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├── location : hell i guess
├── degree : B.Tech CSE @ CMR Technical Campus (CGPA: 8.52)
├── status : 2nd year undergrad | Expected 2028
├── portfolio : https://harshith-padakanti.vercel.app
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├── building : GSSoC 2026 | NSoC 2026 (20+ PRs) | SSoC 2026
│ LeetCode Discord Reporter — live | zero maintenance
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├── grinding : LeetCode | CodeChef | Codeforces | SmartInterviews
│ daily. consistency over everything.
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└── open to : Backend Internships | OSS | Interesting problemsBackend dev. Hyderabad. 2nd year. I write code that works, ships, and doesn't need me to explain it.
Node.js | Socket.IO | Java | real-time systems | DSA daily.
Looking for backend internships. Summer/Fall 2026.
3 PRs contributed to develop via batch PR #39853 with 10 contributors. Reviewed and consolidated by Gazzo, a Rocket.Chat engineer.
- #39455 — fixed timestamp parsing inside formatted text
- #39737 — test coverage for
isNodeOfTypeguard - #39733 — emoji parsing behavior tests in
reducePlainTexts
Bugs fixed, features shipped, PRs in review. Different repos, different problems, same process.
GSoC Org Finder — verified and corrected mentor contact info for GSoC orgs (preCICE, PEcAn, Pharo, OWASP, Oppia, OSGeo, PostgreSQL and more in review) #544 | #549 | #649
Reframe — memory leak fix on export failure | CDN performance hints for FFmpeg #310 | #311
Cara — banner button text visibility fix #255
Eventra — localStorage draft persistence for event forms | toast positioning fix #1256 | #1194
Bug fixes across frontend and backend.
UI issues, rendering bugs, light mode support, menu behavior, search visibility.
API work — pagination, response envelope standardization, documentation.
Feature additions — URL state encoding for bookmarkable views, localStorage form draft persistence.
Backend logic fixes — workflow skip conditions, ATS optimization, resume parsing, AI gap analyzer inputs.
Covered multiple codebases in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python.
| Project | Description | Stack | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Chat App | Real-time rooms, password-protected, typing indicators, 100-user cap | Node.js Express Socket.IO | Live |
| LeetCode Grind Tracker | Full-stack tracker with Python sync pipeline, MySQL views, PHP API, and dashboard analytics | Python PHP MySQL JavaScript | Code |
| LeetCode Discord Reporter | Fetches accepted submissions daily, posts to Discord at 10:15 PM IST automatically | GitHub Actions cron-job.org | Code |
| Project | Description | Stack | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Media Follower System | Graph-based: follow/unfollow, mutual suggestions | C DSA | Code |
| Eclipse Attendance | QR-based, teacher/student dashboards, CSV export, fully browser-side | HTML CSS JS | Code |
| Smart Dustbin | IR sensor + servo motor automation | Arduino C++ IoT | — |
| Web Scraper | Data extraction in Java + Python using Jsoup + BeautifulSoup | Java Python | Code |
Languages
Backend
Tools & DevOps
- REST APIs | WebSockets | Real-Time Communication
- Data Structures | Problem Solving
- OOP | Backend Development
- CI/CD | Automation | Testing
- Open Source | Competitive Programming
- 🏆 Selected for SIH 2025 | Technovanza 5.0 Internal Hackathon
- 🔧 IoT Bootcamp | Sansa Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
- 📜 C Programming Certification | Spoken Tutorial by IIT Bombay
open to backend internships. open to interesting problems. not open to small talk.
profile views don't matter. projects do.