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Articles
Writing about full-stack development, scalable architecture, entrepreneurship, and lessons from building production systems for thousands of users.
Building a Certificate Generation System That Scales to 100K Daily Users
How I architected the Swadeshotsav platform using Next.js 14, BullMQ, Redis, and WebSockets to serve government certificate generation at massive scale.
2025
2 articlesMy Journey Through Generative AI at IIT Mandi
Reflections on completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Computer Science & Engineering (Generative AI) at one of India's premier technical institutes.
How We Built Doordarshan's National Web Infrastructure
A technical look at re-architecting the web presence of India's national broadcaster — multi-portal, multi-language, and built for millions of concurrent readers.
2024
7 articlesOrganising Codeathon 1.0: What Running a 100-Team Hackathon Teaches You
Behind the scenes of organising CVMU's first large-scale coding competition — logistics, judging, and why student hackathons matter more than you think.
Building an Enterprise HRMS: What I Learned About Software at Scale
Designing and shipping an HR Management System used by thousands of employees — the architectural decisions, the edge cases, and the lessons in building software that organisations depend on.
TechTrio Automation: One Year of Running a Development Studio
What I learned in the first year of founding TechTrio Automation — client relationships, scoping, pricing, and the unglamorous realities of running a small tech business.
MERN vs Next.js Full-Stack: When to Choose Which
After building production systems with both stacks, here's my honest comparison of MERN and Next.js full-stack — the trade-offs, the sweet spots, and what most comparisons miss.
Topping MCA 2023–24: What Studying While Building Taught Me
How I balanced an active client base and a company while finishing at the top of my MCA class — the study systems, the trade-offs, and the honest cost.
Building the Halol Municipality Portal: Government UX at Ground Level
What building a citizen services portal for a local municipal authority taught me about real-world UX constraints — slow connections, basic devices, and users who aren't tech-savvy.
CVMU Hackathon Win: The 36-Hour Build That Taught Me About Trade-offs
How our team won the CVMU Hackathon by making deliberate trade-offs — and why the decisions you don't make are as important as the ones you do.
2023
8 articlesTopping MCA 2022–23: Building the Foundation for Everything That Followed
The academic year that set the trajectory — how strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and systems design underpinned every professional project I've shipped since.
Building WildnRoot: E-Commerce From Zero to Launch
How I designed and shipped a full-featured e-commerce platform for a natural products brand — cart, payments, inventory, and the inevitable surprises.
Building the PNTP Government Portal: Lessons in Public Sector Development
What building a government welfare management portal taught me about compliance, stakeholder management, and the reality of public sector software delivery.
API Latency Optimisation: How I Cut Response Times by 60%
A practical walkthrough of diagnosing and fixing API performance bottlenecks in a production Node.js application — the tools, the culprits, and the fixes.
Building a Smart Parking System: Real-Time and Reliable
How I designed and built a sensor-integrated parking management system with real-time slot updates, booking, and analytics — and what I'd do differently.
Internship at Technophilia: My Introduction to Production Software
What my internship at Technophilia Solutions taught me about production code, team workflows, and the gap between academic projects and real software.
Why I Founded TechTrio Automation
The honest story behind starting TechTrio — the freelance work that preceded it, the moment I decided to formalise it, and the early mistakes that shaped how the company operates today.
From Freelancing to Founder: The Gradual Shift
How two years of freelancing shaped the way I think about clients, projects, and sustainable work — and what changed when I stopped being a freelancer and started being a founder.
2022
4 articlesWinning CODENIGMA: My First Competitive Programming Win
The preparation, the problem-solving strategies, and the mindset behind winning my first competitive programming competition at CVMU.
Completing My BSc: Three Years That Built the Programmer I Am
Looking back on my BSc in Computer Science — the projects that mattered, the subjects that shaped how I think, and the habits I built that have survived into professional work.
My First React Projects: What I Built and What I Learned
A look back at the first real React projects I shipped — the mistakes I made, the patterns I discovered, and the moment React 'clicked' for me.
Why I Chose Full-Stack Web Development as My Career Path
The reasoning behind choosing to specialise in full-stack web development over other paths — and why I think it's the right choice for builders who want to ship complete products.