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IIT Bhubaneswar · 2021–2026

Subhransu Priyaranjan Nayak

Software Developer & AI Engineer

IIT Bhubaneswar graduate experienced in scalable backend infrastructure, distributed architectures, and RAG pipelines. The proven track record of architecting low-latency AP Key-Value Store (Amazon Dynamo model), decoupled event-driven microservices, and high-throughput analytical platforms. Active competitive programmer passionate about tackling complex Data Structures and Algorithms challenges under tight complexity constraints.

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Competitive Programming

Algorithmic Achievements

1,500+ problems solved across major platforms. Consistent performance in algorithmic contests.

Platform Ratings

Codeforces

@Quantum-Questor

Pupil
1,345Peak Rating

Pupil

200+ problems solved
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LeetCode

@Subhransu_Nayak_07

Knight
1,934Peak Rating

Top 4% Globally

1,000+ problems solved
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CodeChef

@quantum_07

3★ Rated
1,682Peak Rating

3-Star Division 2

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Hackathon Honors

Bronze Medal - Inter IIT Tech Meet 10.0 (2022)

Secured 3rd position representing IIT Bhubaneswar in the `Gmetri's Growth Strategy for Metaverse` event at Inter-IIT Tech Meet 10.0 conducted by IIT Kharagpur, designing strategic growth frameworks and solutions for emerging metaverse ecosystems.

Intra-IIT Hackathon - Game Dev 3rd Place

Engineered `Medieval Maze Quest`, a 3D first-person puzzle-dungeon game built in Unreal Engine 5. Implemented core gameplay systems in C++, including physics handle raycasting for dynamic object interactions, custom actor movement interpolation, and tag-based trigger volumes for interactive environmental puzzles.

Intra-IIT Hackathon - WebDev 3rd Place

Architected and built a full-stack Academic ERP system featuring dedicated portals for students and administrators. Key implementations include automated course registration, attendance tracking, student profile management, feedback collection, grading views, and a SAC equipment issuance workflow using React, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.

Career

Work Experience

Industry internships and engineering contributions - with verified credentials.

Industry Experience

Data Engineering · Analytics

Data Engineering Intern

HealthyDay
Hybrid, India
Current
  • Engineered a BigQuery-based data processing layer for a platform serving 600K+ registered students, integrating Firestore and relational operational data by developing 50+ reusable SQL views with CTEs, window functions, JSON parsing, regex classification, and temporal deduplication.
  • Designed and optimized 150+ complex SQL queries and data pipelines across user attendance, referral, subscription, payment, and messaging workflows using incremental aggregation strategies and query tuning.
Google BigQuerySQLPythonLooker StudioFirestorePostgreSQLData Modeling

AI Engineering

Software/AI Engineering Intern

Hanyaa Auto Technologies
Hyderabad, India
Completed
  • Engineered an AI text-to-animated-video narration pipeline for Indian languages (English, Hindi, Telugu ) by fine-tuning Dia-TTS (1.6B), optimizing training with dynamic LR scheduling and gradient clipping to eliminate robotic artifacts.
  • Architected a long-form audio generation engine with sentence chunking (NLTK), input text normalization, failure-handling retry logic, and seed-locked speaker consistency (IS11 tag) for coherent synthesis.
PythonPyTorchTransformersXTTSDia-TTS (1.6B)Gemini 2.5 Flash APINLTKStreamlit

Engineering

Projects Showcase

Production-grade systems and tools - built with real architectural trade-offs in distributed systems, real-time systems, and AI engineering.

The Flagship Implementations

Distributed Systems

DynamoCore

End-to-End Implementation of the Amazon Dynamo (2007) Distributed Key-Value Store

  • Built a distributed AP key-value store with asynchronous quorum consensus (N=3, W=2, R=2) via non-blocking CompletableFuture pipelines, achieving 12 ms p99 write latency under concurrent load.
  • Implemented a consistent hashing ring (150 virtual nodes/host, MurmurHash3) with O(log N) key routing, achieving sub-4% load distribution deviation and bounded node-join/leave data migration to K/N.
JavaRocksDBMavenConsistent Hashing(MurmurHash3)JDK HttpServerGossip ProtocolVector ClocksJava ConcurrencyMerkle TreeQuorum ConsensusDocker

Microservices · Real-time

UrbanEats

Real-Time Spatial Courier Dispatch & Resilient Order Fulfillment Microservices

  • Decoupled core domains into 6 autonomous Node.js/TypeScript microservices communicating via HTTP and asynchronous RabbitMQ AMQP message queues, ensuring fault tolerance and zero-downtime service autonomy.
  • Built real-time courier dispatch with MongoDB 2dsphere spatial indexing and $nearSphere queries to match nearest courier within 500 m; streamed live GPS telemetry at 10-second intervals via Socket.IO room-based routing.
React.jsNode.jsTypeScriptExpress.jsRabbitMQ(AMQP)Socket.IO(WebSockets)MongoDBLeafletDocker

AI / Agentic Systems

Enterprise RAG Orchestrator

Stateful Multi-Path Reasoning Engine with Human-In-The-Loop Governance

  • Built a stateful multi-path reasoning engine with LangGraph and PostgreSQL checkpointers dynamically routing queries across RAG, Text-to-SQL, and Hybrid paths; implemented CRAG web fallbacks and Self-RAG reflection loops to reduce hallucinations across a 95% noise document corpus.
  • Engineered a multi-stage retrieval pipeline with Qdrant hybrid search (Dense + Sparse TF-IDF via RRF), HyDE expansion, and Cross-Encoder reranking (Top-20 to Top-5), backed by a 5-tier cryptographic Redis cache.
PythonFastAPILangGraphQdrantUpstash RedisPostgreSQLDockerRagas
Other Projects & Learnings

Realtime Collaborative Editor

A full-stack, real-time collaborative document editor featuring CRDT-based multi-user concurrent editing, live cursor presence, and rich-text formatting. Built with a reactive serverless architecture using Convex and Liveblocks to handle zero-latency synchronization, paired with Clerk for edge-authenticated access control and document organization.

Next.jsConvexLiveblocksTiptapClerkTypeScript+2
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Transaction Processing Ledger Backend

A double-entry financial ledger and transaction processing API built with Node.js and MongoDB. Features immutable debit-credit audit trails, multi-account balance management, JWT blacklisting, and async email alerts to ensure strict data integrity across money transfers.

Node.jsExpress.jsMongoDBMongooseJWTBcrypt+2
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IIT Bhubaneswar GC 2024 Mobile App

A cross-platform mobile application developed with React Native and Expo to track IIT Bhubaneswar's General Championship (GC) 2024. Features real-time sports and tech/cultural event schedules, live scorecards, points tally leaderboards, interactive team following, and an integrated admin panel for match and event score updates.

React NativeExpoJavaScriptReact Navigation
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Game Dev Hackathon - 3rd Place

Medieval Maze Quest

A first-person medieval dungeon puzzle game built in Unreal Engine 5 featuring modular C++ game mechanics, physics-based object manipulation via line tracing, and tag-filtered trigger systems for environmental puzzle solving.

Unreal Engine 5C++Physics HandleComponent Architecture
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WebDev Hackathon - 3rd Place

Campus ERP System

Built an end-to-end MERN ERP suite delivering modular role-based portals for academic workflows, automated course registration, attendance monitoring, and stateful SAC inventory and equipment lifecycle management.

ReactViteNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDB
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Capabilities

Tech-Stacks & Skills

Tools, frameworks, and systems I work with across the engineering stack.

Core Languages

C++JavaPythonCTypeScriptJavaScript (ES6+)SQLHTML5 / CSS3

AI & LLM Engineering

LangGraphGenAILLMsRAG PipelinesVector DBs (Qdrant)PyTorchHugging Face TransformersTensorFlowScikit-learnXGBoostNLTK

Core Computer Science

Data Structures & AlgorithmsOperating Systems & MultithreadingComputer NetworksDatabase Management Systems (DBMS)Object-Oriented Programming (OOPs)SOLID PrinciplesDesign Patterns

Backend & Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems DesignMicroservices Architecture & HLDFastAPINode.js & Express.jsRabbitMQ (AMQP)Socket.io (WebSockets)Data ModellingPostgreSQLBigQueryMongoDBFirestoreAPI Design

Frontend

Next.js (App Router)React.jsReact NativeTailwind CSSStreamlitDocker & Kubernetes BasicsGitCI / CDLinux & Bash

Research & Curated Reading Log

The Papershelf

A curated collection of landmark research papers I have studied and deconstructed to master systems internals, trace architectural evolution, and ground my engineering in first principles.

💡Click any paper for key architectural takeaways and TL;DRs

Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store (2007)

Distributed Systems & Storage
The Problem

Providing always-on, high-throughput storage for critical e-commerce cart operations where network partitions and hardware failures are regular occurrences.

Core Breakthrough

Combining consistent hashing, sloppy quorums with hinted handoffs, Merkle tree anti-entropy, and vector clocks to achieve high availability (AP in CAP theorem) without global locks.

Engineering Takeaways
  • Tuning N, W, R parameters allows dynamic trade-offs between consistency and latency at runtime.
  • Gossip protocols drastically minimize centralized coordination overhead in large-scale distributed clusters.

Attention Is All You Need (2017) - Transformers Guide

LLM Architecture & Deep Learning
The Problem

Sequential bottlenecks and vanishing gradients in recurrent networks (RNNs/LSTMs) preventing efficient parallelized long-context training.

Core Breakthrough

Introducing the Transformer architecture based entirely on multi-head scaled dot-product self-attention mechanisms, enabling full parallelization.

Engineering Takeaways
  • O(N²) sequence length computation necessitates memory optimizations like FlashAttention during inference.
  • Selective KV-caching is essential for high-throughput inference serving in production LLM deployments.

Corrective Retrieval Augmented Generation (CRAG, 2024)

Agentic AI & RAG Pipelines
The Problem

Standard RAG pipelines indiscriminately pass irrelevant or hallucinated retrieved chunks into the generative LLM prompt context.

Core Breakthrough

A lightweight retrieval evaluator that classifies retrieval quality into Correct, Ambiguous, or Incorrect, triggering automated web search fallbacks or document strip-refinement.

Engineering Takeaways
  • Integrating a dedicated grading step in LangGraph checkpointers prevents garbage-in/garbage-out across noisy enterprise corpora.
  • Dynamic fallback to web search when retrieval confidence is low dramatically reduces hallucination rates at low cost.

All whitepapers have been independently read, annotated, and leveraged to solve practical engineering challenges.

Academic

Education & Certifications

Institutional foundation from IIT Bhubaneswar, backed by verified technical certifications.

Academic Background

Undergraduate · IIT

Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ) Bhubaneswar

Integrated B.Tech — Mechanical System Design Engineering

Odisha, Bhubaneswar, India
8.3 / 10.0CGPA
5-Year Integrated Programme

Senior Secondary · Grade 12

Ascent Junior College

Senior Secondary ( Grade 12 ) — Science ( PCM )

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
9.82 / 10.0CGPA

Secondary School · Grade 10

Jeevan Jyothi Convent ( ICSE ) School

Secondary School ( Grade 10 )

Koraput, Odisha, India
93.2%Score
Verified Certifications & Training

Rest API (Intermediate)

HackerRank·
Server-Side Query FilteringAsynchronous Request HandlingDynamic API PaginationNetwork Connection Pooling
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System Design (Grokking the System Design Interview)

DesignGurus·
System DesignDistributed SystemsDatabase ShardingMicroservices & EDA
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System Design From Basics to Cracking Interviews

Udemy·
Protocols & API CommunicationCachingMessage QueuesArchitectural PatternsCase studies
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SQL (Intermediate)

HackerRank·
Complex JoinsWindow FunctionsCTEsQuery Optimization
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Advanced SQL Querying Techniques

Udemy·
DB DesignMulti-Table JOINSIndex OptimizationQuery Tuning
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Algorithms & Competitive Programming

Accredited Training·
Advanced AlgorithmsGraph TheoryDynamic Programming
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The React.js Guide

Accredited Training·
React EssentialsCustom HooksState ManagementComponent Architecture
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The React Native Guide

Accredited Training·
Layouts and StylingPush NotificationsNavigation and State Management
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SQL Certification

Accredited Training·
DB Schema DesignData ModelingNormalizationCRUD Operations
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Java In-Depth

Accredited Training·
JavaOOPMultithreadingJVM Internals
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Deep Learning

Accredited Training·
Neural NetworksPyTorchCNNTransformers
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Machine Learning

Accredited Training·
ML AlgorithmsScikit-learnXGBoostFeature Engineering
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