Pratham Shah

Open to junior cloud, backend and full-stack roles, Pune, India

Pratham Shah

Cloud and full-stack engineer. 2026 CS graduate, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer.

Internships in Google Cloud cost optimization at Searce and full-stack Next.js and FastAPI work at NeuraMach AI Studios. Outside work I build on AWS and ship small products: a CDK-defined streaming platform, a RAG app on Postgres and pgvector, and a Chrome extension with 1,270+ weekly users.

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Four systems I’ve worked on, input to output

What you can check

Everything below links to something you can open: source code, a live product, a store listing or the role write-up.

Selected work

The two projects on my resume, plus paid client work and a shipped extension. Each has a case study with the architecture and the decisions behind it.

All 9 projects
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  1. Viewerweb app on CloudFront
  2. Cognito Hosted UIPKCE authorization code
  3. Auth LambdaHMAC-signed state, JWT verify
  4. Signed cookiesHttpOnly, Secure, 4-hour policy
  5. CloudFrontkey group checks every request
  6. Private S3.m3u8 + .ts segments

Video platform on AWS, Aug 2026 – Sep 2026

StreamVault

Invite-only HLS video streaming on AWS with edge-enforced access control.

End-to-end video platform: an EC2 FFmpeg pipeline produces multi-audio HLS, Cognito with PKCE signs viewers in, a Lambda issues CloudFront signed cookies, and a FastAPI + DynamoDB service syncs watch progress. Infrastructure is defined in AWS CDK.

  • AWS CDK
  • CloudFront signed cookies
  • S3
  • Cognito (PKCE)
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
Read the case studySource(opens in a new tab)
InsightVault query screen: a question box, recent questions in the sidebar and a panel counting answered questions.

AI product (RAG), Nov 2025 – Sep 2026

InsightVault

Ask questions of your own PDFs and get answers grounded in the passages that support them.

A retrieval-augmented question-answering app. PDFs are chunked, embedded into Postgres with pgvector, and searched by cosine similarity before an LLM answers from the retrieved context only.

  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • Supabase Postgres
  • pgvector (HNSW)
  • OpenAI / Gemini / Hugging Face embeddings
  • Groq / OpenAI chat
Read the case studySource(opens in a new tab)
Abhinandan Mountreea homepage: a full-width rendering of modern villas with timber facades and a Schedule Visit button.

Freelance client work, Jul 2025 – Nov 2025

Abhinandan Mountreea

Marketing site for a residential villa project, built for a paying client.

Freelance build of a real-estate showcase, from requirements to deployment, with image delivery through Cloudinary (WebP, caching, lazy loading) to keep the image-heavy pages light on mobile.

  • React
  • Vite
  • GSAP
  • Cloudinary
  • WebP
Read the case studyLive site(opens in a new tab)
Chrome Web Store listing for Force Dark Mode, showing 1,000 users and a screenshot of Wikipedia.

Chrome extension, Jan 2026 – present

Force Dark Mode

Privacy-first Chrome extension that darkens websites, PDFs and local documents. 1,270+ weekly users.

A Manifest V3 extension, published as Force Dark Mode - ThemeSwitcher under my Chameleon Labs brand, that picks a dark-mode strategy per page, renders PDFs offline in a dark canvas viewer, and syncs per-site preferences. No telemetry and no network requests.

1,270+ weekly usersSource: Chrome Web Store developer dashboard, 30 Sep 2026

  • JavaScript
  • Chrome Extensions MV3
  • PDF.js
  • chrome.storage.sync
  • MutationObserver
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More work

Three kinds of engineering, one engineer

Grouped by what I can do rather than by logo. Every line points to where it was done.

Cloud and infrastructure

Secure, cost-aware systems on AWS and Google Cloud.

  • Google Cloud cost analysis: billing data, utilization, rightsizingSearce internship
  • Edge-enforced access control with CloudFront signed cookiesStreamVault
  • Serverless pieces: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDBStreamVault
  • Infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Cognito and Secrets ManagerStreamVault

Google Cloud, AWS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, EC2, AWS CDK, Docker, Vercel

Backend and full-stack

Web products from data model to deployed interface.

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Express, FastAPI, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Supabase, MongoDB, Tailwind CSS

Applied AI and research

LLM features grounded in data, and ML on real signals.

OpenAI API, Gemini API, Groq, pgvector, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, pandas

Now

Updated September 2026.

Just finished
A cloud reliability internship at Searce (Apr – Aug 2026), working on Google Cloud cost optimization, and a B.Tech in Computer Science at MIT-ADT University, Pune. Details: just finished
Shipping
Force Dark Mode 1.7.0, a Chrome extension with 1,270+ weekly users. The latest release added offline DOCX and PPTX preview, brightness and contrast sliders, and scheduled dark mode. Details: shipping
Open to
Junior cloud, backend, FinOps and full-stack engineering roles in India. Details: open to

Experience

Full experience
  1. Apr 2026 – Aug 2026Searce Inc.Associate Cloud Reliability Engineer (Intern)FinOps work on Google Cloud: reading billing and utilization data to find waste, and recommending changes that cut cost without hurting performance.
  2. Jan 2026 – Apr 2026NeuraMach AI StudiosAI/ML Full-Stack Engineering Intern (QA focus)Full-stack work with a QA focus on the core engineering team of an early-stage AI studio: Next.js and TypeScript frontends wired to FastAPI services.
  3. Jul 2025 – Nov 2025Abhinandan MountreeaFrontend Developer (freelance)Sole developer on the marketing site for a residential villa project, from client requirements through deployment.
  4. Jul 2024 – May 2025IS360 TechnologiesResearch Developer, BCI NeuroArmWorked on the signal-classification side of NeuroArm, a team brain-computer interface project for controlling a prosthetic arm from EEG.

Research

On the NeuroArm team at IS360 Technologies I worked on EEG preprocessing and classification for a brain-controlled prosthetic arm, and on a visualization that shows the signal path from brain to arm.

Read about the researchNeuroArm case study

Credentials

Open source

Selected public repositories. Every project on this site that isn't client work has its source here.

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Engineering notes

Walkthroughs of specific decisions in my own code.

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Client feedback

“The website reflects exactly what we had envisioned - a platform that communicates our brand values, showcases our flagship project, and builds trust with potential customers. His attention to detail, technical expertise, and timely delivery have truly impressed us.”

Abhinandan Group. Freelance client, Abhinandan Mountreea website, November 2025. See the project

Hiring for cloud, backend or full-stack work? I’d like to hear about it.

I’m looking for junior cloud, backend, FinOps and full-stack engineering roles in India. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

pshah88669@gmail.com
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