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Hello world ๐Ÿ‘‹

I'm Saiprasad Rao, a CS undergrad from Bengaluru โ€” welcome to my little corner on the Internet.

i build things for the web. backends, frontends, whatever it takes to make an idea real. currently deep into real-time systems, AI tooling, and the occasional hackathon grind.

started with curiosity, stayed for the craft.

reach me at โœ‰๏ธ saiprasadrao1234@gmail.comย ยทย GitHubย ยทย LinkedIn

๐Ÿ“„ my resume


Experience
  • ๐Ÿš€ Backend Developer Intern at HackWithIndia
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Built and scaled an automated certificate generation and email system delivering 100,000+ certificates/day for devnovate.co.

Projects
  • ๐Ÿค– Second Brain
    A self-hosted AI assistant for automated message organization, intent-based task extraction, and semantic knowledge retrieval across Telegram and WhatsApp.
    Live โ†— ยท GitHub โ†—
    [Node.js] [SQLite]
  • ๐Ÿค– BlackBox
    A self-hosted OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway providing authenticated GPT-style inference APIs with reliable Ollama orchestration, request observability, and usage analytics.
    Live โ†— ยท GitHub โ†—
    [FastAPI] [SQLite]
  • ๐Ÿš Safar Saathi
    Real-time bus tracking system with 3-second location updates, built for high-frequency data streaming.
    Live โ†— ยท GitHub โ†—
    [Node.js] [Supabase] [TypeScript] [Fastify] [REST API]
  • ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ ScamShield
    AI-powered scam detection tool that extracts and analyzes text from screenshots using OCR.
    Live โ†— ยท GitHub โ†—
    [Next.js] [FastAPI] [Pytesseract] [NextAuth] [OCR]
  • ๐Ÿ˜Š Mood Diary
    Privacy-first journaling app with local-only storage and instant mood insights.
    Live โ†—
    [HTML] [CSS] [JavaScript]

Stack
  • languages โ€” C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • frontend โ€” React.js, Next.js, TailwindCSS, Three.js
  • backend โ€” Node.js, Fastify, Express, Spring, FastAPI
  • databases โ€” MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Supabase
  • tools โ€” Git, Docker, Swagger, Figma

Extras
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technical Team Lead @ Udbhava
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ Top 10 โ€” CodeFury 8.0 National Hackathon (UVCE)