Ritesh Koushik

Hi, I'm Ritesh 👋🏻

I am a backend developer with expertise in cloud technologies and distributed systems. Additionally, I enjoy building things from scratch to understand the inner workings of a system.

When I'm not in the tech zone, you can find me reading books on psychology, self-help or sketching on my scribble pad.

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  • Oct, function getFullYear() { [native code] } - Jul, 2025
    ACM's Season of Code, Amrita University - CBE, India
    Full-Stack Engineer and Organizer

    Website | Winter of Code, 24’ - Blog | Winter of Code, 25’ - Blog

    Worked as a full-stack engineer for building the platform to conduct open-source programs with bounties to encourage student participation and involvement at Amrita University, India.

    1. Winter of Code, 2025

      • Rewrote our API in Golang along with live-updates streaming via SSE.
      • Migrated Cloudflare Worker to Go for handling GitHub Events with Redis as a message-bus to send events to downstream services.
      • Built a GitHub Bot for automations and improved experience.
      • Built an achievements-engine for awarding badges to users for completing milestones.

    2. Winter of Code, 2024

      • Built a leaderboard website for the competition.
      • Built a Cloudflare Worker to capture GitHub Events like - assigned, unassigned, issue-created, issue-closed, pull-request merged.
      • Handled bounty dispatch via comments in GitHub issues and pull requests.

    Tech-Stack : Next.js, Cloudflare, Go, Redis, PostgreSQL

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