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Shaswat Raj

Software Engineer · Open-Source Builder

I build software that survives real users.

I build high-performance web systems, developer infrastructure, and AI tooling end-to-end — from architecture and APIs to production and iteration.

79

external PRs merged

4.3M+

SopKit requests

213K+

SopKit visits

5K+

event participants

Open source

GitHub

15k+

Contributions

500++

Public Repos

79

External PRs merged

800+

Followers

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonCSSHTML

Featured Projects

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SopKit (formerly 30tools) preview

SopKit (formerly 30tools)

2024 – Present

Privacy-first suite of 605+ free online developer, image, PDF, and productivity tools running 100% client-side via WebAssembly. Scaled to 4.3M+ requests and 213K+ visits with zero server compute bills. Switched from 30tools.com to sopkit.github.io for sustainable, permanent open-source hosting.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSWebAssembly
CampusLoop preview

CampusLoop

2026 – Present

Verified 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.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSPostgreSQL
Google Gemini CLI (PR #20778) preview

Google Gemini CLI (PR #20778)

2025

Core contribution to Google's official gemini-cli. Fixed in-flight stream cancellation race conditions and memory leaks by threading AbortSignal through multi-turn chat compression pipelines. Reviewed and merged upstream by Google engineers.

TypeScriptNode.jsGemini APIOpen Source
Bitotsav '26 Tech Platform preview

Bitotsav '26 Tech Platform

2026

Architected high-concurrency event infrastructure serving 5,000+ live participants. Built offline-resilient cryptographic QR access verification, low-latency Redis state caches, real-time leaderboard telemetry, and AI participant services.

Next.jsPostgreSQLRedisOpenAI

Capabilities

What I work with

Systems & Languages

TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
SQL
Bash / Shell

Backend & Distributed Systems

Node.js
Express
PostgreSQL
Redis
Prisma
Database Optimization
WebSockets
REST / GraphQL

AI & Agentic Architectures

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Gemini API
Claude API
OpenAI
RAG Pipelines
Vector Search
Multimodal Agents

Cloud, Edge & Infrastructure

Cloudflare Workers / Edge
Docker
Vercel
AWS
GitHub Actions CI/CD
Linux Server Admin

Frontend & Performance

Next.js (App Router)
React
Tailwind CSS
State Machines
Web Vitals & Performance
Programmatic SEO

Honors & Fellowships

Collegiate Hackathons & Innovation Challenges

Collegiate Hackathons & Innovation Challenges

2023 – 2025

Active builder across university hackathons and open-source challenges, shipping rapid prototypes in AI developer tooling, automation pipelines, and modern web applications.

AICTE Productization Fellowship (APF) 2025

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

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.

BM

BIT Mesra — B.Tech, Computer Science

2022 – 2026

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science. Active in hackathons, open source, and product building.

About

I like owning the whole path: understanding the problem, choosing the architecture, writing the product, deploying it, measuring what happens, and iterating. My open-source work includes 79 external PRs, including a merged contribution to Google's gemini-cli.

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Get in touch

Open to software engineering and founding-engineer opportunities, especially around systems, developer tooling, and AI infrastructure. Contact me

Available for full-time roles · Remote / relocation