Hi, I'm Shanjiv
I'm an aspiring software engineer with a strong interest in systems and infrastructure. I am always curious to explore and learn how things work under the hood. I love to build things that help people solve problems and for fun too.
Feel free to explore me xd
Education
Experience
- Developed the Next Best Actions feature, aggregating dataset health metrics and integrating remediation workflows from diverse enterprise tools across multiple Business Applications.
- Eliminated manual metric analysis by engineering a prioritized recommendation engine that routes users to the most effective dataset fixes, leading to a reduction in analysis time by several hours.
- Streamlined communication by building a notification interface to email data owners, eliminating context-switching.
- Developed a proof of concept for WAN aggregation and failover for high-availability media and vehicle connectivity.
- Simulated failovers on MPTCP and OpenWRT, ensuring quick recovery on real time applications.
- Wrote scripts to switch routing paths based on real-time link health for automated WAN failover.
- Managed the deployment and operations of IRIS, an ERP platform scaling to serve 24,000+ users.
- Architected and configured the core mail server infrastructure using Proxmox Mail Gateway, Postal and Mailu for secure and consistent email delivery.
- Load tested critical modules using k6 to handle 1,000+ concurrent users, ensuring zero downtime during peak traffic.
- Built an in-house staging environment to drive workflows for on-demand web and mobile application builds and deployments.
- Evaluated and tested high-availability databases by configuring MySQL InnoDB Clusters with Group Replication.
Extracurriculars
- Held technical sessions on Linux CLI, shell scripting, and Docker (Compose, Networking, Volumes) for 150+ attendees.
- Co-organized WebClub CTF 2025 and 2026 alongside multiple events within the Systems and Security domain.
- Served as Point of Contact for Eureka (CTF), IEEE's flagship event for 150+ participants.
- Mentored juniors on a Docker project and built a 6502 architecture NES emulator.
Featured Blogs
Discover the benefits of using Linux: open source, customizable, user-friendly, and supported by a strong community. Explore tech beyond Windows
Learn how to install and configure Git on Windows, Mac, and Linux easily
Discover how I revived an old laptop with Linux and transitioned from Windows to Ubuntu, exploring various distributions along the way
Featured Projects
Built the official website for the Centre for System Design, NITK with Next.js, Strapi CMS, and TailwindCSS.
Developed the official ticketing and registration platform for Hamfest 2026 using Next.js, Razorpay, and Strapi.
Containerized a Ruby on Rails app with MySQL, deployed with Docker, Kubernetes, and Nginx reverse proxy.
Custom memory allocator built in C, implementing malloc, free, realloc with visualization tools.