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00OPERATING PRINCIPLE

PROBLEMS AREJUST SYSTEMSHIDING THEIRHANDLES.

Hi, I'm Samrudh. Im a person who makes his imagination come true

What would you imagine if reality had no veto?

01MY WORK

THINGSI BUILT.

These are some of the things I built.

Distributed Trading Fleet

RETIRED

Multiple ACCOUNTSONE NERVOUSSYSTEM

A highly fast orchestrator recieves signal from TradingView, Calculates all metrics and passes along instructions to all the worker servers via redis pub/sub resulting in immediate order execution across hundreds of accounts.

In reality

₹5L per user across 15+ accounts. Distributing the webhooks via Redis took 2 weeks. Handling broker token expiry, 2FA refresh loops, and rate limits at the 09:15 AM opening bell took two months. I shutted it down when regulation became the primary bottleneck.

DISPATCH10 live accounts
QUEUERedis sub-ms
OUTCOMEClean sunset
WORKSHOP CASE STUDY

Portable Developer Cloud

OPEN REPO

YOUR WORKSPACEIS NOT YOURLAPTOP.

LetMeCook is a containerized developer environment that follows you anywhere: VS Code in the browser, encrypted tunneling, persistent job queues, state backups, and a single command to wake up the whole system.

WHY IT WAS BUILT

Built out of frustration with restrictive college lab machines, broken Python paths on borrowed laptops, and spotty hotel Wi-Fi. Whether you can ship code tonight should never depend on which physical machine you remembered to pack.

PORTABILITYAny browser
COREDocker runtime
ACCESSZero lock-in
OPEN GITHUB REPOSITORY ↗

Open-Source Problem Engine

LIVE

PRACTICE ONPROBLEMS THATSHIPPED.

PRactice turns merged GitHub pull requests into structured, graded coding challenges. It crawls open-source repositories, extracts real problem context, and tests user submissions against actual merged patches. I won a hackathon with this one

THE CORE THESIS

Toy coding puzzles teach algorithms in a vacuum. Real engineering is reading 5,000 lines of unfamiliar legacy code, isolating a subtle race condition, and writing a patch that doesn’t break downstream tests.

DATASETMerged OSS PRs
GRADINGDeterministic
PHILOSOPHYReal software
EXPLORE PRACTICE.ROCKS ↗

Serenade / Amore Connected Lamp

BUILT END TO END

TOUCH.GLOW.HEARTBEAT.

Amore is an ESP32-based Wi-Fi and BLE lamp with a touch sensitive top, vibration feedback, and a WS2818B LED strip. The hand made Serenade’s in-app control centre mirrors the lamp’s live state and manages modes, schedules, touch actions, and connectivity.

THE WHOLE STACK, FROM SCRATCH

I wrote the entire firmware and control app from scratch. MQTT handles remote communication while BLE takes over nearby control and onboarding. On first boot or lost Wi-Fi, Amore exposes a five-minute captive portal; a 30-second touch or the app can re-enter provisioning. It runs 50+ scenes, sunrise and moonrise schedules, and lets a partner send their heartbeat straight to the lamp. This was a gift app + lamp

LIGHT ENGINE50+ modes
CONNECTIONWi-Fi + BLE
OWNERSHIPFirmware + app
WORKSHOP CASE STUDY
02WHAT ELSE IS RUNNING

THE RESTOF THE PILE.

I was too lazy to make these into a card

  1. 01ARCPersonal OSLogs across work, study, and personal quests. A digital wardrobe that generates outfits. A study screen that gets noticeably more serious the closer exams get.DAILY DRIVER
  2. 02IRISAgentIntelligent Reasoning and Support System. Briefs me on the day in the morning, then handles the boring parts when I do not want to.IN BUILD
  3. 03SortMyFundsFinancial OSTransactions, investments, and the rest of a money life in one product. Deliberately not another expense tracker.IN BUILD
  4. 04Market IntelGTM AutomationA zero-ad-spend research pipeline that crawls target verticals, maps technical stacks and business pain points, then compiles structured briefing dossiers for contextual outreach.ACTIVE PIPELINE
  5. 05Campus SceneCampus OSTicketing, registration, certificate generation, merch, and hackathon ops for college clubs. Replaced five disconnected tools with one clean portal.SHIPPED
  6. 06VM DashboardDev ToolingOne-click SSH in the browser with WebSocket terminals, allowlists, audit logs, and automatic VM import. Built because cloud consoles waste time on purpose.INTERNAL
  7. 07CultFit BookerAutomationBoxing classes kept filling up instantly. Read the app traffic, reverse-engineered the auth flow, and automated the booking while I was asleep.ITCH SCRATCHED
  8. 08Strategy BuilderTradingBlock-based strategy construction, indicators, backtesting, payoff visualization, and signal-to-trade execution across Indian markets and Forex.RETIRED
  9. 09Stocks MonitorTradingReal-time Indian market data with live news alerts and notifications.OPEN REPO
  10. 10Tourney24Freelance / Tournament OSFreelance work where I built major modules for tournament discovery, registration, fixtures, seeding, live scoring, payments, and scheduling using Spring Boot and Redis.MAJOR MODULES
  11. 11Arduino YearsRoboticsNodeMCU, robots, home automation. Where the habit started, and still the most satisfying kind of build because you get to watch the thing move.WHERE IT STARTED
03THE LAB / ALWAYS OPEN

I TAKE THINGSAPART.THEN MAKE THEMUSEFUL.

Currently curious about Social Media Content Creation

Usually found At the gym or... out on a bike? soldering something? learning video editing or cooking something unnecessarily complicated at 1 AM I never know

04UNPOLISHED BIO

STUDENTON PAPER.BUILDERIN PRACTICE.

I study AI & ML and reside in Bangalore. I learn by creating before I feel ready, then sticking with them long enough to discover what the tutorials forgot to teach me.

It all started with a summer camp back when I was 8 years old. Arduino boards, sensors, lego motors, robots, which is still the most satisfying kind of build because you get to watch the thing move. Since then: trading infrastructure, iOS apps, portable dev clouds, backends, growth pipelines. The common thread is simple: why do something twice by hand when you can build the machine once?

Curiosity is expensive
I keep paying anyway

For the record: Tony Stark was the childhood inspiration. I know how that sounds. But the robots, the AI assistant, and the compulsion to build every layer from scratch had already given it away.

05OPEN CHANNEL

Have a difficult thing worth making?

LET'S MAKEIT MOVE.

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