Computer Engineering Student & Full-Stack Builder

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I build systems where correctness matters — from developer tooling and financial infrastructure to ML research platforms.

Mumbai, India
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Current focus

Correctness over cleverness.

Systems engineering, data-driven research, competitive programming, and full-stack development.

(01) — ABOUT

Building for correctness.

Third-year Computer Engineering student at K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering with experience building full-stack applications, backend systems, developer tooling, and ML infrastructure.

Currently serving as Treasurer for ACM-KJSCE while building systems across data-driven research, financial infrastructure, agentic AI, and developer productivity.

I am focused on strengthening DSA and systems engineering while preparing for software and systems engineering roles.

Interests

  • Software Engineering
  • Competitive Programming
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Market Microstructure
  • Systems Programming
  • Machine Learning
  • Agentic AI
  • Open Source
  • Full-Stack Development
  • Chess

(02) — LIVE STATS

Competitive & coding stats.

(03) — EXPERIENCE

Where I've shipped.

Aug 2026 — Present

Treasurer (Core Member)

ACM-KJSSE Student Chapter

Mumbai, MH

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  • Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning for chapter events, allocating sponsor and registration revenue against per-event spending limits before approval.
  • Introduced a pre-approval workflow and regular budget-vs-actual variance reviews with the core council, improving cost control, expense tracking and fiscal accountability.
  • Strengthened financial reporting and transparency by benchmarking costs against prior events and negotiating vendor and sponsor terms to improve cost efficiency.

Jun 2026 — Jul 2026

Software Development Intern

Rays TechServ

Mumbai, MH

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  • Developed and maintained full-stack web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.
  • Optimized database queries and schema designs to enhance data retrieval speeds and reduce server response times.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement responsive user interface components and ensure seamless frontend-backend integration.

Aug 2025 — May 2026

Operations Team Member

ACM-KJSSE Student Chapter

Mumbai, MH

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  • Ran daily LeetCode and Codeforces discussions for an 800+ member community.
  • Presented a competitive programming introduction to 150+ freshers.
  • Secured sponsor partnerships for flagship chapter events.

(04) — PROJECTS

Key software & systems built.

Sep 2026

Inside the build

Versioned datasets and purge/embargo validation tests enforce point-in-time correctness and prevent look-ahead bias and label leakage

Tech stack

RustPyTorchONNX

Leakage-safe LSTM return prediction and backtesting platform

Time-Series Research Platform

Leakage-safe LSTM return prediction and backtesting platform

A Rust-based data-driven research and backtesting platform with versioned data ingestion, feature storage, signal generation, portfolio construction, risk and execution simulation, and PyTorch-based LSTM forecasting.

RustPyTorchONNX
Project details
  • Versioned datasets and purge/embargo validation tests enforce point-in-time correctness and prevent look-ahead bias and label leakage
  • Exports the LSTM to ONNX with parity tests confirming Rust inference matches PyTorch
  • Model-agnostic backtester with Monte Carlo and regime analysis, backed by 70+ Rust and 11 Python tests
Live Demo ↗
Sep 2026

Inside the build

Rust ledger core posts balanced entries under SERIALIZABLE PostgreSQL isolation behind a FastAPI gateway

Tech stack

RustC++FastAPIPostgreSQLRedisKafkapgvector

Double-entry core-banking ledger

Finacle

Double-entry core-banking ledger

A backend financial infrastructure system built around a double-entry ledger, transactional guarantees, idempotent retries, Kafka-based event delivery, and C++ settlement reconciliation.

RustC++FastAPIPostgreSQLRedisKafkapgvector
Project details
  • Rust ledger core posts balanced entries under SERIALIZABLE PostgreSQL isolation behind a FastAPI gateway
  • Redis-backed mandatory idempotency keys and transactional outbox provide safe retries and replay-tolerant Kafka consumers
  • OpenMP-parallelized C++ reconciliation engine matches settlement batches against the ledger and surfaces exceptions
  • Added a pgvector RAG compliance copilot and 4-job GitHub Actions CI pipeline
Aug 2026

Inside the build

Predictive ML and sensor-QC lead on a team of 6

Tech stack

PythonFastAPIPostGISQdrantPyTorchBM25

Agentic AI marine intelligence platform

VARUNA

Agentic AI marine intelligence platform

A Smart India Hackathon platform combining marine forecasting, sensor quality control, verified data retrieval, and multi-agent planning for ocean intelligence.

PythonFastAPIPostGISQdrantPyTorchBM25
Project details
  • Predictive ML and sensor-QC lead on a team of 6
  • Developing a Temporal Convolutional Network for marine heatwave forecasting and a 1D-CNN autoencoder for ARGO sensor quality control
  • Fuses INCOIS ARGO data from 3,800+ floats with CMLRE biodiversity records
  • Multi-agent planner with hybrid BM25 and vector retrieval, with reported numbers traced to verified SQL rows
Sep 2026

Inside the build

Vision tooling and security-monitoring lead on an air-gapped workbench for confidential refinery work

Tech stack

PythonFastAPIReact

Air-gapped AI workbench for confidential refinery operations

Sovereign On-Premise Agentic AI Workbench

Air-gapped AI workbench for confidential refinery operations

An air-gapped agentic AI workbench for confidential refinery workflows, using open-weight models locally with no outbound network calls.

PythonFastAPIReact
Project details
  • Vision tooling and security-monitoring lead on an air-gapped workbench for confidential refinery work
  • Owned defect detection end to end using OCR-box-based detection with offline-runnable tests
  • Built an overlay viewer that surfaces detections directly in agent traces
  • Built a live network-isolation monitor reporting only the application's own process-tree connections
Mar 2026

Inside the build

TOON encoding with 50% token reduction and relevance-aware garbage collection to reduce context pollution

Tech stack

TypeScriptReact (Ink)Gemini APINode.js

CLI-based AI coding assistant

Zex

CLI-based AI coding assistant

A terminal-native AI coding assistant focused on reducing context pollution through intelligent context pruning, token-efficient encoding, API key rotation, and real-time vulnerability scanning.

TypeScriptReact (Ink)Gemini APINode.js
Project details
  • TOON encoding with 50% token reduction and relevance-aware garbage collection to reduce context pollution
  • Reactive terminal UI with slash commands including /security, /undo, /plan and /keys
  • Automated project audit system for technology-stack detection
Code ↗
Dec 2025

Inside the build

Spider-plot scoring for visualizing multiple code-quality dimensions

Tech stack

TypeScriptReactGemini APIJWT

Code quality evaluator for beginner programmers

CQI: Code Quality Index

Code quality evaluator for beginner programmers

A full-stack platform using the Gemini API to evaluate beginner code against custom quality metrics, with competitive programming tracking and interactive feedback.

TypeScriptReactGemini APIJWT
Project details
  • Spider-plot scoring for visualizing multiple code-quality dimensions
  • Live leaderboard and competitive programming contest tracking
  • Gemini-powered doubt resolution with real-time feedback loops
  • Automated test-case validation for beginner programming submissions
Code ↗Live Demo ↗
Sep 2025

Inside the build

Personalized dashboards for students, teachers and administrators

Tech stack

JavaScriptBootstrapJWT

Role-based education management platform

Smart Education Management System

Role-based education management platform

A role-based education web application with JWT authentication, personalized dashboards, AI-powered timetable scheduling, and real-time timetable notifications.

JavaScriptBootstrapJWT
Project details
  • Personalized dashboards for students, teachers and administrators
  • AI-powered timetable scheduling for class allocation, cancellations, classroom capacity and conflict resolution
  • Real-time notifications for lecture and timetable changes
  • Responsive Bootstrap interface for dashboards, timetables and approval workflows
Code ↗Live Demo ↗
Dec 2024

Inside the build

Real-time status updates with configurable thresholds

Tech stack

JavaScriptReact

Real-time stock alert dashboard

Stock Notifier

Real-time stock alert dashboard

A frontend dashboard for tracking stop-loss and take-profit thresholds across multiple stocks with configurable real-time alerts.

JavaScriptReact
Project details
  • Real-time status updates with configurable thresholds
  • Multi-stock tracking in a single view
  • Optimized state management for notification delivery
Code ↗

(05) — SKILLS

Stack & grind.

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BacktestingPortfolio ConstructionTime-Series ForecastingPythonRustCJavaScriptRPyTorchPandasMatplotlibApache ArrowReactNode.jsKafkaGitHub ActionsPyCharmEclipseCodeforcesLeetCodeBacktestingPortfolio ConstructionTime-Series ForecastingPythonRustCJavaScriptRPyTorchPandasMatplotlibApache ArrowReactNode.jsKafkaGitHub ActionsPyCharmEclipseCodeforcesLeetCode
Monte Carlo SimulationRisk ModelingBudgetingC++JavaSQL (PostgreSQL)TypeScriptHTML/CSSONNXNumPySeabornFastAPINext.jsRedisGitVS CodeIntelliJBunCodeChefMonte Carlo SimulationRisk ModelingBudgetingC++JavaSQL (PostgreSQL)TypeScriptHTML/CSSONNXNumPySeabornFastAPINext.jsRedisGitVS CodeIntelliJBunCodeChef

Modeling & Analysis

  • Backtesting
  • Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Portfolio Construction
  • Risk Modeling
  • Time-Series Forecasting
  • Budgeting

Languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Java
  • C
  • SQL (PostgreSQL)
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • R
  • HTML/CSS

Data & ML

  • PyTorch
  • ONNX
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • Apache Arrow

Frameworks & Tools

  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • VS Code
  • PyCharm
  • IntelliJ
  • Eclipse
  • Bun

Competitive Programming

  • Codeforces
  • CodeChef
  • LeetCode

(06) — CREDENTIALS

Certified & educated.

Finatics

Investment Banking Analyst

Aug 2025

DeepLearning.AI

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

Jan 2026

Simplilearn

Introduction to Front End Development

Jul 2025

Techfest, IIT Bombay

2-Day Blockchain Workshop

2025

Education

Aug 2024 — May 2028

B.Tech, Computer Engineering

K.J. Somaiya School of Engineering

Mumbai, MH

CGPA: 8.5

Jun 2022 — May 2024

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

Pace Junior Science College

Mumbai, MH

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(08) — CONTACT

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Direct Inquiries & Profiles

Open to software engineering roles, systems engineering opportunities, and GSoC / open-source collaborations.

Email:sahil.shh88@gmail.com

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