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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
Assistive Wearable System
⟨/⟩ GitHubA wearable assistive system designed for visually and hearing-impaired individuals that integrates real-time obstacle detection, intuitive haptic navigation, and hand gesture-to-speech communication into a single device. The system combines embedded hardware, multiple sensors, and computer vision to improve mobility, spatial awareness, and everyday communication.
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
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