Rugved Somwanshi is a software engineer and CMU Heinz College master's student with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack systems, from backend APIs to interactive front-ends. He has driven product impact at startups and research labs — as a founding engineer at Supermind he helped extract 4x more actionable insights from Telegram data, and at AI4Bharat he scaled annotation workflows fivefold while building language-focused ML tooling like Dhruva and Jugalbandi integrations. His technical toolkit spans Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Django/DRF, Next.js, FastAPI and cloud containerization, and he contributed backend work to the notable eSim-Cloud project used in education. A former PICT ACM technical head and mentor to 50+ students, Rugved blends product-first engineering with open-source and education-minded initiatives to make AI and developer tools more accessible for diverse user bases.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, 3.7 (scale of 4), Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, 3.7 (scale of 4) at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Masters of Information System Management, Masters of Information System Management at Carnegie Mellon University
12th Pass, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, 12th Pass, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration at KVN Naik Junior College
A web-based system for designing and simulating electronic (eSim) and Arduino circuits.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:131 commits, 15 PRs, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rugved primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the eSim-cloud project, specifically focusing on API development and database interactions. Their work included implementing views, serializers, and models using Django and the Django REST Framework. Key contributions involved creating endpoints for user role retrieval, circuit state management, and project management, along with integrating a new notification model.
ReactJS component library made for Bitglaze products.
Contributions:7 reviews, 37 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 month
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