const vikash = {
    role: "Aspiring Software Engineer",
    location: "India 🇮🇳",

    interests: [
        "Backend Engineering",
        "Full-Stack Development",
        "AI-powered Applications"
    ],

    languages: ["Java", "JavaScript", "Python"],

    currentlyLearning: [
        "Data Structures & Algorithms",
        "System Design",
        "Computer Networks",
        "Operating Systems",
        "DBMS"
    ],

    building: "Production-style software projects",

    goal: "Become an excellent Software Development Engineer 🚀"
};

I'm a Computer Science Engineering student who enjoys understanding how software works behind the scenes — from an HTTP request hitting an API to authentication, databases, caching, testing and deployment.

Instead of only learning technologies, I like to build complete products, break things, debug them and understand why they work.

My current mission: become strong at problem solving + backend engineering + computer science fundamentals.

Languages

Frontend

Backend

Database & Caching

Developer Tools

AI-powered full-stack travel planning platform built to combine traditional backend engineering with Generative AI.

Full Stack · REST APIs · Authentication · AI Integration · Caching · Testing · CI/CD

• 🤖 AI-generated personalized travel itineraries
• 🔐 JWT-based authentication & protected resources
• 👤 User-specific Trip CRUD operations
• 💰 Automated budget analysis
• 🌤️ Weather integration
• 🗺️ Location & map enrichment
• ⚡ Redis caching and rate limiting
• 🛡️ Centralized validation & error handling
• 🧪 API testing using Vitest + Supertest
• 🔄 GitHub Actions CI/CD
• ☁️ Production deployment

Stack

Authentication backend created to understand modern access-token, refresh-token and session architecture.

Backend Architecture · Security · JWT · Redis · MongoDB

• 🔑 JWT access tokens
• 🔄 Refresh token architecture
• 🍪 Cookie-based token handling
• ⚡ Redis-backed sessions
• 🔒 bcrypt password hashing
• 🛡️ Authentication middleware
• ✅ Request validation
• 👤 Protected user routes
• 🚪 Session invalidation

Stack

Full-stack accommodation discovery platform inspired by modern property rental applications.

React · Node.js · MongoDB · Responsive UI · Deployment

• 🏡 Property discovery
• 🔎 Search functionality
• 🗄️ Database-backed listings
• 🖼️ Dynamic property imagery
• 📱 Responsive interface
• ⚙️ Backend APIs
• ☁️ Production deployment

Building strong problem-solving fundamentals using Java.

Topics I'm actively working through:

Arrays & Strings          ████████████████████
Searching & Sorting       ███████████████████░
Hashing                   ███████████████████░
Two Pointers              ██████████████████░░
Sliding Window            █████████████████░░░
Stack & Queue             █████████████████░░░
Trees / BST               ███████████████░░░░░
Graphs                    ███████████░░░░░░░░░
Dynamic Programming       ███████░░░░░░░░░░░░░

                     SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
                            │
         ┌──────────────────┼──────────────────┐
         │                  │                  │
     Backend            Full Stack            AI
         │                  │                  │
    REST APIs             React          AI Integration
 Authentication         Frontend          ML Concepts
   Databases           API Clients       GenAI APIs
     Redis             Deployment
         │
         ▼
 Testing → CI/CD → Scalability → System Design

Things I enjoy learning:

• ⚙️ Backend architecture
• 🌐 REST API design
• 🔐 Authentication & authorization
• 🗄️ Database design
• ⚡ Redis caching
• 🧪 Automated testing
• 🔄 CI/CD
• ☁️ Deployment
• 🏗️ System design
• 🤖 AI integration

public class Vikash {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        while (!dreamJobAchieved()) {

            solveDSA();

            learnComputerScience();

            buildRealProjects();

            understandBackendSystems();

            debugMistakes();

            improveEveryDay();
        }
    }
}

01. Data Structures & Algorithms
02. Backend Engineering
03. DBMS
04. Computer Networks
05. Operating Systems
06. System Design Fundamentals
07. Building production-quality projects

I'm interested in Software Engineering, Backend Development, Full-Stack Development and AI-powered products.

💻 Building today what I couldn't build yesterday.