I'm Diya — a Computer Science undergrad at NIT Surat who builds things people actually use, not just things that demo well.
It started with a Python arcade game about litter pollution that won a national fest and a cash prize, and it's grown into shipping a production café-ordering platform, an agentic AI drug-repurposing tool, and co-authoring an NLP research paper accepted at SemEval-2026. What connects all of it is the same instinct: pick a real problem, build the full stack required to solve it — frontend, backend, and increasingly the AI layer in between — and get it in front of real users, not just a judge's panel.
Right now I'm most interested in the space where agentic AI meets production software — not chatbots bolted onto an app, but systems where an LLM is a genuine part of the architecture: reasoning over structured data, orchestrating multi-step workflows, and making decisions a rules engine couldn't. That's the thread running through my recent work, from an AI-assisted drug-repurposing platform to Gemini-powered ordering flows.
I care about backend design and system architecture as much as I care about what the user sees — a good API and a clean schema are, to me, as much a part of the "product" as the UI is.
class Diya:
def __init__(self):
self.role = "B.Tech CSE @ NIT Surat, 2024–2028"
self.focus = ["Full-Stack Engineering", "Agentic AI Systems", "Backend Architecture"]
self.currently = "Shipping production features + doing competitive programming"
self.publication = "EcoAffectTrack @ SemEval-2026 (ACL Anthology)"
self.mantra = "Ship it, then make it good."| Achievement | Event | Date |
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| 🥈 2nd Place (Top 5 Finalist) | Build the Future Showcase (Google × Scaler) | Jan 2026 |
| 🏆 Winner | Google Winter of Code (GWOC), NIT Surat | Jan 2026 |
| 🏆 Winner | Hackoverflow 9.0, NIT Durgapur | Oct 2025 |
| 🌟 Open Source Contributor (12+ PRs) | Hacktoberfest 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| 🏆 Winner | Learn 2 Build Hackathon | Oct 2024 |
| 🎓 Academic Excellence Recipient | UAE Golden Visa | Dec 2024 |
| 🎮 Best Gaming Hack | Boost Hacks II | Sep 2024 |
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Agentic AI Drug-Repurposing Platform · 🥈 2nd Place, Build the Future Showcase (Google × Scaler) Problem — Finding new therapeutic uses for existing drugs requires manually cross-referencing clinical, patent, and market data — a slow, expert-bottlenecked process. Solution — An agentic platform that orchestrates multi-step Gemini-powered workflows to consolidate clinical, patent, and market datasets into unified research insights, with the reasoning structured via Google AI Studio. Technologies — Key Features
Impact — Finalist (Top 5) at a Google × Scaler national showcase, judged on real technical depth, not just demo polish. |
Full-Stack Ordering Platform · 🏆 Winner, Google Winter of Code (GWOC), NIT Surat Problem — A local café needed a real ordering system — menu browsing, cart, payments, and inventory — not a prototype. Solution — A production MERN application actively used by real customers, with Gemini-powered features and integrated payments. Technologies — Key Features
Impact — Live in production at a real café; won GWOC at NIT Surat. |
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Monochrome Fashion E-Commerce Platform · Finalist, Web Wonders (NIT Surat) Problem — A niche fashion brand needed full e-commerce infrastructure: auth, inventory, admin control, and a differentiated shopping experience. Solution — A full-stack MERN platform with authentication, live stock tracking, dynamic filtering, and a voice-enabled AI recommendation chatbot. Technologies — Key Features
Impact — Finalist at Web Wonders; backend architecture primarily owned end-to-end. |
Environmental Awareness Game · 🏆 1st Place, International Digital Fest · 🏆 Best Gaming Hack, Boost Hacks II Problem — Environmental awareness campaigns rarely engage students directly — most are passive, not interactive. Solution — A 3-level arcade-style Python game teaching pollution awareness through power-ups, scoring, and collision-based gameplay. Technologies — Key Features
Impact — Won 1st Place (AED 2000 prize) at International Digital Fest and Best Gaming Hack at Boost Hacks II. |
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AI-Powered Organizational Memory for Slack Problem — Engineering teams lose the reasoning behind decisions once a Slack thread scrolls away — search finds keywords, not why a call was actually made. Solution — A Slack agent that listens for decision-shaped conversations, uses Gemini to reconstruct the discussion's structure (problem, arguments, alternatives, trade-offs, decision), and turns it into a searchable, replayable Decision Replay and ADR. Technologies — Key Features
Impact — Built as a full end-to-end system spanning a Slack-facing backend, an AI reasoning pipeline, and a React dashboard — architected to solve real organizational knowledge loss, not just a hackathon demo scope. |
EcoAffectTrack at SemEval-2026, Task 2 — A Hierarchical DeBERTa-Transformer Framework with CCC Optimization for Longitudinal Affect Modeling Co-authored transformer-based research on longitudinal affect prediction; accepted for publication in the ACL Anthology Proceedings (July 2026).
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Languages Frontend Backend |
AI / ML
Databases
Developer Tools & Version Control |
Core CS Foundations — Data Structures & Algorithms · Object-Oriented Programming · Database Management Systems · Computer Networks · Computer Organization & Architecture · Discrete Mathematics · Automata & Formal Languages · Information Security
250+ Data Structures & Algorithms problems solved
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🌱 Currently Learning Advanced agentic AI system design and scalable backend architecture patterns |
🚀 Currently Building AI-integrated full-stack products with production-grade backend design |
🏆 Recent Achievements Co-authored SemEval-2026 paper accepted to the ACL Anthology; 2nd Place, Build the Future Showcase |
🎯 2026 Goals Deepen agentic AI system design; land a high-impact software engineering internship |
MITE Solution LLP — Software Development Intern (May 2025 – Jul 2025) Assisted in developing and testing React-based web applications alongside senior developers — working with SQL databases, backend workflows, and feature implementation to deliver client requirements, plus debugging, testing, and documentation.
Rabuste Cafe Platform — Full-Stack Developer (Google Winter of Code) (Jan 2026) Built a production-ready café ordering platform on the MERN stack in a 4-member team for a real client through Google Winter of Code — responsive React.js interfaces, REST APIs with MongoDB schemas for auth, order management, and inventory, plus Firebase Auth, Razorpay, Google Maps API, and Gemini API integrations.
- Organizing Committee Member — TEDx SVNIT (2026)
- Junior Developer — GDSC NIT Surat (2025)
- Executive — ACM NIT Surat, DotSlash Core Team & Hour of AI Volunteer (2025)
- Executive — Nexus, NIT Surat (2025)
- Hacktoberfest 2025 Open Source Contributor — 12+ PRs merged