Things I built and kept fixing.
Each of these started as a problem I couldn't leave alone. Hover a row to see it; click to open the screenshots.
- 001Live
ai-eval-lab
AI-Proctored Skill Assessment Platform
An AI-proctored exam platform for professional engineering tools (EDA, CAD) like KiCad that streams real desktop applications to the browser via a VNC pipeline. Features dynamic Docker container provisioning, a real-time telemetry pipeline that polls KiCad board state every 3s, and a three-phase AI proctor using Gemini for adaptive questioning and rubric-based grading, with ElevenLabs TTS/STT for voice interaction.
Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismaRedisDockerKiCadGeminiElevenLabsnoVNC - 002Self-Hostable
taimumashin
Personal Cold Storage Archive
A BYOA (Bring Your Own AWS) personal archive on S3 Glacier Deep Archive — users deploy their own AWS stack via a single CloudFormation template that provisions S3 buckets, lifecycle rules, IAM roles, and Lambda functions. Features browser-to-S3 direct uploads with presigned URLs, client-side Canvas thumbnails, and multi-tenant auth via STS AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity.
Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismaAWS S3 GlacierSTSCloudFormationLambdaVercel10 - 003Development
rents.app
Map-Based Rental Platform
A modern, full-stack rental platform focused on helping users find and secure rentals, PGs, and shared accommodations. Built using Next.js, TypeScript and Mapbox API.
Next.jsTypeScriptMapbox APIPostgreSQLPrismaTailwindCSS10
Engineer, Bengaluru.
Software engineer at Scaler, where I converted from intern after a year. Multi-tenant platforms, the AWS underneath them, and the instrumentation that proves they hold.
Experience
- Sep 2026 — Present
Software Engineer
Scaler (InterviewBit Technologies)
Built InterviewBit Varsity end-to-end — a multi-tenant FastAPI/Celery platform for IIT and IIM degree programs serving 1M+ visitors, with a config-driven form engine over a typed enquiry → offer → payment → enrollment state machine handling ₹80L+ in fees via PayU and NBFC loan disbursal.
interviewbit.com/varsity - Sep 2025 — Sep 2026
SDE Intern
Scaler (InterviewBit Technologies)
Owned AWS infrastructure — Terraform-provisioned ECS-on-EC2, RDS Multi-AZ, ElastiCache and CloudFront across isolated staging and production, with OpenTelemetry and Sentry feeding CloudWatch → PagerDuty. Also shipped a Rails lead auto-allocation service using distributed locking, CRM activity checks and multi-layered eligibility guards.
- Feb 2025 — Aug 2025
Freelance Developer
Upwork & direct clients
Selenium-based Google Maps scraper feeding listings into an LLM for market analysis, and a stock market data scraper with automated Telegram notifications.
Now
- Role
- Software Engineer at Scaler
- Focus
- Multi-tenant platform work in FastAPI and Celery, AWS infrastructure with Terraform, LLM orchestration, and the observability to keep it honest
- Last shipped
- ai-eval-lab — an open source hiring platform that watches engineers work in a real CAD tool
Stack
Education
B.E. Computer Science
7.51 CGPAChandigarh University
2022 — 2026
CBSE 12th Grade (PCM)
83.4%Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jagiroad
2021
Notes from the build.
Mostly things I got wrong first, and what the fix turned out to be.
