Sumit • Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer

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Systems-oriented engineer focused on backend development and infrastructure automation. I daily-drive Arch Linux, maintain self-hosted services, and build tools that solve real problems. Currently mentoring at ITSA while working on projects that span from CLI utilities to scalable web platforms.

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Co-Creator

Bugswriter's Company Pvt Ltd (bugswriter.ai)

Oct 2025 - Jan 2026

Co-Founder

Co-founded the platform delivering intelligent, flexible, secure AI assistant system. Established DevOps pipelines with automated deployments, containerization, CI/CD, and monitoring. Built infrastructure using SvelteKit frontend with FastAPI backend ensuring performance and scalability.

SvelteKit FastAPI Docker CI/CD

Backend & DevOps Engineer

Kumari.AI (US Startup)

Aug 2024 - Sep 2025

Remote • Stanford, California

Designing backend infrastructure for multi-AI model orchestration. Implementing routing logic to select appropriate LLM per request, balancing cost, latency, and quality. Managing CI/CD pipelines, scaling, and integration with external model providers (OpenAI, etc.).

Python FastAPI AWS LLM APIs

DevOps Intern

PeerXP Services Pvt. Ltd

Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

Remote • Bengaluru, Karnataka

Engineered monitoring solutions using Grafana and Prometheus, reducing incident response time from hours to minutes. Optimized Docker containers, automated CI/CD on AWS with GitLab CI, and authored 1000+ self-hosted wiki-style setup guides.

Grafana Prometheus Ansible Terraform

$ ls -la ~/projects

TUISIC

TUI-based music streaming app in C++ with easy vim motions

C++ • FTXUI • libmpv • libcurl

Cyoni AI

AI micro-SaaS tools aggregator

Python • Svelte • FastMCP • FastAPI • GCP

Kumari AI

One Chat Gateway To The AI Universe

Python • React • FastMCP • FastAPI • AWS

ScrollConnect

Web platform connecting colleges and industries

Python • Postgres • APIs • NextJS

FinSight

Hybrid Machine Learning framework for personalized financial investment recommendation.

Python • Flask • AI/ML • RandomForest
GradientBoosting • KMeans • Apriori

ArchInsights

Real-time social media analytics and actionable insights

React • Tailwind • AI/ML • Python
PineconeDB • Apriori • KMeans

SomeWhatKasm

This is an python project that tries to mimic the KASM workspace but very flexible and provides api support.

Python • Docker • SQLite • VNC

StateCraft

Theory of Computation visualizer

React • TypeScript • Cytoscape • Orkes

Thrifty

E-shopping assistant with price alerts

Node.js • Express • MongoDB • Jenkins

TuxTalk

CLI-based WebRTC chat application

WebRTC • Node.js • Terminal UI

$ git log --oneline --all --author="Sumit"

Keyshade

github.com/keyshade-xyz

Refactored forking flow using Prisma; enforced access control and cut multi-user crashes. Enhanced CLI with decryption-failure exit mode, improving automation reliability in scripts. Added real-time search input for filtering integrations by type in the create integrations window.

ffscreencast

github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast

Contributed enhancements to CLI screen recording utility built on ffmpeg; added optional timer for recording duration feedback. Implemented -o flag for custom filenames and added support for configurable output directory via DIR parameter.

RocketChat

github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron

Implemented desktop notification for user logout events. Added logout detection listener that monitors user login state changes. Leveraged existing notification infrastructure and user login monitoring.

$ systemctl status infrastructure

Nextcloud

OpenVPN

Paperless NGX

Postfix

Nginx

Oracle Linux 8 VPS

Hugo Static Sites

Yellow CMS

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Languages

Python • CPP • JavaScript • Bash • SQL

Backend

Flask • FastAPI • Node.js • PostgreSQL • Redis • MongoDB

DevOps

Docker • Docker Compose • Kubernetes • Ansible • Prometheus • Grafana • Nginx • Systemd • Cron • Git

Systems

Arch Linux • Oracle Linux • Void • Gentoo

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"Build tools that work. Host your own services. Understand your stack from the kernel up. Prefer simplicity over complexity, documentation over assumptions, and automation over repetition. The best software is invisible to the user but transparent to the maintainer."

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