Ayaan Khan is a pragmatic software engineer with 7 years of experience building backend systems, AI pipelines, and scalable integrations from Bengaluru. He blends hands-on C++ and Java expertise with modern AI tooling—having architected RAG systems using Pinecone and Neo4j and integrated OpenAI APIs in production features. An active open-source contributor, Ayaan has improved code quality and routing logic in notable repos like TheAlgorithms/C-Plus-Plus and the Crow microframework, focusing on refactors, bug fixes, and documentation. He has driven end-to-end backend features—APIs, WebSockets, and low-latency services—during internships and forward-deployed roles, routinely taking designs through deployment. Founder of Shellbreaker and a tinkerer inspired by Tony Stark, he combines curiosity-driven experimentation with practical product delivery. Colleagues describe him as caffeine-fueled, detail-oriented, and unusually good at turning brittle prototypes into maintainable systems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Bachelor's degree Bsc, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Bsc, Computer Science at Scaler School of Technology
Collection of various algorithms in mathematics, machine learning, computer science and physics implemented in C++ for educational purposes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Code Quality Specialist
Contributions:300 reviews, 98 commits, 107 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ayaan primarily focused on enhancing the code quality and fixing errors in the C++ algorithms implemented in the repository. Their contributions included refactoring code to adhere to cpplint standards, resolving array overflow issues, and fixing compilation errors. The user also added documentation and comments to improve code readability and maintainability, specifically within the quick sort and heap sort algorithms.
A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 reviews, 19 commits, 3 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Ayaan primarily focused on refining the framework's routing and response handling capabilities. They made significant changes to the `routing.h` and `http_response.h` files, suggesting improvements to how requests are processed and responses are generated. Several commits reveal a focus on addressing ambiguous calls and parameter handling, optimizing the core functionality of the web framework. Additionally, the user made changes to the example files demonstrating usage of the framework.
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