Shaswat Raj
Software Engineer · CS @ BIT Mesra (2022–2026) · Open-Source Contributor
79 PRs merged into repos I don't own — including a merged fix into Google's gemini-cli. Specializing in high-performance web systems, distributed tools, Model Context Protocol (MCP) infrastructure, and scalable AI agent architectures.
Engineering Highlights
30tools — Scaled to 4.3M+ Requests
High-performance developer utility platform engineered for sub-millisecond client-side execution. Scaled to 4.3M+ requests, 213K+ monthly active users, and 500K+ search impressions via programmatic SEO architecture.
CampusLoop — Verified College Social Network
Building the verified student-only campus network for 1,350+ Indian colleges. Gatekept by institutional college emails to enable anonymous campus feeds, real-time canteen polls, student marketplace, and encrypted batch time capsules.
Merged fix into Google's gemini-cli
Traced and fixed a cancellation bug in a 107k-star TypeScript codebase (#20405): the active turn's AbortSignal wasn't reaching chat compression, so Ctrl+C left in-flight LLM calls running on a detached controller. Threaded the signal through LocalAgentExecutor and GeminiClient into the compression service. Reviewed and merged by a Google maintainer.
Bitotsav 2026 — Tech Lead & Cloud Infrastructure
Architected high-concurrency event infrastructure serving ~5,000 live participants. Built offline-resilient QR access verification, low-latency Redis state caches, real-time leaderboard telemetry, and AI participant services.
Kishan AI — AICTE APF Round 1 Shortlist (Top 500 across India)
Selected in Round 1 Top 500 nationally across India. Engineered multimodal AI for rural agriculture: offline-tolerant crop pathology vision models, regional voice synthesis, and real-time mandi pricing analytics.
IndexFast & MCP Pure — Agent Infrastructure
Engineered Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on Cloudflare Workers and a multi-engine indexing pipeline for Google, Bing, and IndexNow protocols with sub-second propagation.
Open source
GitHub15k+
Contributions
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Signal Stat
79
External PRs merged
800+
Followers
Recent contributions (79PRs merged into repos I don't own)
Site Performance
Lighthouse ReportStatic export deployed to GitHub Pages. Zero tracking, minimal client runtime, and pure static asset delivery.
TODO(shaswat): generate and commit a real Lighthouse run to public/lighthouse.html before publishing benchmark scoresFeatured Projects
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30tools
2024 – PresentHigh-performance developer and creator utility platform engineered for sub-millisecond client-side execution. Scaled to 4.3M+ requests and 213K+ monthly active users via programmatic SEO architecture.
CampusLoop
2026 – PresentVerified student-only campus network for 1,350+ Indian colleges. Gatekept by institutional college email verification to enable anonymous confessions, real-time campus feeds, student marketplace, canteen polls, and batch time capsules.
Debo
2025An AI memory system that ingests notes, links, audio, and conversations, embeds them for retrieval, and surfaces relevant context through a chat interface — a personal RAG pipeline over everything you capture day to day. Built solo end-to-end: ingestion, vector search, and the agent layer on top.
Technical Depth
Systems & Languages
Backend & Distributed Systems
AI & Agentic Architectures
Cloud, Edge & Infrastructure
Frontend & Performance
Honors & Fellowships
Collegiate Hackathon Wins
2023 – 2025
TODO(shaswat): name the 3 largest wins with links/proof — unverifiable aggregate counts are weaker than named, verified wins.
AICTE Productization Fellowship (APF) 2025
May - July 2025
Shortlisted in Round 1 (Top 500 across India). Developed Kishan AI, an AI-powered Telegram Assistant for farmers with crop disease diagnosis, weather insights, and mandi prices.
Apify Hackathon Winner
2025
Won $100 in the Apify web scraping hackathon. Built a production-ready scraping actor using Apify SDK for automated data extraction from web platforms.
BIT Mesra — B.Tech, Computer Science
2022 – 2026
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science. Active in hackathons, open source, and product building.
About
I am a software engineer focused on building robust, scalable systems and developer tooling. With 79 external PRs merged into open-source repositories I don't own, I take pride in end-to-end craftsmanship — from low-level API design and fault-tolerant cloud backends to razor-sharp, accessible frontends. Currently building CampusLoop (the verified campus network for 1,350+ Indian colleges), architecting MCP server infrastructure, and contributing to open source.
Get in touch
Open to Software Engineering & Founding Engineer roles, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure. Contact me
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