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OTC CatchUp #246

Date: 26-07-2025

Duration: 1 hr 31 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Everyone gave a short intro of themselves

    • Naufil, a final year B.Tech student at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, works on full-stack development and is an ex-Indian Navy SWE.

    • Ankush Kapoor, currently in his 2nd year of Computer Engineering, codes mostly in Python and C. He is interested in systems and AI/ML and is currently learning about OS.

    • Bhavesh, currently in his 3rd year at TSEC, codes mostly in Python and C. He is currently exploring Python internals, working on a B+ Tree for his DBMS project, and also working on Django and React.js for his personal project.

  • Harsh Jain asked about FFIs for using Rust code (backend) without using a C bridge.

  • Mohit shared about his initial journey, to-dos for his PhD, and about explainable AI. He is going to build a model for DRDO.

    • Mohit also shared his opinion on BITS Pilani.

  • Kartik Jain showcased his project: Art Gallery One.

    • He talked about how he used an Amazon S3 bucket for storage and deployed it with a Redis DB.

    • Mohit Shetty suggested to him how he can use AI in his project for face recognition.

  • Atharva talked about his cybersecurity project.

    • He talked about how he built a monitoring system using AI to monitor the server.

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Attendees

  1. Ankush Kapoor

  2. Bhavesh Kukreja

  3. Darshan Rander

  4. Dheeraj Lalwani (Dhiru)

  5. Hritik Jaiswal

  6. Jia Harisinghani

  7. Mohit Shetty

  8. Naufil Asar

  9. Pranav Prasanna Dani

  10. Ramyak Mehra

  11. Rishit Dagli

  12. Uma Iyer

  13. Atharva

  14. Ayush More

  15. balikabakra

  16. gon

  17. Harsh Jain

  18. Harsh Sinyal

  19. Janvi Matani

  20. Kartik Jain

  21. LUEE KASAUDHAN

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