• Undergraduate Researcher at IIT Ropar (VLED Lab) — building a real-time classroom polling system used by a 13-member engineering team
• Open to SDE internships, Summer/Fall 2026
• 300+ DSA problems solved · CGPA 8.44/10

IIT Ropar, VLED Lab — Undergraduate Researcher, Software Engineering · May 2026 – Present

• Co-built Spandan v0.8.0, a real-time classroom polling system with an event-driven Socket.IO sync layer, role-based auth, and Whisper-based audio transcription for AI-driven question generation
• Debugged production concurrency issues under live classroom load

GirlScript Summer of Code — Open Source Contributor · Jun 2025 – Nov 2025

• Refactored React components to cut unnecessary re-renders; reviewed and merged 3 PRs across cross-timezone teams

Excellence Technology — Software Engineering Trainee · Jun 2025 – Jul 2025

• Shipped full-stack CRUD applications on the MERN stack from stakeholder requirements to delivery

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PTU Bazar — Multi-tenant distributed e-commerce platform (ongoing)

Architected a multi-tenant backend for 50+ vendors with isolated auth, cutting onboarding time 40% via automated setup. Achieves 99.9% availability through fault-tolerant infrastructure.

Sync Pad — Real-time collaborative distributed editor

WebSocket-based room-management system with sub-100ms cross-client sync, supporting 100+ simultaneous connections.

CodeBlog — Full-stack MERN blog platform

RESTful API with JWT auth; optimized MongoDB queries 30% faster while reliably serving 1,000+ concurrent sessions.

Distributed Rate Limiter — Token Bucket + Sliding Window · Node.js · Redis

Production-grade rate limiter supporting both strategies, handling concurrent request bursts with configurable per-route thresholds.

Real-Time Chat Platform — Socket.io · Node.js · MongoDB · React

Room-based messaging with typing indicators and persistent history, tuned for low-latency delivery under concurrent load.

P2P Video Streaming — WebRTC · Signaling server

Peer-to-peer video calling with ICE candidate handling and STUN/TURN fallback for unstable networks.

Column-Store Database Engine — Python · Dictionary encoding · RLE compression

Built from scratch, mirroring core concepts behind analytical databases like ClickHouse.

NanoGPT-style Language Model — PyTorch · Transformer architecture

GPT-style autoregressive model with multi-head self-attention, positional encoding, and LR-scheduled training.

Credit Card Fraud Detection — Python · scikit-learn · SMOTE

Fraud classifier on imbalanced data using SMOTE oversampling and ensembles, tuned for high recall on the minority class.

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• 🥇 Top 10 of 500+ teams — Quantum 3.0 Hackathon
• 🎯 300+ DSA problems on LeetCode & GeeksforGeeks — top 10% of batch
• 🎓 25% merit scholarship recipient

Open to SDE internships · Summer/Fall 2026 · amankumar.cs27@gmail.com