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• Developed core features for an LLM-powered journalism platform using Next.js, Django, and PostgreSQL, implementing RESTful APIs that handled 10K+ daily requests with under 200ms response time while optimizing database queries to reduce execution time by 40%.
• Engineered responsive UI components with lazy loading and code splitting in Next.js, improving page load times by 40%.
• Built AI-powered content analysis features that processed 500+ articles daily with 92% accuracy.
• Engineered a production-grade, scalable distributed microservice for AI-based resume refinement using the OpenAI API, integrated with Amazon S3 and Docker to support 500+ users with 99.9% system reliability.
• Redesigned legacy HTML pages into a responsive React + Redux frontend with lazy loading, reducing load times by 1.5 seconds.
• Integrated Django REST APIs with database indexing to handle high-volume requests and improve throughput.
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AI chatbot for any documentation. Built in ~36 hours after reverse-engineering Kapa. - scrapes + chunks docs - semantic search + context-aware answers - usable UI, not just a demo → built to understand how real AI products are structured
Job aggregation system across 500+ company career pages. - cron-based scraping infra - normalized job data across sources - full-stack UI to actually browse jobs → built because job search tools are broken
YouTube learning tool that makes content stick. - summaries + quizzes + chat - tracks what you’ve learned - turns passive watching into active recall → built for people who actually want to retain what they watch
OS-like environment inside the browser. - draggable windows - multiple apps - terminal + editor - persistent state → built for fun, but forced me to think like a systems engineer
About
I like building products that feel slightly unreasonable for one person. Most of what I know comes from: - picking things that look hard - building them anyway - figuring things out mid-way I care about: speed, product feel, and making things actually work
Skills
taralshah09's coding journey over the past year
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Contributions
Contributed a new shape to Excalidraw end-to-end, from rendering logic to tool integration, merged into the main repo.
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