const JaiShankar = {
location : "India 🇮🇳",
university : "KIIT University — CS",
roles : ["Full Stack Engineer", "PWA Architect", "Open Source Contributor"],
currentBuild : "EduBridge — offline-first EdTech PWA for rural India",
flagship : "AgriBridge AI — precision agriculture meets machine learning",
contributing : "GSSoC '26 (bashmanager ✅ merged, github_tracker ✅ merged, career-pilot 🔄 in review, DevCard 🔄 in review)",
coreStack : ["React 18 + Vite", "Supabase + PostgreSQL", "PWA + Workbox", "Express.js"],
offlineFirst : ["IndexedDB", "Service Workers", "Background Sync", "Cache API"],
aiLayer : ["LangChain", "TensorFlow", "OpenAI API", "RAG pipelines"],
learning : ["GKE + Cloud Build", "LLM fine-tuning", "System Design at scale"],
philosophy : "Ship working software. Iterate with users. Open-source everything useful.",
funFact : "I debug faster at 2AM. The silence helps. ☕",
};
"I don't build features — I build systems that work when infrastructure fails, products that reach users who can't be reached any other way, and open-source tools that make the next developer's life easier."
| Principle | Belief |
|---|---|
| 🔌 Offline First | Real-world users don't have perfect internet. Engineer for that reality. |
| 🚢 Ship → Learn → Improve | A working MVP with real users beats a perfect spec every single time. |
| 🌱 Open Source Always | If it solved your problem, it will solve someone else's. Share it. |
| 🎯 Depth over Breadth | One deeply understood system beats five half-understood stacks. |
| 🤝 Contribute Upstream | The projects you use are built by people like you. Pay it forward. |
The Problem — 250M+ rural students in India have no reliable internet. Mainstream EdTech abandons them entirely. The Solution — EduBridge works where the internet doesn't. Lessons cached offline, gamified XP + streak system, smart background sync on reconnect. Architecture:
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The Problem — Millions of Indian farmers make crop decisions without data, losing yield to causes that data could prevent. The Solution — AgriBridge AI delivers ML-powered crop intelligence directly to farmers: disease detection, yield forecasting, live market prices. Architecture:
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Currently contributing to GirlScript Summer of Code 2026 across multiple repositories:
| Project | Contribution | Status |
|---|---|---|
| bashmanager | No error message shown in UI when script file is missing | ✅ PR #173 Merged |
| github_tracker | Improve type safety in Signup.tsx error handling | ✅ PR #359 Merged |
| DevCard | Hero section mobile overflow fix | 🔄 In Review |
| career-pilot | Add PropTypes to Button, Card, and Input components | 🔄 In Review |
"Open source taught me that the best way to learn a codebase is to fix something broken in it."
| 🏗️ Building | 📚 Learning | 🎯 Goals 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| EduBridge — offline-first EdTech PWA | GKE + Cloud Build pipelines | Submit & deploy EduBridge publicly |
| AgriBridge AI v2.0 | LLM fine-tuning + RAG architecture | 5+ merged OSS pull requests |
| GSSoC '26 contributions | System design at scale | Land a strong engineering role |
💼 Open to: Internships · Full-time roles · Open source collaboration
🌐 Interests: EdTech · AgriTech · Offline-first systems · PWA · AI products
📬 Reach me: linkedin.com/in/jai-shankar-704337312
