GSoC: getting in, getting stuck, and building a loan-risk engine
Why I chose Mifos, what helped me get selected, and what I learned building a reactive loan-risk assessment microservice during GSoC 2025.
A LITTLE MECHANICS. A LITTLE MAGIC.
Drop a thought. Watch it travel.
Click to make a ripple. Move to stir the surface.MECHANICAL ENGINEER → SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
A curious mind.
An open notebook.
I’m Abhinav. A mechanical engineer turned software developer, drawn to how things move, work, and fit together.
I build software, find things to automate, and share the questions and lessons along the way.
Find something to readA FEW THINGS ON MY DESKA little curiosity goes a long way
01 / THE SUMMER PASSGetting in. Building it. 02 / THE LAPTOPThings I build 03 / THE LITTLE ROBOTA different kind of football 04 / THE BEAM SKETCHMechanics meets Python 05 / THE SHORTCUT NOTESLess repetition, more possibility 06 / THE BASKETBALLA Nehru jersey. A bronze. 07 / THE MRIDANGAMA different kind of practice
01 · GSoC ↗02 · GitHub ↗03 · Robotics ↗04 · Mechanics ↗05 · Automation · Soon ↗06 · Basketball ↗07 · Mridangam ↗
Pick an object. Read the story.A few things I’ve spent time on.
FROM THE NOTEBOOK
Things worth writing down.
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A bronze medal and a Nehru jersey: GC 2023–24
Playing basketball for Nehru Hall, making the semifinals, and coming away from IIT Kharagpur’s General Championship with bronze.
Somewhere between a free-body diagram and a stack trace
From turning beam problems into Python objects to exploring AI in thermal and fluid sciences.
Robots, football, and a very useful meeting excuse
From a summer camp at eight to football-playing robots at KRSSG—and the people who made me want to be part of it.
My Kannada handwriting peaked at eight.
Learning the Mridangam, taking a break for JEE, and finding my way back during college.
AUTOMATION / COMING SOON
A little effort. A lot less repetition.
Coming soon: the tools and small experiments I use to make repetitive tasks less repetitive.
I’ll write about Arch Linux for productivity, self-hosting my terminal, Raycast, Vicinae, and the custom apps I build to make everyday tasks easier.
Still tinkering. Notes to follow.A FEW THREADS TO FOLLOW