Work Experience
Hands-on backend engineering: production APIs, auth systems, and reliability fixes.
Software Development Intern
Dicotr
Aug 2025 — Nov 2025Certificate
- Developed responsive and reusable UI components using Next.js, and Tailwind CSS, improving development speed and maintaining consistent design across the application.
- Built dynamic pages with Next.js App Router, implementing client/server components, routing, and optimized rendering for a seamless user experience.
- Improved application performance by optimizing component rendering, reducing unnecessary re-renders, implementing lazy loading, and following frontend best practices.
- Collaborated with designers and backend engineers in an Agile development environment, participating in Git-based workflows, code reviews, and feature delivery across sprint cycles.
Education
Formal training and academic record.
Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Kota
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Aug 2023 — May 2027
Patna Collegiate School, Bihar
Class XII
85.6%
St. John Residential Public School, Bihar
Class X
94.6%
Achievements & Competitive Programming
Top 10 out of 600+ teams — IEEE Hackathon, IIIT Gwalior (built a distributed real-time system under 24 hours)
700+ problems solved across Codeforces, LeetCode (1685+ rating), and CodeChef (3 star)
Advanced to Round 3 of Flipkart GRiD 8.0, one of India's premier engineering competitions, by excelling in the screening and online assessment rounds.
Let's build something
Open to backend, full-stack, and distributed systems roles or collaborations. Reach out and I'll get back to you.
kumarsaurav1881@gmail.com