Rushang Gajjal

Hey,
I am currently the committee head of KJSCE CodeCell. We conduct workshops regarding competitive programming and development. This has helped me learn a lot of topics in programming and development from developing the hackathon website, facebook chatbot, automation also competitive programming to a great extent.

I have always been amazed with how computers, smartphones ,etc worked. That's what drove me to select Computer Science. I find the thought of how the upcoming technologies can revolutionize the future quite intriguing. I love automating boring and tedious tasks for fun. During my free time, I participate in various online competitive programming contests and also participate in hackathons. I am fascinated by the world of AI with it's applications becoming more efficient day by day. Exploring new technologies and figure out how they work is what I enjoy. Taking up a challenge and coming up with a solution which is feasible and has a great impact and implement that very solution is what I take interest in.

For the last 2 years, I have been programming primarily in Python using tools like Flask, Django, Tensorflow, NoSQL and SQL and explored the world of web development, machine learning, cyber security. There are many web projects that I have worked on individually and along with my teammates Team-Probably; most of these can be found on my GitHub. The past year, I participated in a few hackathons hosted in India and realized they are the best way to learn new technologies, frameworks, hacks, work in teams and collaborate and at the same time come up with ideas and solutions for real world problems. I along with my team mates have been among the winners in a few hackathons too including Smart India Hackathon 2019 where we recieved a special mention. Last year, in the month of december, I had the opportunity to participate in the biggest CTF, Amrita InCTF in India along with my team. We were very new to cybersecurity and CTFs but we worked 24/7, explored a plethora of topics, tools and all this work did pay off. Our team ranked 7th in the qualification rounds among 150+ teams and 2nd in the finals among 30 teams. It was probably the best experience ever.

Recently, I have started exploring about deep learning, distributed and parallel computing systems. I have been working on building a chatbot using the data from my WhatsApp chats so that it could reply just like me and no one would realize it wasn't me. Also, I found WebAssembly very interesting and have been looking into it as well hoping to make something using it.

In this summer, I got an internship in Tvarit GmbH. Finally, I got to opportunity to work in Machine Learning. I learned many concepts, how ML is actuallly implemented in industries, how the data is processed, etc. Being a machine learning, I also worked on Python packages (PyPI), API backends, Devops, AWS automation scripts, docker, etc. It gave me experience in many different fields of computer science.

Hack InOut is one of the best hackathons in India with participants hailing from all around the country and this would be an amazing opportunity for me to interact with people from different cities, backgrounds, skills and being in a room with brilliant like-minded people brainstorming on various ideas would be quite an experience. It would be like an amazing experience for me to get selected for such a hackathon and get an opportunity to showcase my skills on such a huge platform. It won't just be a hackathon I attended but a memory that I would cherish for the rest of my life.

Most of my projects can be found on my GitHub and my Team's GitHub