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A S ManojStill figuring it out —
and genuinely enjoying it.

Full-Stack Developer & Open-Source Contributor I build things, break things, and fix them with Fedora and coffee.

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ABOUT

Who I am, briefly.

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The Story

I'mafinal-yearComputerSciencestudentatSSNCollegeofEngineering,usuallyfoundsomewherebetweenaterminalandachessboard.I'minterestedinbuildingthingsthatsolvereal-worldproblemsacampusmarketplacewithreal-timechat,anAI-poweredDSAtutorandI'verecentlystartedcontributingtoopen-sourceprojectsIactuallyuse.

Outsideofcode,I'macompetitivechessplayer.IalsocreatedDeadCodersSociety,anInstagrampagethatgrewto15,000followersintwomonths,teachingprogrammingfundamentalsthroughinteractivechallenges.

WhenI'mnotcoding,I'mprobablythinkingaboutmynextmove.

EDUCATION

SSN College

BE Computer Science

2023 – 2027

CGPA:8.2/10

FOCUS

Full-Stack Development, Cloud, AI Integration

BASED IN

Chennai, India

FEATURED PROJECTS

Things I've built.

CampusMarketPlace

A secure, real-time marketplace for university students to buy, sell, and trade within their campus community.

  • Real-time chat at scale — Socket.io with a Redis Pub/Sub adapter for horizontal scaling across multiple server instances
  • Secure by design — JWT auth in HttpOnly cookies, Bcrypt password hashing, Helmet.js security headers, rate-limited API endpoints
  • Full admin dashboard with role-based access control and a built-in support ticket system
  • Cloud-hosted image uploads via Multer + Cloudinary
  • Fully containerized with Docker Compose, orchestrating MySQL, Redis, the Node backend, and an Nginx-served frontend
  • Deployed live on Render
Node.jsExpressMySQLSocket.ioRedisDockerJWT

DSA Club

In Progress — Private Repo

An AI-powered DSA practice platform that coaches through Socratic hints instead of handing out answers.

  • A guard-classified hint engine (Gemini API) that never reveals the algorithm — calibrates hint specificity based on hints used, and redirects off-topic or pasted-solution attempts
  • A full mock-interview mode with live voice transcription (Azure Speech SDK), sequential follow-up questions, and AI-scored feedback on clarity and technical depth
  • JWT + Google OAuth authentication, MongoDB-backed streak tracking
  • React/Vite frontend, Node/Express backend with structured error handling
ReactNode.jsMongoDBGoogle Gemini APIAzure Speech SDK

OPEN SOURCE

Giving back to the code I use.

"What man is a man who does not make the world a better place?"

That's stuck with me since I first heard it — it's part of why I started contributing to open-source projects I actually use, instead of just filing issues and moving on.

Actively contributing since June 2026

EXPERIENCE

Where I've worked.

Intern

@ CX365

1 month

Hands-on cloud application development on AWS, building serverless functions and event-driven pipelines.

  • Built serverless functions with AWS Lambda for input validation, batch processing, and duplicate request handling
  • Automated storage workflows with Amazon S3 — CSV-to-JSON conversion, image compression via Lambda Layers, metadata extraction
  • Designed NoSQL backend systems with DynamoDB, including a CRUD-based management system, an attendance tracker using composite keys, and an order system with GSI filtering
  • Configured IAM roles and policies for secure Lambda execution and resource access
  • Processed speech with Amazon Transcribe — transcription, PII redaction, speaker diarization, and sentiment analysis
  • Generated AI-powered summaries and structured insights from transcripts using Amazon Bedrock
AWS LambdaS3DynamoDBIAMTranscribeBedrockCloudWatchCloudShell

SKILLS

What I work with.

LANGUAGES

PythonC/C++JavaJavaScriptHTML/CSSSQLBash

FRONTEND

ReactViteReact Router

BACKEND

Node.jsExpress.jsSocket.ioREST API Design

DATABASES

MySQLMongoDBJDBC

CLOUD & DEVOPS

AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Transcribe, Bedrock)DockerDocker ComposeNginxRenderVercelAzure (VMs — Linux)

AI/ML

Google Gemini APIAzure Speech SDKPrompt Engineering

AUTH & SECURITY

JWTOAuth (Google)BcryptHelmet.jsRate Limiting

TOOLS

GitVS CodePostmanBrowser DevToolsLinux TerminalWSL
GitHub contribution graph
LeetCode stats

OUTSIDE THE CODE

What else I do.

Founder & Content Creator · Dead Coders Society

"Where Normal Code Ends, We Begin"

Founded and grew a programming-focused Instagram page to 15,000 followers in two months, sharing practical coding tricks, tips, and lesser-known language features — reaching over 3M views total.

  • Grew the page organically to 15K followers in two months, purely through content people found genuinely useful
  • Generated 3M+ total views across posts
Content StrategyCommunity BuildingTechnical Communication
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