Aryan Shukla

CS sophomore at SRMIST. I build tools people actually use — real session auth replacing broken university portals, local LLM inference that runs offline, matrix ops at 40× baseline. Some of it breaks on deployment. Most of it ships and stays shipped.

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project index

A bench of smaller experiments.

Smaller surfaces, shipped experiments, and half-answered questions that might become larger systems later.

01MaxQAn Android music player with visuals computed entirely in shader code.active

02MonosectNative desktop video splitter. Hits Telegram's 2 GB limit on the first try.shipped

03ModusA browser extension that makes AI platforms actually usable.active

04RatifyA CLI that routes commits through a role-tiered approval chain before they land.active

Writing

Thinking out loud.

Apr 10, 2026

Building things that break

Why shipping broken code is better than not shipping at all, and what I learned fixing Arch SRM at 2am.

Mar 22, 2026

Why I like local AI

VOCO runs Qwen3 on a laptop with no API keys. Here's why that matters more than you think.

Feb 14, 2026

What hackathons actually teach

It's not the tech. It's learning to cut scope fast and still ship something real.

hackathons

Short clocks, useful scars.

Event logs instead of a trophy shelf. Some qualified, some collapsed, each one made scope and taste a little sharper.

2026

Barclays Hack-O-Hire 2026

Barclays PIE

Pre-delinquency intervention engine for credit risk — flags at-risk accounts before default using behavioral signals and proposes targeted interventions.

Qualifiedfurtherrounds

2026

Guidewire DevTrails 2026

GigSafe

Gig worker income protection platform with real-time platform outage triggers, zone-based micro-pooling across Chennai, and an Income DNA risk model.

Unfiltered MindsQualifiedfurtherrounds

2026

Ossome Hacks 3.0

SentinelClaw

AI trading guardrail agent with a YAML policy engine and ArmorClaw enforcement layer. Blocks trades that violate policy; demonstrated on a malicious earnings report scenario.

Cyka

2025

DayZero CodeNex 2025

Virtual Try-On

A WebGL-based virtual try-on concept built to make the demo feel alive without pretending the problem was fully solved in 36 hours.

2025

HeisenHack 2025

Revenue Share

A revenue-sharing prototype built under time pressure for an ACM SIGKDD hackathon track, scoped down hard to avoid spending the whole event on dashboard glitter.

2025

Smart India Hackathon 2025

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National-level government hackathon. Competed in the software edition.

contact

Bring a strange brief.

I like useful tools, fast prototypes, ugly production lessons, and projects with enough pressure to become specific.

aryanworks@hotmail.comopen github.com/aryan-astraopen x.com/aryanxastraopen linkedin.com/in/aryanworksopen

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