Hi 👋, I'm Arpit Shukla

Full Stack Developer | Real-Time Systems | AI & Backend Engineering

🌐 Portfolio • LinkedIn • Twitter • Codeforces

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🚀 About Me

I'm a Full Stack Developer passionate about building scalable backend systems, real-time applications, and AI-powered products.

I enjoy working close to the core — designing APIs, optimizing performance, managing infra, and solving hard problems.

• 🎓 Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Computer Science — IIIT Gwalior
• 🧠 Strong in MERN stack, WebRTC, GenAI, AWS, Docker
• 🌍 Built production systems used across multiple countries
• ⚙️ Interested in system design, distributed systems, and real-time architecture

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🛠 Tech Stack

💻 Frontend

⚙️ Backend & Infrastructure

🔴 Real-Time & Advanced

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🌱 What I'm Currently Focusing On

• ⚔️ Competitive Programming on Codeforces
  → arpit900shukla

• 🏗 System Design
  Designing scalable systems with focus on:

  • APIs & data modeling
  • Caching, rate limiting, consistency
  • Distributed & real-time systems

• 🤖 AI in Production
  Integrating OpenAI APIs with attention to:

  • Cost optimization
  • Latency & reliability
  • Prompt & system design

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💼 Experience

🧑‍💻 Full Stack Developer — FishyHub

Nov 2024 – Mar 2025

• Built scalable backend infrastructure deployed across 10+ countries
• Migrated databases using Drizzle ORM
• Developed 10+ production APIs
• Integrated Stripe webhooks & optimized Redis caching
  → Improved response and transaction time by 20%
• Implemented Google OAuth, reducing login time by 30%

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🧩 Projects

📍 Loki — Real-Time Location Service

• Live location sharing with room creation & real-time tracking
• Tech: Vercel, Tailwind CSS, Redux, WebSockets
• Designed for collaboration-centric workflows

💬 Real-Time Chat Application

• MERN-based chat platform with real-time messaging
• Group management (up to 100+ members)
• 📈 Improved user retention by 30%

🛍 Faiiy.com — AI-Powered E-Commerce Platform

• AI-driven product recommendations & chatbot
• Built web-scraping agent for intelligent product discovery
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions + AWS (ECR, Lambda)
• 💰 Reduced AI cost to $0.71/day (100 users)
  💸 Reduced AWS cost to $10/month

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🏆 Achievements

• 🥈 Smart India Hackathon 2024 — Semi-Finalist
  Designed caching mechanisms for large-scale map data (Ministry of Environment)

• 🏁 Meesho DICE Challenge — Quarterfinalist

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💬 Ask Me About

• WebRTC & real-time systems
• Backend architecture & APIs
• System design & scalability
• AI integration in production

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⚡ Fun Fact

There are only 10 kinds of people in the world:
those who understand binary — and those who don’t 😄