Rahul K — Software Engineer

Software engineer building reliable systems : Java services, MERN stacks, and small ML experiments that hold up at scale.

[ vol. 01 · 2026 ]

Rahul

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role

Software Engineer

grad

2026 · PDA CE

status

open to offers

[ 01 ]A NOTE

— who's behind the keyboard

IbuildsoftwarethewayI'dwantitbuiltforme

readable,observable,andhonestaboutitstrade-offs.

Final-year CS student at P.D.A College of Engineering — shipping Java services, MERN apps, and CNN experiments. I care more about the systems behind the screen than the screen itself.

basedKarnataka, India

stackJava · Spring · React · Node

learningDistributed systems · DSA

off-screenOpen source · Reading · Tea

[ 02 ]TOOLBOX

— instruments I reach for

01Languages

Java.Python.JavaScript.SQL.Bash.

02Backend

Spring Boot.Maven.JUnit.Node.js.Express.REST.

03Web & DB

HTML.CSS.React.MongoDB.MySQL.

04Platform

Git.Linux.GitHub Actions.

05ML

TensorFlow.PyTorch.CNN.ANN.OpenCV.Pandas.

06Core CS

DSA.OOP.OS.DBMS.Networks.

[ 03 ]FIELD NOTES

— where I've been

Mar – Apr 2025

EDUNET Foundation × EY GDS (Remote)

MongoDB · Express · React · Node

MERN Stack Developer Intern

→Cut API latency under ~1K+ daily requests by 0%
→Lifted user retention via React state + behavior analysis by 0%
→Improved interaction responsiveness by ~0%

Feb – May 2026

Vision Astraa EV Academy · Bangalore

Python · Java · TensorFlow · PyTorch

Data Science Intern

→Built CNN model for EV-charging site detection, hitting 0% acc
→Processed satellite imagery dataset of 0K+ images
→Tuned hyperparams across 0 experiments

[ 04 ]SELECTED WORK

— things I've shipped

01 · Python · Machine Learning↗

AI Intrusion Detection.

ANN + ensemble autoencoders on ~50K+ network traffic records — improved malicious traffic detection accuracy and reduced false positives via feature scaling and anomaly detection.

0% acc gain

0% fewer FPs

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02 · Java · Python · TensorFlow · OpenCV↗

Satellite EV Hubs.

CNN-based satellite imagery pipeline in TensorFlow — preprocessing, augmentation, and tuning over ~10K+ images to identify optimal EV charging locations from commercial zones and traffic patterns.

Open Source Trail.

Contributions to freeCodeCamp (UI defect + nav fix in a 400K★ codebase), PyPA pip (`--no-binary` resolution alignment for 23.1), and Spinnaker (Kubernetes deployment docs).

0 orgs

0M+ users

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0M+

users reached (OSS)

major OSS orgs

0 / 10

CGPA · B.E. CSE

hackathons · 2025

[ 05 ]RECEIPTS

— papers, badges, footnotes

B.E. Computer Science

P.D.A College of Engineering, Karnataka — graduating 2026 · CGPA 8.16/10. Four years of late libraries, half-debugged builds, and the slow learning of patience.

·Deloitte · Cybersecurity Job Sim

·Deloitte · Data Analyst Job Sim

·Deloitte · AWS Job Sim

·IBM SkillsBuild · Cybersecurity Analyst

·AWS Cloud Practitioner (GFG)

·Principles of Cloud Computing

·HackToFuture 2025 · Full-stack

·Google Agentic AI 2025

·Bharatiya Antariksh 2025 · ISRO

[ 06 ]GET IN TOUCH

— a quiet line, an open inbox

let'sbuild

something

rahulkotargasthi@gmail.com ↗

LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗+91 91481 17691 ↗

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