Hi, I'm Keshav.
I build things that scale.
I write the schema, design the API, and ship the React UI — 3.5 years building the production systems running higher education across India.
A builder who never stops learning.
Full-stack engineer, 3.5 years. I build the systems that run higher education across India — four enterprise modules on Samarth, the Ministry of Education's national university platform, owned end to end from PHP/Yii2 backends and MySQL to the React UI that university staff use every day.
My work is the full stack: I gather requirements directly from institutions, translate complex rules into clean data models and state machines, then ship the UI. Multi-tenant from day one, RBAC-secured, audit-grade by design — one codebase, zero forks, every university.
Now I'm growing. I want to move into Product Management — I've spent 3.5 years at the intersection of user needs, engineering tradeoffs, and real deployment; I'm ready to own the product, not just the code. I'm also diving into Gen AI and LLMs as a beginner, and I'm completely fine with that — I learn by building, breaking, and going again. Eat, sleep, learn, repeat. And rest. The path never ends.
Full-Stack Engineer · 3.5 years
I build production systems end to end — PHP/Yii2 backends and MySQL schemas to React 19 TypeScript frontends. Four enterprise modules on Samarth, running 100+ universities across India.
Growing into Product
3.5 years at the intersection of user needs, engineering tradeoffs, and real deployment. I gather requirements, design the system, ship the code, then watch it run. I'm ready to own the product, not just the code.
Gen AI Beginner. Deliberately.
Diving into LLMs and agentic AI as a beginner — and completely fine with that. I learn by building, breaking, and going again. Eat, sleep, learn, repeat. And rest. The path never ends.
Currently at
Samarth eGov · Ministry of Education
Building
Gen AI side projects + this site
Learning
LLMs · agentic AI · product thinking
I believe
The engineer who understands the product is the most valuable one in the room
Where I've been shipping.
National-scale platforms, mission-critical systems, and the cross-functional work that makes them ship on time.
- Jan 2025 – Present · 1.5 yrs
Samarth eGov × Ministry of Education (Samarth)
Software Developer C · Full-Stack & Systems Architecture- Promoted to Software Developer C — a title that still undersells the scope: sole end-to-end architect on 4 of the platform's 20+ enterprise modules, owning everything from blank schema to production.
- Designed the Affiliation automatic fee & billing engine — fee heads configured once per affiliation-type × institution × programme-type; the engine resolves programmes→courses→subjects, prices by basis (flat / per-course / per-subject), applies date-windowed late fees, and emits a fully itemized bill without human intervention.
- Engineered a streaming Excel→S3 background export queue (yii\queue + PhpSpreadsheet, 25k rows/sheet, GC + 85% memory-threshold guard, S3 retry/backoff, live cron progress) — hundreds of colleges export without OOM.
- Translated Ministry of Education mandates directly into data models and shipped them — no PM layer, just engineer to stakeholder to production.
- Set architecture, code-review, and documentation standards; mentored junior engineers across all modules.
- Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs
Samarth eGov × Ministry of Education (Samarth)
Junior Software Developer · Full-Stack- Built MPDD from scratch: FIFO inventory (4-bucket stock invariant, single atomic mutator, 200+ daily issues), 11-state allocation engine with append-only audit log, procurement pipeline (PR→PO→GRN), barcode/QR label designer, and bulk Excel import.
- Built the Estate module: hierarchical asset register (building→floor→room→washroom), scenario-driven 4-step building form, ARMO civil-works quotations & repair estimates, C3.js/D3 analytics dashboard, bulk import.
- Built eHousing: employee accommodation allocation composing Estate's housing register and Employee profiles — true cross-module integration without data duplication; bulk import.
- Designed the platform's multi-tenant foundation — institution-scoped data isolation so one codebase serves every university with zero cross-tenant leakage.
- Led v1→v2 re-architecture — removed years of technical debt, standardised UX for non-technical operators, unified API patterns and bulk-import patterns across all modules.
- Jan – Jun 2022 · 6 months
Samarth eGov
Software Engineering Intern · Backend- Developed backend modules in PHP/Yii2 and optimised complex SQL queries — improved API response times by ~30%.
- Collaborated with the product team to design RESTful endpoints powering real-time institutional dashboards.
Systems I've architected.
Four enterprise modules built from the schema up for a national university platform — plus client work. Each one is a problem, an architecture, and a decision trail. Tap any card for the full story.
MPDD — Material Distribution Platform
End-to-end university kit procurement, inventory, allocation, and dispatch — rebuilt from the schema up as a multi-tenant platform for institutions across India.
Affiliation & Compliance Platform
Regulatory affiliation lifecycle for colleges seeking university affiliation — automatic fee & billing engine, committee inspection workspaces, statutory reporting, and a streaming Excel→S3 export queue. 63 models, 30+ controllers.
Multi-Modal Evidence Review
An AI system that verifies insurance damage claims by reasoning over submitted photos, the claim conversation, and user history — deciding whether the image evidence supports, contradicts, or is insufficient for the claim, and classifying the damage type, part, severity, and fraud/quality risks.
Estate Management System
University physical-infrastructure asset register — buildings, floors, rooms, roads, and civil works — with cost estimation, ARMO repair workflows, C3.js/D3 analytics, and bulk import.
eHousing — Employee Accommodation
University employee quarters allocation — preference-based matching against live housing inventory, with cross-module integration into Estate's housing register and the Employee profile system.
MavenEstate.in — Real Estate Platform
Premium real-estate site delivered for a freelance client — property listings, lead capture, and a responsive landing experience tuned for conversions.
Social Posting App
A social posting app with authentication and realtime data — create, view, and manage posts backed by Firebase.
Car Rental Site
Car-rental booking interface — vehicle listings, filtering, and a clean responsive booking flow.
Airbnb Landing Clone
A pixel-faithful, fully responsive clone of the Airbnb landing experience — an exercise in precise layout and component fidelity.
How I think about systems.
The principles behind every module I build — the difference between code that works once and a platform that holds up at national scale.
Multi-tenant by default
Every table is institution-scoped and auto-isolated. One codebase serves many universities with zero cross-tenant leakage — scale without forking.
Atomic, never corrupt
All stock changes flow through a single mutator inside DB transactions, holding a strict invariant. Idempotency keys make retries and double-clicks safe.
Configurable, not hard-coded
A dynamic property registry and per-institution rule engines mean new fields and policies ship without code changes or redeploys.
Audit-grade by design
State transitions are explicit and append-only logged. Every approval, dispatch, and permission change is attributable and inspection-ready.
RBAC you can reason about
A 14-verb permission matrix with cloneable role templates and a "view-as-role" inspector — institutions customise access without touching code.
Built for real operators
Designed for non-technical staff on low-res screens: plain language, readable type, drawer-based flows, and errors that explain what to do next.
Allocation lifecycle
live workflow engineAn 11-state machine with audit logging at every transition — simplified to the happy path here.
What I ship & what I'm studying.
Honest split: production-tested stack on the left, side-quest stack on the right. The list on the right is where I spend my evenings.
At Work
What I architect and ship in production
Personal & Always Learning
Side projects, certifications, and what's next
Receipts for the learning.
Tap any card to preview the credential. The list grows — I'm always picking up a new track.
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
Krishna Engineering College, Ghaziabad (AKTU University)
- Winner — Inter College Innovative Idea Competition (Smart Campus solution)
- Core Member — IEEE IDC Initiative · led tech workshops for 200+ students
- Technical Presenter — IIT Varanasi TechFest (GovTech research track)
- Outstanding Technical Contribution Award — Samarth eGov (Q2 2024)
Got an idea worth scaling?
I'm open to architect-level roles, freelance builds, and Gen-AI collaborations. The fastest path to me is email.