Software engineer with 3.5+ years in fintech - building and shipping B2B payment platforms, banking kiosks, and real-money transaction systems at AuroPay, Mumbai. Now doing my MS in Information Systems at Northeastern University (2025–27) and open to Summer/Fall 2026 co-op roles in software engineering, data, or AI.

When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm tracking tail numbers at Logan ✈️ or coaching form at Marino Recreation Center 🏋️.

name: Chinmay Sakhare
location: Boston, MA
education: MS Information Systems @ Northeastern University (2025–2027)
looking_for: Summer 2026 Co-op - Software Engineering
previous_role: Software Engineer @ AuroPay, Mumbai (3.5 years)
hobbies:
  - Plane spotting ✈️ (yes, I know the difference between a 737 MAX and a 737 NG)
  - Helping people lift heavy things @ Marino Recreation Center
  - Building things I almost bought online

Distributed log analytics system built from scratch - the kind of thing Splunk and ELK Stack do, rebuilt to understand how it actually works. Full pipeline: a Python file tailer with exponential backoff and disk buffering, a FastAPI ingestion service writing to Astra DB (Cassandra) partitioned by service and date, hourly aggregates in PostgreSQL to keep stats queries cheap, a query API with cursor-based pagination, and a React dashboard with live tail, analytics charts, and a real-time log generator.

Deployed entirely on free tiers (Fly.io, Astra DB, Neon, Vercel) with rate limiting, CORS controls, and a GitHub Actions cron for daily data generation. Nine distinct deployment failures - port restrictions, SSL bundles, Fly.io sleep cycles - documented and resolved.

FastAPI Python Cassandra (Astra DB) PostgreSQL React Fly.io Docker Prometheus

Full-stack hospital management platform - patient registration, doctor scheduling, appointment management, billing with insurance claims, lab test tracking, prescriptions, and pharmacy inventory. Built for the DMDD course at Northeastern.

26-table normalized schema with 3 UDFs, 6 views, 1 audit trigger, 6 stored procedures, 54 performance indexes, and AES-256 column-level encryption on sensitive patient and insurance data. Deployed on free infrastructure: Oracle Cloud Always Free VM running the .NET API, Cloudflare Worker as an HTTPS proxy (bypassing Oracle's HTTP-only egress), Azure SQL Serverless for the database, Netlify for the frontend.

React .NET Core 9 SQL Server Azure SQL Dapper Oracle Cloud Cloudflare Worker DuckDNS

Real-time café occupancy and customer behavior tracker built in 4 hours at the Plainsight × MGEN Computer Vision Hackathon 2025. YOLOv8 handles object detection, Norfair handles multi-object tracking, Shapely defines zone boundaries. The pipeline counts barista actions, tracks customer dwell time from entry/exit timestamps, and outputs live seat occupancy to a CSV log and console display.

Python YOLOv8 OpenCV OpenFilter Shapely PyTorch Norfair

Was about to buy LED strips off TEMU. Built this instead. Captures microphone audio in real time, runs beat detection on the bass frequency range (bottom 25% of FFT bins, 50ms debounce), and makes your entire screen flash and pulse with the music. Four modes: Strobe, Disco, RGB, Rainbow. No hardware required - just a browser and something playing loud enough for the mic to catch.

React 18 Web Audio API AudioContext / AnalyserNode getUserMedia requestAnimationFrame

Interactive portfolio built to feel like a product, not a template. Working terminal with 20+ commands, 4 hidden games (Snake, Tetris, Memory Match, Typing Speed Test), section-aware emoji cursor trails, scroll-triggered animations, and 10 color themes (5 light, 5 dark). Built entirely in React with zero CSS frameworks - every style is inline, every color flows from a single theme object in themes.js.

Hidden features: type snake, tetris, memory, or typing in the terminal. Try the Konami code. Run sudo hire chinmay.

React 18 Vite Canvas API Web Audio API React Context IntersectionObserver Netlify

Software Engineer - AuroPay (Mumbai, India · 3.5 years)

Built and maintained a B2B payments platform processing real-money transactions. Developed banking kiosk applications (CDK/PBK/MFK) deployed at Kotak Mahindra, Axis Bank, and SBI branches across India.

.NET Core MySQL AWS Serverless Angular .NET MVC SQL Server

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