Vivek

Neeralagi

CS undergrad interested in Cloud Engineering, Full-Stack Development, and NLP.

About

I'm a Computer Science undergrad at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangaluru — interested in Cloud Engineering, Full-Stack Development, and Natural Language Processing.

I work across the full stack — designing cloud-native architectures on AWS, building backend services with Node.js, crafting frontends with React and Astro, and training NLP models with PyTorch and Hugging Face.

As Design Lead of the Sahyadri Open Source Community (SOSC), I drive UI/UX design and front-end implementation for community platforms, event branding, and reusable component systems — impacting 200+ students.

I contribute to open source, write technical articles on Medium, and attend FOSS conferences — having attended IndiaFOSS 2025, MangaloreFOSS 2026, and the Singularity University Summit.

Education

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering

Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management

2023 — Present • CGPA: 8.79 • Mangaluru, India

Skills

Languages

Python JavaScript TypeScript Java C# SQL

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM) AWS Cognito & Lambda Docker Nginx GitHub Actions (CI/CD)

Frontend

React Next.js Astro Tailwind CSS

Backend

Node.js Express REST APIs

ML / NLP

PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers Tesseract OCR OpenCV

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL

Design & Tools

Git Figma Blender

Experience

2024 — Present

Design Lead

Sahyadri Open Source Community (SOSC)

Lead UI/UX design and front-end implementation for SOSC's community platforms and events. Build responsive, accessible interfaces and reusable component systems. Drive visual identity and event branding for workshops and open-source drives impacting 200+ students. Collaborate on Git-based open-source workflows including branching strategies, pull requests, and structured code reviews.

Open Source

Hoppscotch

JavaScript • TypeScript • CLI

Fixed a JSON large-integer round-off bug affecting both the web app and CLI client. Wrote comprehensive test suites to cover edge cases across serialisation boundaries. Received a commendation at FOSS Hack 2026.

FOSS Hack 2026 Commendation

Selected Works

DormDesk

AWS • Node.js • React • Docker • Nginx

Cloud-native facility management and accountability platform for student dormitories. Built on AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, Cognito, Lambda) with a containerised Node.js/React stack behind Nginx, featuring real-time request tracking and role-based access control.

Conversational AI — Tulu Language

Python • PyTorch • mT5 • Hugging Face

Fine-tuned a Google mT5 multilingual transformer for English → Tulu translation to aid language revitalization. Built preprocessing pipelines including tokenization, normalization, and dataset structuring for this critically low-resource Dravidian language.

Redactly

Python • OCR • NLP

Automated PII redaction system for healthcare documents using Tesseract OCR, NLP-based entity detection, and intelligent bounding-box positioning. Designed for compliance-focused environments to minimise sensitive data exposure.

OpenMeter

C# • .NET • Windows Forms

Lightweight real-time network monitoring utility for Windows. Provides live bandwidth usage, per-process traffic visibility, and system resource telemetry with a clean native UI, zero third-party dependencies, and minimal footprint.

Writing

Medium 1,900+ impressions

How to Bypass Your Network Firewall When VPN Gets Blocked

Shadowsocks + VPS

2025

View All Articles on Medium

PYTHON • REACT • AWS • NODE.JS • TYPESCRIPT • PYTORCH • DOCKER • NLP • PYTHON • REACT • AWS • NODE.JS • TYPESCRIPT • PYTORCH • DOCKER • NLP •

Let's Talk

Got a project in mind, want to collaborate, or just want to say hi? Drop me a message.

Say Hello

neeralagivivek@gmail.com