Hi, I'm Pratyay 
Welcome to my favourite place! I'm a passionate developer innovator majoring in ECE with a minor in CS, striving to build SOTA solutions for challenging problems via intersecting Web & Machine Learning to create amazing stuff that brings positive change in human lives. I love tinkering with electronics, while I primarily work on applied Machine Learning (majorly Computer Vision), Backend (WebDev) & DevOps(Integrations, Microservices & Deployment).
I'm deeply passionate about Web, OSS and tech in general. Moreover, I'm also into System Designing and Reverse Engineering. I define myself as an independant RSE as well as a competitive hackathon aficionado, with more than 50+ wins 
🔭 I’m currently working on my Blog👨💻 CP: Codechef ❯ Hackerrank ❯ LeetCode🌱 I’m currently learning Remix🕺 👨 I’m looking to collaborate on Projects & Hackathons🤔 I’m looking for help with DIP and Statistics💬 Ask me about anything here😄 Pronouns: He/His/Him⚡ Fun fact: I am Competitive Speedcuber🏃 Hobbies: Skectching and playing CSGO🎮 ✈️ I've been to Three countries!📚 Readings (latest) : Ikigai, The Almanack → NR, Psychology of Money, + more!
🟢 I served as Mentor in some of the Org's ⏬
- Google Code-In'19 @Tensorflow
- HackInCodes'20
- Kharagpur Winter of Code (KWoC) 2020 @IITKgp
- NJACK Winter of Code 2020 @IITPatna
- DSC NSEC Winter of Code 2020
- Script Winter of Code (SWOC) 2020
- Hyperedge Winter of Blockchain 2023
| Hackathon | Host | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Hack the North 2020++ | University of Waterloo, CA | Remote |
| SunHacks 2020 | Arizona State University | Remote |
| nwHacks 2021 | UBC Vancouver, CA | Remote |
| Hack the NorthEast 2021 | HTNE | Remote |
| SacHacks 2021 | UC Davis | Remote |
| TartanHacks 2021 | Carnegie Mellon University | Remote |
| SigmaHacks-2.0 2021 | SigmaHacks | Remote |
| SBUHacks 2021 | Stony Brook University | Remote |
| StormHacks 2021 | Simon Fraser University | Remote |
| UofTHacks-X 2023 | University of Toronto | Remote |
| Hack@Brown 2023 | Brown University | Remote |
| McHacks 2023 | McGill University | Remote |
🔴 Organizations that I'm into ⏬
🔵 Hackathons (International + National) that I've Won 🏆 ⏬
| Year | Name of Hackathon | Organizer (Name of International Institution/Organisation) |
Position / Award |
Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Hacktech 2023 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | Grand Prize — Best Hack (Senior Division) | View |
| 2023 | Hack the Hill | University of Ottawa & Carleton University | Best Use of Google Cloud | View |
| 2023 | Hack Around the World 2 | Major League Hacking (MLH) | Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only] | View |
| 2023 | EthForAll 2023 | Devfolio x ETHIndia | Arcana Network Auth Prize | View |
| 2023 | Linode Hackathon 2023 | Linode x DEV | Runner-Up — Smooth Shifters | View |
| 2023 | Hacklytics 2023 | Georgia Tech | Best Healthcare Hack | View |
| 2023 | DeisHacks 2023 | Brandeis University | Hidden Jem Track Prize ($500) | View |
| 2023 | HackED | University of Alberta | Best Use of MongoDB Atlas | View |
| 2022 | Hacky New Year! | Major League Hacking | Most Innovative Hack | View |
| 2022 | Hacky Winterland 2 | Major League Hacking (MLH) | Best Use of Google Cloud | View |
| 2022 | MongoDB Atlas Hackathon 2022 | MongoDB x DEV | Runner-Up — Choose Your Own Adventure | View |
| 2022 | MetroHacks 2022 | MetroHacks — ASR-X | 1st Place (Best Overall) - Education Track (18+, Advanced Category) ; Most Creative Use of Twilio | View |
| 2022 | Impractical Hackers 2 | Major League Hacking (MLH) | Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only] | View |
| 2022 | PeddieHacks | Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey | Passion Prize by 1517 & Education College Prize | View |
| 2022 | KYH Hackathon | KatyYouthHacks | Best Overall Winner | View |
| 2022 | Impact Hacks | Irvington High School Data Science Club | Judge's Choice | View |
| 2022 | GryphHacks | University of Guelph | Second Place Overall ; Best CI/CD Application Using CircleCI ; Best use of CockroachDB | View |
| 2022 | RU Hacks | Ryerson University | Best Application of DCP API 1st Place ; Best Use of Google Cloud ; Mini Win: Most Engaging Demo Video | View |
| 2022 | SD Hacks | UC San Diego | First Place ($1000) - MageAI challenge (Tied) | View |
| 2022 | HackPrinceton Spring'22 | Princeton University | Most Creative Use of Twilio | View |
| 2022 | Faber Web3 Hackathon | Faber Inc. | Third Best Overall ; Across the Line Award | View |
| 2022 | Hacktech | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | Best ML/AI Hack & Passion Prize by 1517 | View |
| 2022 | HackNYU | New York University | Best Overall — Track: Inclusion | View |
| 2021 | Kent Hack Enough | Kent State University | Best Use of Google Cloud, Best International Hack (Tied) | View |
| 2021 | MetroHacks | ACP x Tsinghua University | Best Overall | View |
| 2021 | HackUMBC | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Best Financial Hack — Capital One | View |
| 2021 | VolHacks V | University of Tennessee | Jina AI - Best Hack Using Jina AI | View |
| 2021 | Cal Hacks 8.0 | UC Berkeley | BlackRock Challenge - Financial Wellbeing (Best Overall) ; The @ Company - Mobile Apps Post “The Social Dilemma” (First Place) ; MLH - Best Use of Google Cloud ; The @ Company - Best Use of @ Platform | View |
| 2021 | Pitt Challenge | University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) | Overall 2nd Place (Tied) | View |
| 2021 | MakeUC | University of Cincinnati | [Givaudan] Best Hack for Demystifying Food Experience ; [Tezos] Best Project Using Blockchain — 2nd Place ($2000) | View |
| 2021 | DivHacks | Columbia University | Most Fun or Unique Hack | View |
| 2021 | HyperHacks | HyperHacks Inc. | Top 10 | View |
| 2021 | Backyard Hacks 2.0 | Major League Hacking | Best use of Google Cloud | View |
| 2021 | HopHacks Fall 2021 | Johns Hopkins University, Maryland | Hacking - Runner Up | View |
| 2021 | PennApps XXII | University of Pennsylvania | Top 10 ; Sponsored Route: Best Use of IPFS and/or Filecoin | View |
| 2021 | PeddieHacks | Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey | Judges' Prize | View |
| 2021 | Slam Dunk Hacks | Major League Hacking | First Overall ; Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only] | View |
| 2021 | HackUPC 2021 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Barcelona Tech - UPC | Second Best Overall ; IThinkUPC Challenge (Best Overall) | View |
| 2021 | IBM Healthcare Innovation Challenge | IBM | Second Best Overall (APAC) ; Innovators Award | View |
| 2021 | Hacktech 2021 | Caltech | Runner-Up (Best Overall) | View |
| 2021 | HueHacks | Major League Hacking | Work of Art Hack | View |
| 2021 | HackPSU Spring 2021 | Penn State University | Nittany Ai Alliance — Ai for Good (First Place) ; HackPSU Health and Wellness | View |
| 2021 | Hackthrob | Major League Hacking | Best Hardware Hack presented by Digi-Key | View |
| 2021 | HackBU 2021 | Binghamton University | Best Design (UI) sponsored by RubyApps | View |
| 2021 | uOttaHack 4 | University of Ottawa | 1st Place Overall ; Solace - Best use of PubSub+ (Best Overall) | View |
| 2021 | Hoya Hacks 2021 | Georgetown University | 1st Place Overall | View |
| 2021 | Hack APAC | Major League Hacking | Best use of Google Cloud | View |
| 2021 | Hack Your Portfolio | Major League Hacking | Best Social Good Hack | View |
| 2021 | DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon | DigitalOcean x DEV.to | Runner up | View |
| 2020 | SharkHacks | Major League Hacking | Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only] | View |
| 2020 | Def Hacks — Global 2.0 | Def Hacks Inc. | SecurePDF — Advanced Track Winner | View |
... and 20+ more across Devpost, Devfolio, AngelHack & Other Platforms!
🟡 Fellowships that I've achieved ⏬
- Research Assistant (RA) Intern at IIIT Hyderabad
↳ Worked on Deep Neural Net Acoustic Model for Phoneme Segmentation under Dr. Naresh Manwani - HackIllinois OS Fellow 21 — Remote
↳ Worked on async wrappers ofk8s.io/apiserverunder CNCF - MITACS GRI'21 — Remote // uAlberta
↳ Worked on Mobile Head Motion-Tracking Unit based on RCV designed for specially-abled under Dr. Nilanjan Ray (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, CA) - The Visual Computing & Artificial Intelligence Lab at TUM, 2022 — Remote
TODO :-
⚪ A few Easter Egg's 🥚 ⏬
- Regional Top-10 in Build for Digital India (BFDI), 2020, hosted by MeitY and Google among 51/4756 teams across India!
- Selected as the Top-6 undergraduate for Resarch Week with Google among 3500+ applications across India!
- Solace published our hackathon project — Ambuplus for uOttaHack'21 on their Blog page!
- Project Adoptic got highlighted on the PennState engineering blog!
- The Brandeishoot blog showcased our Project Land of a Thousand Hills Collectibles built at DeisHacks 2023!
- The official blog of Caltech featured Project Upcycle built at Hacktech 2023!
- Project Upcycle got featured on Karmactive!
- As a recipient of the esteemed Dan Kohn Scholarship, I have been awarded a fully funded trip to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, which will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is hosted by the Linux Foundation.
- More dispersed over LinkedIn & others
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- Hardware Resources
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🔮 My Tech Stack 👨💻 ⏬
How I work
My motivations are to stabilize and provide clarity through curiosity. That tends to manifest as creating (hopefully) just enough process. Checklists are my absolute favorite.
Regarding any issues, feel free to drop a mail at — dev@neilblaze.live
