A postgraduate in his final year from IIIT, Gwalior

My technical/professional experiences:

• Software Engineer Intern - Backend '22 at Mercari JP
• Software Engineer Intern '22 at Swiggy - SuprDaily
• Backend Engineer Intern '21 at FamPay
• Software Engineer Intern '21 at Retrera
• Google Summer of Code '21 at Matplotlib (under NumFOCUS)
• Explorer Fellow Spring '21 at Major League Hacking
• Software Engineer Intern '20 at RapidQuest
• Project Trainee '19 at Defence Research and Development Organisation

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Over the last few years I’ve been exploring how technology drives the ecosystems like demand-shaping in e-commerce, payments, C2C marketplace, etc. at established firms.

I’ve gained experience by implementing, optimizing and maintaining the backend for gobs of product features.

My personal projects apply technologies including core CS academia, databases, design patterns, into realtime utilities, and are open-sourced.

Did I mention?

I find Open Source community truly amazing, some of my major contributions:

• Matplotlib
• CuPy
• NumPy
• Pitivi
• OpenCV

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I like challenges, and I solve them with:

• Python
• Golang
• C++

Tech-Stack that I'm familiar with:

• Git and GitHub
• Backend
  • GraphQL
  • Django
  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • entgo
• Frontend
  • React
  • HTML / Tailwind CSS
  • Jekyll
• Database
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
• Anaconda
• Node.js
• TFLite

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During my free time, I like to blog my journey, take part in stage & street theatres, compete in casual e-sports, and explore cuisines!

PS: I go by @aitikgupta throughout the web! \o/

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My life in bullet points:

• [7/22] Internship at Mercari, Japan begins
• [6/22] Internship at SuprDaily ends
• [3/22] Internship at SuprDaily begins
• [1/22] Internship at FamPay ends
• [9/21] Internship at FamPay begins
• [8/21] Internship at Retrera ends
• [8/21] Google Summer of Code with Matplotlib ends
• [7/21] Internship at Retrera begins
• [6/21] Google Summer of Code with Matplotlib begins
• [5/21] Proposal accepted for Google Summer of Code 2021
• [4/21] Fellowship at Major League Hacking ends
• [4/21] Top Project at Sprint 2 Hackathon
• [2/21] Top Project at Sprint 0 Hackathon
• [2/21] Fellowship at Major League Hacking begins
• [12/20] Internship at RapidQuest ends
• [10/20] Really started contributing to open-source organisations
• [10/20] First Research paper (pre-print) accepted at CoDS-COMAD 2021
• [09/20] 1st place in Ernst & Young GDS Hackathon (Theme - AI in Capacity Management): HackerEarth
• [08/20] 1st place in Game of Codes Hackathon: CodeCops, IIIT Una
• [05/20] Internship at RapidQuest begins
• [02/20] 1st place in SIH Internals at IIIT Gwalior
• [01/20] Runner-up in ML category: AASF Winter Projects
• [10/19] Completed Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera
• [08/19] Completed Machine Learning on Coursera
• [07/19] Internship at DRDO ends
• [06/19] Internship at DRDO begins