Jaineel Shah

I have worked on many web development projects in these years. I have overcome many different obstacles that were challenging and fun to work on. I know PHP, JS, HTML, Bootstrap, CSS, Python, JAVA, SQL, C, C++.

In Mumbai Hackathon, we decided to make ColorIt – a tool, which, when input with a grayscale image, will output it in color. We completed the project successfully within 24 hours, after much struggle. Although we didn't win, it was gratifying enough to be shortlisted in the top-10 at my very first hackathon. I developed a project named Tab-Overflow - Chrome extension that can be used to manage tabs, to circumvent the issue of shutting and reopening them every day. With Tab-Overflow, one can share or save tabs and open it on any PC. Tabs can be sorted either alphabetically based on title scraped, or clustered according to the similarity of topics. Next, in EthIndia2.0 Hackathon, we developed a novel algorithm to minimize slippage while trading ERC20 tokens. For this, we were awarded the Kyber Networks Bounty of $150 with an honorary mention on their Medium blog. I even received an Internship offer based on this project at "StokTalk". We developed "Text-It-Loud!". This application converts speech to text in real-time. We also conducted a live demo of our app in a school for hearing-impaired students where we got an extremely positive response. They even said that they would use it as a teaching aid. We have written a research paper on it that got accepted in T4E IEEE Conference 2019 and IEEE Xplore. Recently in DotSlash3.0, I explored AR for the first time. We built V-Watch and were ranked 7th out of 50 teams that participated in the event.

Hackathons are the most efficient way to learn as we not only code in time bounded periods but also get to experience the competition in the outside world. In the opensource world, ideas are most important. The best part of hackathons is that there are soo many people with different skill sets and we get to learn a lot just by having a conversion. Also, we can explain our logic and discuss it with other participants, this can lead to some improvement in logic and thus giving a better output. Judges also guide us to make our code more efficient. In the end, it all comes down to hard work and passion. I am still not a pro in this, but I am pretty sure that I have enough passion to work hard on anything if I want to. I am eagerly looking forward to code and learn from others, as well as teach others and help them to be a better coder.