Rushikesh Gaonkar, full-stack developer and AI engineer
Full-stack developer and AI engineer in Goa, India. I build LLM applications, real-time systems and the interfaces people use them through.
Email me8× first place in hackathons and UI sprints. Latest: 1st at Hacksploit (CTF + Hackathon), .
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8 projects from the last two years: LLM tooling and agents, on-device AI, real-time systems, and interfaces that won competitions.
Bot Volley
Write a bot in the browser, then watch it play a live 3D volleyball match against AI or ranked opponents. A deterministic physics engine, sandboxed bot code and real-time state on Convex.
2026 · Next.js, React, TypeScript, Three.js, React Three Fiber
CutFrame
A non-linear video editor with no framework and no build step: multi-track timeline, canvas compositing and export, with AI captions, background removal, voiceover and smart crop running locally in WebAssembly.
2026 · JavaScript, Canvas API, WebAssembly, Transformers.js, MediaPipe
RIFT DevOps Agent
A multi-agent pipeline that prepares a repository, analyses failures, writes fixes with Gemini and opens a pull request, with every step streamed live to a dashboard.
2026 · Python, FastAPI, Socket.IO, Gemini, Docker
Gati Drishti
A railway ETA platform that forecasts arrival times from movement, history and network conditions, with a corridor simulation, historical analysis, an API sandbox and four languages.
2026 · Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Turso (libSQL)
nomnom
A restaurant platform that connects a Flutter ordering app with a real-time kitchen display system: QR table ordering, billing, loyalty points and a cooking queue sorted by preparation time.
2025 · Flutter, Dart, Next.js, TypeScript, Turso (libSQL)
Deepfake Forensics
The AI side of a forensic tool built for the Goa Police Hackathon: a fine-tuned video model for frame-level deepfake detection and an audio model for synthetic and cloned speech.
2025 · Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Librosa
Exportrix
An export platform for MSMEs that brings paperwork, regulations, freight and market research together. First place at the Intern Spirit Hackathon.
1st place, Intern Spirit Hackathon
2025 · Next.js, React, TypeScript, MongoDB, OpenAI API
Amul 2.0 and Canon
Brand-site redesigns for Amul and Canon made for Sheryians' Reimagine Frontend competition, built with 3D, physics and scroll animation. Our team placed in the national top 100.
Top 100 nationally, Reimagine Frontend (national competition)
2024 · Next.js, React, Three.js, React Three Fiber, Framer Motion
More on GitHub
All repositories on GitHub (opens in a new tab)GameZone · 2025
Game-zone website that took 1st at Web Wizard, PCCE.
Live site: GameZone (opens in a new tab)HHG RAG Pipeline · 2026
Voice RAG for Hindi audio questions: Sarvam transcription, Turso vectors, Groq answers.
Source: HHG RAG Pipeline (opens in a new tab)Cats vs Dogs, three ways · 2026
Decision tree, KNN and K-means (on ResNet50 features) compared side by side.
Live demo: Cats vs Dogs, three ways (opens in a new tab)Mood playlist · 2024
Reads your expression from the webcam with TensorFlow and builds a Spotify playlist to match.
Source: Mood playlist (opens in a new tab)Clic · 2024
Installable photo-sharing PWA with posts, follows, likes and comments.
Live site: Clic (opens in a new tab)Local Pulse · 2024
Front end connecting residents with nearby shops, services and food.
Live site: Local Pulse (opens in a new tab)
Wins and recognition
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11 podiums from 12 competitions since Apr 2024: hackathons, a CTF and timed UI design sprints, plus a top-100 finish nationally.
2026, 3 results
| Place | Competition | Host | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Hacksploit (CTF + Hackathon)NIT Goa · | NIT Goa | |
| 1st place | Techfluence HackathonIT Department, Goa College of Engineering · | IT Department, Goa College of Engineering | |
| 1st place | Tekfest 2.0 UIDon Bosco College of Engineering · A complete interface designed in Figma in three hours, with no templates and no AI. | Don Bosco College of Engineering |
2025, 7 results
| Place | Competition | Host | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Web Wizard HackathonPadre Conceição College of Engineering · Topic drawn by lot: a game-zone website, built while the campus firewall blocked every gaming site.GameZone live site (opens in a new tab) | Padre Conceição College of Engineering | |
| 1st place | Technomorph UI ConceptionDon Bosco College of Engineering · An espionage dashboard for agent tracking and threat monitoring, designed in three and a half hours. | Don Bosco College of Engineering | |
| 2nd place | Techyothon HackathonPadre Conceição College of Engineering · 24 hours: a carpooling app with commute groups, ID verification and dynamic pricing. | Padre Conceição College of Engineering | |
| 1st place | Retrothon HackathonGoa College of Engineering · | Goa College of Engineering | |
| 1st place | Intern Spirit Hackathon: Exportrix case study | — | |
| 2nd place | PixelPlay UI CompetitionPadre Conceição College of Engineering · | Padre Conceição College of Engineering | |
| 1st place | Infofest UI HackathonGoa Business College · | Goa Business College |
2024, 2 results
| Place | Competition | Host | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd place | HackathonNIT Goa · Mars Planner: trip planning for Mars using NASA and SpaceX APIs, with hazard warnings for launch dates. | NIT Goa | |
| Top 100 | Reimagine Frontend (national competition): Amul 2.0 and Canon case studySheryians Coding School · | Sheryians Coding School |
Experience
Aug 2026 – Sep 2026
Software Intern, Spintly
Built an AI support assistant that answers product questions from the documentation and operational questions from the database, through one chat box.
- Implemented a multi-mode router that decides whether a message needs a documentation lookup, a predefined analytics function, a generated SQL query or plain conversation.
- Grounded documentation answers with RAG over help-centre articles, using local all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embeddings and 384-dimensional vector search.
- Put every model-written query through checks before it runs: SELECT-only, a keyword denylist, pattern checks, a table allowlist and a row limit.
- Returned analytics as structured data and chart configurations, so questions in plain language come back as tables and charts.
- Also worked on RelGov, a release-governance platform with eight roles and a seven-stage approval pipeline.
Next.js, TypeScript, Groq, Transformers.js, Turso, Recharts
Aug 2025 – Jul 2027
Projects Coordinator, GEC AI Innovation Club and GEC Coders' Club
Leading technical projects across two student clubs at Goa College of Engineering.
- Architected a full-stack platform for ARM Robotics that handles registrations, fee collection and event archives.
- Built the Coders' Club website and the event systems for Technix and Happenings, moving registration online.
- Co-organised the Coders' Club Hackathon 2025 and guided teams through it.
Jun 2024 – Dec 2024
Developer Intern, Frover
Frontend architecture for client software and the company's own website.
- Developed responsive frontends for client-facing software and led the build of Frover's animated corporate website.
- Worked across frontend and backend integration to improve data flow and the overall user experience.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering
Goa College of Engineering, Farmagudi (Goa University), 2023 – 2027
Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Databases, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Discrete Mathematics.
- NPTEL, Understanding Incubation and Entrepreneurship (IIT Bombay): 96%
- Student mentor, InternSpirit Industry Cohort 1.0 at FiiRE Goa
About
I like the unglamorous parts that make an LLM feature something you can rely on.
I’m Rushikesh, Rushi to most people, a Computer Engineering student at Goa College of Engineering in Goa. Most of what I know I learned by shipping: internships at Spintly and Frover, platforms for my college clubs, and a lot of hackathons, some with the topic drawn by lot and the deadline the next morning.
At Spintly I found that most AI engineering happens around the model: routing a question to the right tool, checking the SQL a model writes before it runs, caching, streaming and deployment. That is the work I want to keep doing, where AI and full-stack engineering meet.
I’m also the person who opens dev tools when a button is disabled. Once that turned up a flaw in a results portal, which I reported to the Goa board rather than poke at. A disabled button is a suggestion, not a security control.
Skills
- AI and ML
- RAG, LLM applications, AI agents, Computer vision, PyTorch, TensorFlow
- Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C++, Java, SQL
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Flutter
- Backend and data
- Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Turso, Redis
- Tools
- Git, Docker, Postman, Vercel, Azure
Wanna work with me?
Say hi!
Hiring for AI or full-stack work, or putting a hackathon team together? Email is the quickest way to reach me.