Vijay Hegde

B.E. Computer Engineering student at PSG College of Technology

HCLTech

Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

1+ years experience

PSG College of Technology

English, Hindi, Telugu

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Overview

B.E. student who got hooked on mobile development in first year. Recently built a Discord bot used by 1898 students. Interned at HCLTech last summer. Comfortable with Python and PostgreSQL. I write a small newsletter about API platforms.

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Mentors who have done this before
Collaborators for my side project
Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Working sessions on Python

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Generic networking requests
Requests to fix your code for free

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills

PythonPostgreSQLDjangoRedisrate limiting

LearningLearning something

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Want to learn system design for interviews from someone who has done it

Goal: Build a portfolio project in API platforms that I'd be proud to show.
Where I am now: Beginner
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in API platforms for a few years
Cadence: Weekly
What I can offer back: Testing and feedback on your projects

Working on a price tracker for textbooks. An hour a month would make a big difference.

Hyderabad, Indiaredisdjangorate limiting

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CollaboratingLooking to collaborate

closes in 3 months

Looking for collaborators on an open-source Django toolkit

Project: An open-source Django toolkit
Skills needed: Data, Django
Time commitment: A few hours a week
Outcome: Open-source release

A few hours a week. Some groundwork already done.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKpythondjangoredis

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Experience

Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
HCLTech · 2 mo · Internship · Hyderabad, India
- Brought on-call pages for public API down from 28 a week to 1.
- Moved 73% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 310ms to 53ms.

Projects

API platforms benchmark

2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Redis and rate limiting on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from public API

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling API platforms.

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Education

PSG College of Technology
B.E., Computer Engineering
2023 - 2027

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