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.
THE NOTEBOOK / WRITING
Built. Learned.
Written down.
Notes from building software, following questions, and occasionally finding a better way to do a very small thing.
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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.
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A different kind of football
From a summer camp at eight to football-playing robots at the Kharagpur Robo Soccer Students’ Group (KRSSG). The work drew me in, but so did the people.
Read my robotics story ↗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.