ARYAN KYATHAM

6 Hackathons, 6 Wins - A god-level winning streak.🔥🏆
How does it feel to win six hackathons back to back?😎

Hey guys, we won the international-level SunHacks hackathon at Sandip University, Nashik.
We built a one-stop platform for hiring top talent. I’ll be sharing the video link soon. Builders: Sharvin Gavad Chhand Chaughule Slayde Sequeira

We were in a difficult situation as we had to submit our Google Gen AI prototype as well as build for this hackathon, but we still managed to win!

What a cool view Sandip University has! I really enjoyed the vibes. Also, traveling from Mumbai to Nashik was a real change of vibe. Looking forward to hackathons outside of Mumbai.

I share my process, insights, and learnings on how I go about building tech here: aryankyatham.substack.com.

We won the Google international-level hackathon! 🏆

In this hackathon, teams from all over the world and different states of India competed. My team, consisting of Sharvin Gavad, Myron Dabreo & Neston Cabral did a fantastic job. 🔥

Problem Statement: Smart Inventory System for Farmers

Tech Stack :
• Webapp: Django
• Database : PostgreSQL
• Hosting : Ngrok
• LLM: Gemini AI
• OpenCV, YOLO V8
• Unity: Augmented Reality
• Twilio: Real-time updates and SMS

Special thanks to our Principal Dr. Surendra Rathod,Sachin Teke,Anand Chitre for motivating us, and to my anna Vivek Rajalingam for always being by my side :D.

I’ll be sharing a video on what we built and how we built it soon. 😉

I share my process, insights, and learnings on how I go about building Tech here :
aryankyatham.substack.com.

Meanwhile, if you have any questions or queries, just shoot me a DM!

How I Cracked the ₹75,000/Month SWE Intern Role at BrowserStack

BrowserStack offers a mind-blowing stipend of ₹75,000/month!

BrowserStack provides end-to-end testing infrastructure to test your websites/applications on real devices. It is used by Amazon, Tesla and other big techs.

Round 1: Aptitude round
- High-quality questions majorly focussed on CS fundamentals (DBMS, OS, CN)
- It was quite hard to get through - out of 200 students, only 5% of the candidates were shortlisted.

Round 2: Machine coding round + resume shortlisting
- I was asked to build a popular linux command in less than 1 hr
- ps: you could use google, GPT. (how you explain the code and approach used matters)
- I built it using a flask server + websockets and html/js for frontend
- I was grilled on the approaches, methods, code and libraries I used. 
- I cleared machine coding round and also my resume got shortlisted for the next round
- Machine coding round was taken by senior software engineers THE OGS -- Sanket Dalvi and Sagar Ganiga 🔥

here's what i am building now! https://lnkd.in/gQfHasEF

Resume shortlisting:
- My resume included a lot of real world work and my experience working and multiple startups and raising funding
- 8x hackathon wins at big tech companies and live link deployed projects

ps: comment yoo! and send a connection request if you want my resume template.

Round 3: Interview with Director of Engineering (Raunak Pilani)
- Tbh it was more like an awesome tech discussion/brainstorming rather than typical stressed panic interview.
- It majorly revolved around my projects/things i built at startups and tech stack related to it.
- Eg: i had deployed a web application by configuring EC2 instance manually and another one using elastic beanstalk so we discussed the differences pros and cons etc
- Eg: if tomorrow your web application gets flooded w 100k users then how would you configure your aws RDS postgresql instances and what changes would you do
- system design and architecture
- how will you process and do the word counting of a 100gb file

- I mentioned Route 53 and was then asked how to port http to https on aws what happens in the backend when you hit a url etc.

Prep strategy:
1. Go to glassdoor to search for previously asked interview, coding, and aptitude questions
2. Focus on real world projects and in depth knowledge of tech stack you use
3. Get your CS fundamentals crystal clear
4. Cracking an interview is not 100% technical knowledge its how easily you explain your thoughts and work to the other guy
5. Focus on pitching/communication, explanation of your projects and how you represent yourself
6. Working with startups is a plus

Feel free to DM, comment your doubts - happy to answer them all :)