2021-Wrap-Up

2021 Wrap-Up - Good Deeds, Small Achievements and Failures...

Became the 1st GitHub Expert from my university, and worked out with various communities in and around the University campus
Participated in EY TECHATHON'21 and stood in Top 25 teams, for developing an efficient method of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution backed by Data and AI
Proposed Thesis for SOTA Image processing Algorithm for Facial Recognition and submitted 2 Research Papers for Review.
Decided to Participate in GSOC'2021, but couldn't give enough time due to Project work and research work.

Tried my hands on GATE Exam, couldn't get the expected results.
Judged my First MLH Hackathon - MLHHACKS Hack Surrey Virtual
Won MLH KU Hackfest - Best use of GitHub Student Dev Pack
Got My 1st full-time offer
Selected in ASEAN Hackathon to represent India, after winning SIH 20, but couldn't participate due to health issue
Decided to increase CodeChef Practice Frequency, but couldn't execute the plan

Won MLH SF HACKS - Best Use of Microsoft API
Attended GitHub Satellite India as a GCE
Submitted Research Project Report for Major Project
Got my hands dirty on Prometheus, Jenkins, DataDog, Serverless Functions
Started working with NVIDIA JETSON NANO
Gave a Talk on "How to Use GitHub Student Developer Pack Like a Pro"
Although all set for MLH fellowship, I couldn't crack it possibly because of a great yet messy code repository.

Got my hands dirty on Edge Devices, Lite ML Models and ONNX
Worked around Azure IoT Hub, TensorRT, TFlite, Pytorch
Worked around with l4t Docker
Deployed my SOTA Face Recognition Algorithm on NVIDIA JETSON NANO for public use.
Overcame my imposter syndrome and depression period, which I faced due to the opportunities I missed in the past.
Started a Strict Workout and Diet Plan
Remembering that SciPy and thus opensource went to MARS

Got My 1st Dose of Vaccine
Taught DSC communities members about ML Edge Processing
Participated in DELL UNBOUNDED ANGEL HACKS, although we didn't get a great position, Learnt a lot about RUST, JAVA, PRAVEGA, KAFKA
Gave Final Semester Exams, Practicals
Defended my Research Major Project for 8th Sem
India Lost many great and loved souls, Including Mr. Shakti Goaps founder Devfolioco
India stood still in the last week of April when the Second wave shook the entire country. I am glad I was involved in helping people in need on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn throughout the month (Apr 21 - May 30). Wishing all the affected families and readers a very happy 2022.

Graduated My Bachelors with 8.5 GPA Score
Concluded my role as DSC UIET KUK Mentor
Started my Intern as Backend Dev at Zopper - A Phonepe Company
Got my Hands dirty on Django, Redis, Celery, Apache Spark and MongoDB
Learnt Monitoring with Zabbix, Graylog, Sentry
Donated Blood Plasma, as India was recovering from 2nd strike of COVID-19
Replaced VSCode with Pycharm completely
Revisited Kubernetes and Docker concepts
Got Featured in GitHub Graduation 2021 virtual Event
4th Episode of Hello Engineers was aired.
Decided to Participate in KAGGLE Hackathons, to brushup ML skills, but couldn't execute the plan well

Kisaan-Andolan finally ended on a happy note. I supported the cause from its beginning in 2020, and was really happy on 11 December 2021.
Learnt Solidity
Learnt about MORALIS Rpc, POLYGON MAINNET and POLYGON MUMBAI
Learnt about Filecoin, StackOS, Covalent, METAMASK
Developed my own CryptoToken $ASHF
Learnt about Decentralised Application, Decentralised Servers, Decentralised Databases.
Learnt and Implemented IPFS with Python
Learnt and Implemented SSE server with Python
Learnt and Implemented Socket.io with Python
Reworked on $ASHF and developed $ASHFx with Superfluid
Won Award for using SuperFluid in Shatranj in POLYGON BUIDL IT
In the Process of converting my shaayri to NFT and investing in Health, mental peace, skill set and crypto.