- 🏢 Currently interning as a Software Engineer @ Akatsuki AI Technologies, Tokyo
- 🎓 Final-year B.Tech CSE @ IIITDM Jabalpur (2022–2026)
- 🌱 Building across Full-Stack Development, Cloud-Native, and Data Engineering
- 💬 Ask me about React, Node.js, Spring Boot, Docker, Kafka, Grafana
- 🧠 Passionate about open source, systems design, Kubernetes, and cloud security
- 📫 Reach me at ashwinkothavade@gmail.com
🟠 Software Engineer Intern — Akatsuki AI Technologies, Tokyo, Japan (Oct 2025 – Present)
- Working on AI-driven engineering systems at Akatsuki's Tokyo HQ.
🟣 Software Engineering Intern (Full Stack) — Mobile Premier League (MPL), Pune (Jun 2025 – Aug 2025)
- Designed and shipped full-stack features on a scalable Data Engineering Platform using React and Spring Boot, including RESTful APIs and dynamic frontend pages.
- Integrated Apache Kafka and Apache Camel for real-time data streaming across microservices; implemented gRPC inter-service communication to reduce latency.
🟢 Software Engineering Intern — Argusoft (MedPlat), Remote (May 2025 – Aug 2025)
- Built and maintained 7+ interactive dashboards in React.js with a reusable component-based architecture, using React Hooks & Context API for state management.
- Integrated an AI-powered query system serving 100+ real-time requests/day, cutting data reporting time by 40%.
🔵 Backend Intern — IIITDM Jabalpur (Jun 2024 – Nov 2024)
- Contributed to the College ERP Portal — owned the elective allocation algorithm, course registration, allocation, and management modules.
- Maintained a platform serving 3,000+ users and migrated the frontend from Django templates → React.
🔴 Research Intern — IIITDM Jabalpur (Dec 2023 – Aug 2024)
- Analyzed network logs with CICFlowMeter to detect security threats at 97% accuracy.
- Monitored system performance with Prometheus, sFlow-rt, and Node Exporter; visualized attacks in Grafana, covering 70%+ of known malware attack methods.
🟡 Smallcase & Sagemelon — SWE Intern roles
- C4GT DMP'25 — Selected Contributor @ MedPlat · working on a Digital Public Good platform to enhance medical infrastructure through open-source collaboration.
| Project | Description | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| LaundriX | Smart laundry management system for hostels & PGs — automated booking, queue management, and real-time tracking. | React · Node.js · MongoDB |
| CyberFortress | API security & inventory framework integrated with CI/CD pipelines — flagged 15/16 APIs as secure and covered 60% of OWASP API Top 10. | Security · CI/CD · OWASP |
| Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks | ML pipeline detecting network threats with 97% accuracy, visualized end-to-end. | AI/ML · Prometheus · sFlow-rt · Grafana |
- 🥈 Top 22 Team — Flipkart GRiD 6.0 Semifinals
- ♞ Knight on LeetCode (Top 3%, 750+ problems solved)
- 🎯 Pupil on Codeforces (200+ problems solved)
- 🥇 AIR-1 — SOF International French Olympiad
- 📚 Top 1% in SWAYAM / NPTEL courses
- B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering — IIITDM Jabalpur (2022 – 2026)
- 10th CBSE — Sinhgad Spring Dale Public School, Vadgaon
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