“Progress often looks like failure until the one idea that makes every previous mistake meaningful.”
About
I'm a full-stack developer who enjoys turning difficult ideas into software people can actually use. Competitive programming taught me to look for the simplest solution hiding behind a complicated problem, and that mindset follows me into every project I build.
Most of my work lives on the backend these days—distributed systems, microservices, performance, and the kind of infrastructure that's easy to ignore until it breaks.
Whether it's an ICPC contest, a hackathon, or a side project, I'm usually chasing the same thing: the moment a problem finally makes sense. Everything after that is just engineering.
Kartikay Pandey
Full-Stack Dev & Competitive Programmer
Technology
End-to-end web apps — design, front-end, typed APIs, deploy. I own the whole slice.
Codeforces, LeetCode, ICPC. 1500+ problems solved. Data structures as a hobby, not homework.
Microservices, queues, sandboxes, telemetry. The plumbing that has to not fall over.
Selected work
Distributed benchmarking for trading engines.
A distributed platform across 6 decoupled microservices (Go + C++) that sandboxes, executes and evaluates high-frequency trading engines — with strict container isolation and a low-latency telemetry pipeline.
Campus recruitment that replaced the spreadsheets.
A centralized placement platform with role-based flows for students, recruiters and admins, backed by a normalized PostgreSQL schema built for high-volume applications.