Soham
Shirke

Backend systems engineer

Computer Engineering student building backends in Go and Python.
Focused on concurrent systems and practical system design.

Expected graduation 2027 · Speaker & open-source contributor

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Open source

Contributions to the tools people build with.

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Tools of the trade

GO / PYTHON

Backend & data

  • Go
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis

Tools & operations

  • Linux
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Ollama
  • Git

Web & APIs

  • REST
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework

Frontend

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Node

Selected projects

Go / Python
Backends / Systems

Personal builds and a team hackathon concept, with source links and scoped results.

SECURITY / HACKATHON CONCEPT

SATARK.SEC

A shared signal for coordinated fintech fraud patterns.

A team hackathon concept for investigating coordinated transaction-fraud patterns using generated demo data. First place at Prayatna 3.0.

Roadmap: federated learning is listed as upcoming Phase 2 in the public README.

GO / PERSONAL APP

CONTROL_PLANE

Internal runbooks and incident documentation.

A personal app for runbook workflows: session and role checks guard revisions; reviewer approval publishes a revision and its audit record in one transaction.

  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
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GO / REDIS / LEARNING PROJECT

REDIS_FORGE

A small API exploring Redis data patterns.

A learning API combining cache-aside storage, RedisJSON, search, and stream-based audit events. Includes an in-memory fallback.

  • Go
  • Redis

Repository-reported Docker profile: 2.09 ms average item reads at about 18 requests/second on a local Windows machine.

More projects 4 experiments & tools

GO / CONCURRENCY

CONCURFLOW

Bounded URL work with predictable result ordering.

Normalize and validate before network work, bound concurrent downloads, propagate timeouts and cancellation, and collect results in input order.

  • Go
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GO / DATA PIPELINE

FETCHBRIDGE

A four-stage pipeline with bounded workers.

A modular flow from ingest to normalize to validate to route, connected by channels and queue-based workers with controlled concurrency.

  • Go
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GO / DEVELOPER TOOLING

CLAWCLI

Chat, explain, and code review from one CLI.

A unified command surface for developer workflows, with local models through Ollama and configurable model providers.

  • Go
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PYTHON / READING TOOL

DARKPDF

A PDF viewer focused on dark-mode reading.

A Python PDF viewer built with PyMuPDF and a custom dark reading interface.

  • Python
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The journey so far

PUNE, INDIA
2023 - 2027

Engineering, open source, and the people behind the work.

01Hackathon first place
Go / PythonLanguages I build with

EDUCATION / 2008-2027

2023–2027

UNDERGRADUATE

B.Tech in Computer Engineering

G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Management, Pune

CGPA 8.56
2021–2023

CLASS XII / MSBSHSE

Pace Junior Science College

Thane West · Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

78.83%
2008–2021

CLASS X / ICSE

Pawar Public School

Bhandup

92.49%
  1. OPEN SOURCE / PIKOPOD

    A first contribution beyond my own repositories

    Added JSON output support to Pikopod's mode show command.

    Explore the merged contribution ->
  2. HACKATHON / TEAM RESULT

    First place - Prayatna 3.0

    Built SATARK.SEC, a collaborative fintech-security concept exploring shared signals for coordinated fraud patterns.

    View the winning post ->
  3. LEADERSHIP / TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL PUNE

    Vice President, Public Relations

    Worked on speaker mentoring, club communications, events, and ToastTimes editorial work.

  4. STARTUP / PURECUTS

    Founding COO

    Helped run a three-person supply chain from Pune to Nanded, serving barbershop-material customers.

Notes from the build

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Notes on networks, backends, and experiments with AI.

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