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Mrutyunjay
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Building scalable backends, championing open-source culture, and organizing East India's largest student hackathons.
Experience
Where I've Worked & Led
Backend Engineering Intern
Zurekaa
Feb 2026 — May 2026
- Engineered a highly modular web scraping pipeline utilizing Playwright and Puppeteer to extract, process, and normalize global scholarship and grant data from complex, dynamic international portals.
- Architected scalable backend services using TypeScript, Express.js, and PostgreSQL, implementing strict Zod validation schemas to guarantee data integrity and eliminate database insertion failures.
- Developed an automated Lab Import REST API featuring intelligent rate-limiting and robust foreign-key sequence management to perfectly synchronize nested entities.
Product Contributor — Backend Developer
InternOrbit
Dec 2025
- Built and secured robust backend API architecture using Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB for a dynamic platform connecting students with startup internships.
- Designed an automated and validated PDF/DOC resume upload pipeline with strict file-type validation and size limits.
- Successfully integrated Google's Gemini API for advanced AI-assisted document parsing, enabling the platform to accurately extract structured professional data and power instantaneous, automated user profile generation.
Lead
FOSS Club, IIIT Kalyani (under FOSS United)
Sep 2024 — Aug 2025
- Spearheaded public relations and strategic community outreach initiatives for the club.
- Successfully negotiated and secured crucial sponsorships and partnerships to fund club activities.
- Directed and hosted over 10 hands-on open-source technical workshops, mentoring a community of 100+ students in modern software development practices.
Projects
Things I've Built
CookethOrg
View ProjectDeveloped the official website and digital presence for the CookethOrg organization, focusing on a clean, responsive user interface and accessible layout.
Olypedia
View ProjectFull-stack freelance platform built with Django, HTML, and Tailwind CSS, featuring dynamic content management and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.
IdeaHack
View ProjectResponsive web application engineered during a high-pressure 24-hour hackathon, utilizing React.js and Firebase with modular, reusable UI components.
Search Engine Optimizer
Custom Java-based search engine implementing advanced web crawling, keyword indexing, and graph-theory ranking mechanisms, successfully optimizing query processing to reduce response times by 20%.
↓ 20% response time
Tech Stack