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Sept 5, 2026

Building a Voice RAG System Under a 200ms Latency Budget

Voice → Retrieval → Grounded Answer, with a hard 200ms budget. How I built a fast, robust RAG pipeline for the HH Goa 2026 task.

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Building RECRUIT.AI: A Recruitment Pipeline for Clubs and Small Teams
The architecture and lessons behind RECRUIT.AI: drives, applications, task submissions and recorded interviews in one place, built with Next.js, FastAPI and MongoDB.
Next.js, FastAPI, MongoDB · 8 min read
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Production-Grade REST APIs: Patterns I Learned Building Task Management API
Error handling, input validation, response patterns, and performance optimizations for Express.js APIs serving 50+ requests/minute.
Node.js, Express · 7 min read
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How I Achieved 95+ Lighthouse Scores on My Portfolio
Font loading strategies, image optimization, CSS performance, and the small tweaks that moved my scores from 70s to 95+.
Performance, SEO · 5 min read
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Organizing TECHFORMERS 1.0: Running a 1,800+ Participant Coding Competition
Behind the scenes of designing algorithmic problems, managing real-time hackathon support, and the tools we used to run everything smoothly.
Community, Leadership · 6 min read