🙏 Namaskar, I'm Manthan Surkar
I am a full-stack developer from Maharashtra, India. I have a passion for space science and yoga, and I'm interested in early-stage startups (or creating them).
I graduated from IIIT-Allahabad in 2022 with a B.Tech in Information Technology. I received a 🥇 gold medal for my final year performance and a 🥈 silver medal for overall performance.
On the technical side, I'm a full-stack developer working at Seezo.io. I am passionate about backend engineering. I've worked with Web3 (as a freelancer) and am currently working with AI (mainly GenAI). A trivia: I have a 7+ hackathon winning streak right now ;).
Leads Infra, does backend engineering, and AI research at Seezo.io.
Worked closely with an amazing engineering team. In the brief time I was there, I reduced risk costs by more than 75%, increased observability on the backend by adding Prometheus metrics and setting up Grafana across 5+ services, and templated the messaging stack for WhatsApp/SMS. Moved on to work in a more early-stage startup.
With an amazing team, increased Auto KYC coverage for Razorpay from 10% to more than 75%. This included using and training ML models for Auto KYC. Later, I worked on the Account Service, which is one of the central services. This involved decomposing a central entity from the monolith and ensuring a smooth transition to this new service, which was designed to handle more than 10k RPS.
Check out my GitHub: thesmallstar
I love open-source ❤️ and maintain the Fineract project for Apache (GSoC 2020, Mentor 2021/2022)!
Other notable contributions include OpenEMR, where I am a member. Additionally, I have a few (very old) contributions to PHPMyAdmin.
This website is also open source (made using GPT-4)! You can find the code and use it for your own website at github.com/thesmallstar/surkar.in.
Few of my latest launches are Prana and Abha.page.
Previously, I have also started three startups: Hosetic, Amusebag, and Hostbins. I was able to sell one of them for a little (very little) money!
Visit my blog at link where I am mainly writing about AI/LLMs.
I used to blog at truetricks.com (2013 school days). I am moving to a new blog at blog.surkar.in and archiving the old one as a memory :D
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