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Experience

AI Intern at Panjab University (May 2025 - July 2025) — I worked on designing and developing a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based chatbot tailored for a university environment. The chatbot was built to assist prospective and current students by providing accurate, context-aware responses to queries related to admissions, courses, eligibility criteria, deadlines, and campus information.
Open Source Contributor at Braidpool (Dec 2025 - Feb 2026) — I actively contributed to improving the system’s RPC infrastructure and developer tooling. I implemented and contributed to Pull Requests #405 and #333, focusing on enhancing JSON-RPC functionality and CLI usability for interacting with the mining pool.

Projects

Fake-email — a web-based temporary email service that allows users to generate disposable email addresses for receiving emails instantly without registration (tags: Rust,Typescript,aws,Next.js) GitHub Live
Terminal Color — A lightweight terminal styling library for adding colors and formatting to CLI output, making logs and messages more readable and expressive. (tags: Rust) GitHub
Bit Torrent — A BitTorrent client implementation that handles peer-to-peer file sharing, including torrent parsing, peer communication, and efficient chunk-based file downloading. (tags: Rust , Networking) GitHub
Dns resolver — Built a DNS resolver from scratch to understand how domain names are translated into IP addresses using networking fundamentals. (tags: Rust , Networking) GitHub

Open source contributions

Braidpool — Braidpool CLI Implementation (Merged, PR 333). Adds JSON-RPC server for the Braidpool node with endpoints for querying braid data, mining info, peer management, and Bitcoin RPC proxying.
Braidpool — stratum: Use RwLock for connection_mapping to avoid blocking RPC (Merged, PR 405). Wrap connection_mapping in Arc<RwLock<ConnectionMapping>> so that getminerinfo and the Notifier use read locks, preventing Stratum from being blocked when miners are added/removed or when job notifications are sent.
Antiwork — Add: Vercel Deploy Button (Merged, PR 44). First Open Source Contribution

Blog posts

How Disposable Email Works — 2026-05-26 · 5 min read · privacy,email,web,security
Deploying Rust with Nix, GitHub Actions & SCP — 2026-05-26 · 8 min read · rust,nix,devops,ci/cd,github-actions

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Book Of Life: Daily Meditations With Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti (reading) — reminds us that real freedom begins when we observe life without conditioning, judgment, or the constant noise of thought
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch (reading) — Knowledge isn’t fragile—it grows by criticism

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Shivraj
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Systems Explorer / Web Developer

Building at the intersection of distributed systems and beautiful interfaces. Protocols, indexers, web apps. Occasionally writes about Rust and the examined life.

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Shivraj Soni — Systems Engineer & Developer