Available for internship & collaboration

Piyush Das

Diploma student building AI-powered, offline-first applications.
I focus on performance engineering, multi-LLM integrations, and software that works reliably without a network.

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DEV.to April Fools Developer Challenge Winner — awarded top prize for Volex (Volume by Exercise)

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What I'm building

Two active flagship projects — both in development, both solving real problems I care about.

Stash AI

Active Dev

Personal knowledge management platform with AI organization. Built for offline-first use — your notes and knowledge stay on your device, searchable and structured by AI without a cloud dependency.

React TypeScript Gemini API IndexedDB MCP

Current phase

Architecture design
Core AI integration
Local-first sync
Public beta
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GhostScreen

Active Dev

Android privacy utility that gives you invisible overlay control — block screen captures and recordings at the OS level without rooting your device. Built with Kotlin and the Android Accessibility APIs.

Kotlin Jetpack Compose Accessibility API ADB

Current phase

Overlay engine
Permissions flow
UI redesign
Stable v1.0 release
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More Projects

AniRec

Shipped

Full-stack AI anime recommender & personal library. Orchestrates Gemini Flash for real-time metadata parsing and Gemini Pro for narrative recommendations across 4 external APIs.

React Node.js SQLite Gemini
Case Study GitHub

CivicLens AI

Hackathon

AI-powered civic complaint platform built with React + FastAPI. Implements semantic response caching to eliminate redundant Gemini API calls and reduce latency significantly.

React FastAPI Gemini AI Python
Case Study Live App

WhatsApp Chat Viewer

Shipped

High-performance browser app for parsing and rendering exported chat logs locally. Combines DOM Virtualization and Web Workers for smooth scrolling through gigabyte-scale files.

Vanilla JS Web Workers DOM Virtualization
Case Study Live Demo

AI-to-Docx Converter

Shipped

Next.js utility that intercepts AI chat outputs and compiles LaTeX math equations into native Word OpenXML Math (OMML) — fully editable in Microsoft Word, no plugin needed.

Next.js TypeScript Pandoc OMML
Case Study GitHub

Volex

DEV.to Winner

Fitness tracking web app that won the DEV.to April Fools Developer Challenge. Zero-dependency Vanilla JS with dynamic workout volume calculation and local IndexedDB storage.

Vanilla JS IndexedDB CSS
Case Study Live Demo
Highlights

Selected achievements

DEV.to April Fools Developer Challenge Winner

Awarded top prize among global submissions for Volex — a zero-dependency workout volume tracker.

Apr 2026

Built a dual-LLM recommendation pipeline

AniRec: orchestrates Gemini Flash for real-time entity extraction + Gemini Pro for narrative recommendations across 4 APIs.

Feb 2026

DOM Virtualization for gigabyte-scale logs

WhatsApp Chat Viewer: engineered viewport windowing + Web Worker threading to scroll multi-GB chat exports without memory crashes.

Apr 2026

Actively building Stash AI & GhostScreen

Two flagship projects in active development — an AI-powered knowledge manager and an Android privacy utility.

2026 →
Skills

Technical toolkit

Languages

TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Kotlin
HTML / CSS

Frontend

React
Next.js
DOM Virtualization
Web Workers

Backend

Node.js / Express
FastAPI
REST API Design

AI

Gemini API (Pro & Flash)
Model Context Protocol
Multi-LLM Orchestration
Prompt Engineering

Storage

SQLite
IndexedDB
Offline-first design

Tools

Git / GitHub
Antigravity IDE
Android Studio
Gemini CLI
Writing

Articles & case studies

Technical writeups and project breakdowns published on DEV.to.

Challenge Winner

Volex — Volume by Exercise

Detailed breakdown of building a zero-dependency workout volume tracker. Covers the calculated tonnage math, IndexedDB persistence, and how it won the DEV.to April Fools challenge.

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Someday — The Evasive To-Do List

A humorous exploration of procrastination psychology, built into a to-do list that makes tasks deliberately hard to complete. Writeup covers the UX design decisions behind the chaos.

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DocScan Pro

Project breakdown on building a browser-based document scanner using HTML5 Canvas API image preprocessing — no server, no upload, everything processed client-side.

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Let's connect

Open for internship opportunities, collaboration, and interesting conversations about AI and offline-first software.

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More pages

A few dedicated pages that go deeper — what I'm building right now, my exact setup, writing, and a full CV.

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What I'm doing now

Active projects with phase tracking, recently shipped work, and current engineering goals.

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My setup & tools

Hardware, editors, AI models, shell, browsers, and every tool I use daily to build software.

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Writing & case studies

Technical articles, project breakdowns, and challenge submissions published on DEV.to.

/resume

Full resume & CV

Timeline of projects, technical skills by category, education — with a printable PDF download.