Software Developer C · architect in the making · aspiring PM

Intern. Jr Developer. Software Developer C. A title that still undersells what I own.

Jan 2023 to now — sole full-stack architect on 4 of 20+ modules on a national government platform, translating Ministry of Education mandates directly into production systems. Growing toward Product Management and Gen AI engineering.

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promotions in 3.5 yrs
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modules owned end to end

How I operate

"Give me an ambiguous mandate and a deadline. I'll return a shipped platform, a maintainable codebase, and a team that can run it without me."

In this world

Impact in numbersStakeholder mapCareer timeline

Impact in numbers

Outcomes, not output

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promotions in 3.5 yrs
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universities served
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modules owned end to end
Keshav Krishan Sharma
About

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.

Now

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

Who I deliver across

One architect, many stakeholders

I translate an ambiguous government mandate into shipped software — sitting between policy, regulators, institutions and the engineers who keep it all running.

KeshavMinistry of Educationmandate & policy100+ Universitiesend users & rolloutRegulatorscompliance & auditEngineering teammentored & ledUniversity stakeholdersrequirement discovery

The arc

Where I've been. Where I'm going.

Two promotions in 3.5 years — not by waiting, by building things that matter at national scale. The next step isn't a secret.

Intern

Jan – Jun 2022 · Samarth eGov

  • Built first PHP/Yii2 backend modules
  • Optimised SQL → ~30% API speedup
  • Learned the Samarth platform from the inside

Junior Software Developer

Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · Samarth eGov × Ministry of Education

  • Built MPDD end-to-end: FIFO inventory, 11-state allocation engine, procurement pipeline
  • Built Estate: hierarchical asset register, ARMO civil works, D3 analytics
  • Built eHousing: cross-module integration composing Estate + Employee data
  • Designed multi-tenant foundation — zero cross-institution leakage
  • Led v1→v2 re-architecture across modules

Software Developer C

now

Jan 2025 – Present · Samarth eGov × Ministry of Education

  • Promoted — a title that still undersells the scope
  • Sole architect on 4 of 20+ platform modules
  • Built Affiliation auto fee & billing engine + streaming export queue
  • Translating Ministry mandates directly to production systems
  • Setting architecture & documentation standards across the team

What's Next

Open to opportunities

📋Product Manager

3.5 years at the intersection of user needs, engineering trade-offs, and real deployment. I've been the unofficial PM on every module I built — now I want the title.

🏗️Solutions Architect

Already doing it. Multi-tenant design, state machines, cross-module composition, national-scale data models — I want to formalise what I've been building.

🤖Gen AI Engineer

Beginner — completely fine with that. I learn by building and breaking. Already shipped a multi-modal evidence review system. Eat, sleep, build, repeat.

Recognition
  • 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)

Let's connect

Open to the right opportunity.

Full-stack engineer with 3.5 years building national-scale systems. Growing into Product and Gen AI. If you're working on something interesting — reach out.