Saharsh Bhansali
Chennai, TN, India | Phone | Email | LinkedIn | GitHub | Download Resume
WORK EXPERIENCE
Stealth Startup
Freelance | June, 2024 – Present | AWS, Nginx, Docker, Django, PyTest
- Provisioned cloud and security infrastructure. Set up API servers and reverse-proxy for different endpoints.
- Set up a Dockerized, self-hosted Supabase instance, with an externally managed Postgres database on a local docker network. Integrated the API service with the database, Supabase Realtime, and Supabase Auth.
- Created a test suite to unit-test the API using PyTest and Django’s testing framework.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
CLI-TOP
Website | Dec, 2023 - Jan, 2024 | Go, Cobra, Glamor, GitHub Actions
- Unofficial CLI to access the university’s Learning Management System (LMS); used by 400+ students | know more.
- Developed key features – autologin, attendance alert, kill-switch for centralized control, and mark totaling .
- Built a CI/CD pipeline to distribute binaries using GitHub Actions.
- Project manager and maintainer. Coordinated and led a team of 5 developers.
Tally Stock
GitHub | Sept, 2023 - Dec, 2023 | Go, NextJS, Python, Docker
- Experimental inventory management system, to self-learn full stack development.
- Backend: Go, gofiber, and gorm
- Frontend: TypeScript, NextJS, TailwindCSS, MaterialUI, and ShadcnUI. CLI Frontend: Python
- Infrastructure: Docker (local application)
Career Node
GitHub | June, 2023 | OpenAI GPT-3.5 API, TypeScript, Flask
- Integrated the OpenAI GPT-3.5 API for tailored recommendations and curated learning materials.
- Engineered prompts to extract and highlight skills and interests from users’ resumes.
Access Denied
GitHub | Dec, 2022 | Python, JavaScript, Juptyer Notebooks
- Built a decentralized authentication system from scratch (PoC) using Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs).
- Led the team in ideation, researching ZKPs, and translating complex theories into a CLI demonstration.
Self-Taught Tinkerer
System Administraion | Shell Scripting, Chezmoi, GNU Stow, Nix, Ansible
- A development setup and streamlined workflow, with automated configuration management, rapidly deployable on multiple platforms.
Home Labs, CTFs, and Bug Bounties | BurpSuite, Ghidra, Metasploit, JohnTheRipper, Gobuster, Exiftool, ReconDog, VirtualBox, ParrotOS, Kali Linux
- Learning cyber-security through hands-on exercises.
Personal Site | Jekyll, Markdown, GitHub Pages, LaTeX
- A static website to showcase my professional profile and skills.
Obsidian Notes
- A formatting guide for a note-taking app, Obsidian.
EXTRA CURRICULAR
Association for Computing Machinery - Student Chapter
Research Lead | June, 2022 – Present | VIT, Vellore
- Developed questions for the Reverse Coding (RC) contest with 500+ contestants | know more.
- Built CI/CD pipelines for RC using GitHub Actions, Docker, and CMake for multi-platform question binaries.
- Facilitated Cryptic Hunt - a 3-day, annual, campus-wide, hybrid treasure hunt, with 700+ participants.
- Speaker and organiser at CodexCryptum, a cryptography and cybersecurity bootcamp, for 2 years.
- Played key roles in hackathons as a participant, review panel member, and event manager.
- Participated in Capture The Flag competitions, following my passion for research and problem-solving.
The Next Chapter - Literature Club
Co-Secretary | June, 2022 – Feb, 2024 | VIT, Vellore
- Coordinated inter-department communication, and organized conflict resolution and team building initiatives as Co-Secretary.
- Participated in discussions and wrote editorials, organized literary events, and created promotional posts, stories, and digital content, while working with the Editorial, Management, and Design departments.
- Managed the club’s Instagram page.
CERTIFICATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA): Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP): Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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2023 Yantra ”Main Hack” - Education Track Winner (Career Node), VIT - Vellore.
EDUCATION
Vellore Institute of Technology
CGPA - 9.17 | July, 2021 – July, 2025 | Vellore, India
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Information Security
Bhavan’s Rajaji Vidhyashram
Percentage - 96.4% | June, 2019 – June, 2021 | Chennai, India
CBSE - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, English