Software Engineer · Poet · Human

Vaibhav Shukla

"A candle flame in a world of LED"

Vaibhav Shukla

About me

Who I am

Software builder at heart with 9+ years of full-stack and backend experience, starting in school. Final-year B.Tech CSE student building OSS tools and scalable production systems. When not shipping code, I write Urdu poetry, watch cinema, and play football.

(pic location: MKT, Delhi)

Name
Vaibhav Shukla
Based in
Delhi / Bangalore
Degree
B.Tech CSE
Freelance
Available

My Resume

Experience & Education

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Education

2022 – Present

B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering

Amity University Gurugram, Haryana

GPA: 8.59 / 10.0

2021

XII — CBSE Boards

Paramount International School, Dwarka, New Delhi

Physics, Chemistry, Maths · 90%

Experience

Mar 2025 – Oct 2025

Software Engineering Lead

MethodTech, Mumbai

  • Architected and built data-heavy frontend systems rendering 10M+ lines of real-time server data with advanced Redux-based state management and optimized access patterns.
  • Built a pixel-perfect, Figma-matching, metadata-driven UI system supporting complex behaviors like nested dropdowns, graphs, and layout switches from backend schemas.
  • Developed microservices and REST APIs powering financial data pipelines with strong data contracts and automated test coverage.
  • Designed extensible relational database schemas emphasizing data integrity and growth-aligned structure.
  • Implemented scalable scraping systems handling thousands of AMC records with post-processing logic.
  • Set up Docker-based CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and live previews across staging/production.
  • Contributed to technical leadership through interviews, code reviews, and mentoring efforts.

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024

Software Engineer

Allorasoft, Dwarka, New Delhi

  • Built and maintained 3 SPAs in React, improving UX and frontend performance.
  • Dockerized app environments for faster deployment and CI efficiency.
  • Automated biometric punch syncing using CRON scripts with Django backend and pyzk integration.
  • Designed a multi-threaded Attendance Management System with TCP/UDP mocks for simulation.
  • Created a custom JavaScript library that improved frontend load time by 28% (Chrome Lighthouse).
  • Developed a React-like component system using jQuery/Vanilla JS with dynamic CDN and version control.
  • Built REST APIs in Java for attendance and payroll reporting.
  • Developed a server monitoring tool with real-time alerts to reduce SSH-based health checks.

Writings

My Poetries

Trimmed excerpts — read full on Notion

Just Like that

I love you as if my heart has gone wild
I love you like my own child,
I love you like a soldier coming back to his wife,
I love you like that
···
I love you with a heartache, cuts deep to core
For your voice hard to ignore and eyes I adore

Give me one reason to stop

I stand on the edge,
The bus is coming fast.
I could close my eyes
And let it all be past.
But give me one reason to stop
···
These echoes of grief and haunting lullabies.

Don't teach me to love

O, don't teach me to love,
For I'm a master of the art of it
···
"Does love still resonates after we die?"
An oblivious one asks me passing by
"No", I said, "hormones die with the body"

Tu pahli to nahi

Thokaren pahle bhi khayin hain tu pahli to nahi
Jhoothi aas me bita ye pahla saal nahi
Uljhi hi jaa rahi hai ye kahani paheli to nahi
···
Isi baat pe thi vo maine pahli baat kahi

Bas ki nahi

Ye ishq ka maghaz mere bas ki nahi
Ye anjam-e-ishq beshumar itni sasti nahi
···
Meri o nasamajh muh mod ke tu jachti nahi
Teri mafi nahi bas teri khair chahiye

Mere pas aaoge

Jab duniya beswaad lagegi
Jab kiye pe pachhtaoge
Jab pyaar ki bhookh me, roti bhi na paoge
Tab mere pas aaoge
···
Khud ke jazeere me khud ko kayd paoge

Portfolio

My Work

Open source projects — built for real problems

Galedge

Factor models, portfolio optimization, backtesting and live rebalancing on NSE data. 21-factor risk model, CVXPY optimizer, Brinson attribution. Full-stack: Next.js + FastAPI.

Quant Investing Next.js FastAPI

Park

Pause a running process and free its TCP port. Resume later — same PID and memory intact. Like Ctrl+Z but for servers.

CLI Systems

No Respect for Graphic Designers

A brutal satirical tribute to frontend developers — roasting graphic designers, no-code tools, and everyone who confuses aesthetics with usability.

Satire Frontend

Breaking Bad API

Fan-made REST API and themed web playground for the Breaking Bad universe — characters, episodes, quotes, deaths and locations. Built with FastAPI.

FastAPI REST API

Confidant

Environment secrets manager — securely manage and share encrypted env variables across teams and environments.

Security DevOps

YouTube ASCII Player

Play any YouTube video in your terminal as colored ASCII art, with synced audio and full playback controls.

Terminal Python

Meramour

Terminal-based 2D narrative stealth game controlled by WASD and git commands.

Game Terminal

Speechalyze

Diagnoses and analyzes speech defects in patients from mic or audio input — classifying severity from No Defect to Severe using acoustic feature extraction and ML models.

Speech Diagnosis ML Python

MinPaaS

Single-machine, Docker-centric Platform as a Service built to understand how real PaaS systems work under the hood.

Docker PaaS DevOps

"I want to build things that last — software that works, words that resonate, moments that matter."

— Vaibhav Shukla

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