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Shaswat Raj

Ranchi, India · sh20raj@gmail.com · playlikeboy.github.io · github.com/playlikeboy · linkedin.com/in/sh20raj

Education

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra— B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Expected May 2028

Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Database Management Systems, Computer Networks, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Engineering.

Skills

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, Python, Go, SQL, Bash

Backend: Node.js, Express, Hono, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST, WebSockets

Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Cloudflare Workers, Linux

Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, WebAssembly

AI: OpenAI / Claude / Gemini APIs, RAG, vector search, Model Context Protocol

Experience

Bitotsav '26 — BIT Mesra annual festival — Tech Lead

2025 – 2026

  • Led and built the tech platform for ~5,000 participants: website, registration, team workflows, points system, admin panel and internal tools.
  • Built signed-QR entry verification with a scanner that keeps working in no-network zones; Redis in front of PostgreSQL for hot paths.
  • Ran live operations through the festival and presented the design to college leadership.

Open source — Contributor and maintainer

2022 – Present

  • google-gemini/gemini-cli #20778: fixed turn cancellation not reaching chat-compression requests by threading AbortSignal through the execution layers.
  • Merged fixes in preactjs/preact (#5331, input type definitions) and codex-team/editor.js (#3040, inline toolbar).
  • 13 further pull requests in review, including jaegertracing/jaeger, kmesh-net/kmesh (Go), meta/lexical and radix-ui/primitives.

Projects

SopKit — Next.js, TypeScript, WebAssembly

sopkit.github.io
  • 605+ privacy-first browser tools that process files client-side, with no uploads and no server compute.
  • 4.3M+ requests and 213K+ visits in 30 days, built and operated solo.

CampusLoop — Next.js, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Workers, WebSockets

campusloop.space
  • Verified student network for 1,350+ Indian colleges, gated by institutional email; feeds, marketplace, polls and time capsules.

Debo — Next.js, TypeScript, vector search, OpenAI

debo.life
  • Personal AI memory: ingests notes, links and audio, embeds them, and retrieves context through a chat interface. Built solo.

IndexFast and MCP Pure — TypeScript, Hono, Cloudflare Workers, MCP

indexfast.co
  • MCP servers on the edge; IndexFast submits URLs to Google, Bing and IndexNow from inside an IDE.

Kishan AI — Python, computer vision, Telegram Bot API

  • Assistant for farmers: crop-disease diagnosis from photos, weather and mandi prices. Top 500 nationally, AICTE Productization Fellowship 2025.

Honors

  • AICTE Productization Fellowship 2025 — shortlisted in the national Top 500 (Kishan AI).
  • Apify hackathon — prize winner for a production web-scraping actor.
  • Technical writing on Dev.to, 45K+ followers.