Adrij Shikhar

From the very beginning of my educational life, I have been a fast learner and was always reading about new technologies coming to the market and in research. Things, like working with bleeding edge technology and making cool stuff out of it, has always enlightened me. My curiosity and enthusiasm for technology have given me an opportunity to be a developer at SDSLabs in IIT Roorkee, which is a small group of students that fosters the growth of software development in our campus.
Being a developer at Cognizance, the Second Largest Tech Fest of India, organized b IIT Roorkee, I also maintain its website.

I am also a member at Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Roorkee, which is a student-run organisation of spirited individuals who are striving to create, foster and promote entrepreneurship among the students of IIT Roorkee. We help the budding entrepreneurs towards their goals through all the necessary resources like mentoring, consultancy and networking with Alumni, Entrepreneurs, Investors.

In my first year at IIT Roorkee, I tried my hands on exploring the various fields of tech to figure out where my passion lies.

Apart from this, I also love the concept of open source and wanted to contribute for the same. It has been a part of me ever since class 9th . I used to play around with open source apps, roms and projects available out there on internet, which lead me to the position of Senior Member at XDA-Developers, an Android Community Forum. I have been trying to contribute in the small ways I could, by having all my projects on GitHub so that others can benefit from the same and trying to fix minor bugs that I can.

While of this now I have experience with C++, Java, ReactJs, PHP, HTML/CSS, MySQL, JavaScript.

I have also worked on Cerebro(cerebro.sdslabs.co), being the most complex project until now. It is a machine learning competitions hosting platform created for the students of IIT Roorkee where they can share the latest news, blogs, links to research papers and their approaches and can also practice or compete along with other students to work on their skills.

I have also taken part in many hackathons held in our campus, like SDS Campus Hackathon.

Hackathons provides a good platform to dive right into the middle of developing a software with the opportunity to work with the core developers. This makes me excited and eager to participate in it.