to both app stores, owned the store-integration layer at SmartDelivered, and worked on the storefront at Miniture. My attendance app runs on 500+ students at my own university, which means I hear about it immediately when it breaks. None of that is coursework.
How serious is your cybersecurity background?
Serious enough to keep score. 6th of 6,000+ teams at Codevincii, 2nd of 4,000+ at Pragyaan, winner of Edita, top 30 of 40,000+ at Shaastra, and top 750 worldwide in Hack The Box's Cyber Apocalypse. Reverse engineering and exploit development mostly. I run Edita, my college's cybersecurity vertical, and I built the CTF platform it runs on.
What's your go-to tech stack?
TypeScript and Next.js for web, Flutter or React Native for mobile, Python when it's data or scripting, Postgres underneath most of it. But I'd rather pick per problem than defend a stack. The gym platform is on tRPC and Drizzle because it needed end-to-end type safety across web and mobile; that reasoning wouldn't survive a different project.
What's the best way to work with you?
Email me, or use the form below. I read everything and reply to anything that isn't a template. If you're stuck on something genuinely difficult, lead with that. It's the fastest way to get my attention.