Dharwish Raj

mail@dharwish.com Github Gitlab Resume


Tech Timeline

The Beginning

2007

Touched a computer!

First time seeing and using a computer
Explored internet and online flash games etc..

2008

First Computer in our House!

Acer Aspire 5920

Intel Core2Duo 1.6GHz Dual Core | 2GB DDR2 | 160GB

....

Exploring the world of Computers and the internet

Learned how to install Operating System
Introduction to GNU/Linux

2012

Started my own company (for fun)

Started a company called Macxer Technologies

Created a website using Weebly and obtained a freedomain from Freenom.com
Learned basics of HTML, CSS, How to Host a webiste, Domain Parking etc..

(Currently offline) Website Archive

2013

Worked with a Friend's Startup initiative called Infobis

Helped to create various websites and Managed the server for his business

Introduced and explored :
Web Hosting (cPanel), Reseller Host (WHM), CMS (Wordpress, Drupal)

VPN (Setup and Reseller), Cyber Attacks (SQL Injection)
(Currently offline) Website Archive

2013-2015

Participated in a Web Designing Competition conducted by Kerala State IT@School (HS)

It's a web designing competition with 3 Stage (Sub District, District, State)

We had to design a website for a specific topic, from scratch within 1hr, No-internet, HTML/CSS Only

Qualified to second stage 3 times

2016-2017

Participated in a Web Designing Competition conducted by Kerala State IT@School (HSS)

Qualified to Third stage twice

Won 3rd place in 2017 | Website Design

2017

Introduction to Git, Github Education Pack

Explored Github Education Pack

Explored Microsoft Azure(VM), Digital Ocean (VM), Google Cloud Engine, Vultr

2018

Co-founded FISAT Student Developer Circle (FSDC) and volunteered various events under FSDC

College community of hardware and software developers belonging to various departments of engineering who have come together to assimilate, innovate and excel in the field of development.

FSDC Website

Volunteered : Arduino Day Celebration and FSDC Announcement (2019 - March)

Volunteered : VR Experience | Giving VR Experience to students Using Oculus Rift (2020 - March)

2019

Design Project | Website Design Ranker

Website Design Ranker is a program that takes URLs as input and ranks the website's designs against each other. Each website is scrapped through to find the number of colours contained in the elements of the website.

Written in : Python, PyQt Git Link

2019

Developer | CCI FISAT (Part Time)

Center for Cyber Innovations (CCI) college's startup doing Software Consultancy

2019

Into the Framework Realm

Started learning ReactJS and NodeJS by creating small web-apps

Learned how different stack works, frontend - backend interactions

Vector Designing, UI/UX designing using Open Source tool (Inkscape, Gimp)

2019

Got my own Laptop!

Parents gifted me a Laptop after seeing me struggle with a 11 year old computer

Picked up a Lightweight laptop to work from home and college

Acer Swift 3 (2019)

Intel i5 (8th gen) Quad Core | 8GB RAM | 512GB SSD | MX250 (2GB)

2020

Organizer | ICEFOSS 2020

ICEFOSS is a Free Software National Conference organized by FISAT Free Software Cell (FFSC)

Organized and created website for ICEFOSS 2020
Stack: HTML5, CSS3, Bulma | Click Here

2020

Organizer | #MAPMYKOCHI Online Map-a-thon

Online Open Street Map Map-a-thon in collaboration with ICEFOSS 2020 & FISAT Free Software Cell (FFSC)

Organized and created website for #MAPMYKOCHI
Stack: HTML5, CSS3, Bulma | Click Here

2020

Best Beginner Hack award From MLH during HackCamp Kochi

We created a Digital Wellbeing App for Linux to track App usage and set timer for forced breaks

Written in : Go Lang, HTML/CSS(front-end) Git Link

2020

Into Single Board Computers

Our team got a Raspberry Pi 4 | 1GB RAM kit as a gift form MLH

Deployed/Explored Local Server, NAS, Plex Mediaserver, GDrive Cloner, TorrentSeeder etc

2021

Final Year Project | Low cost gesture recognition using Machine Learning

Ongoing Final Year project on Indian Sign gesture language recognition using laptop webcam

Model Generation using KNN algorithm
Written in python with the help of Mediapipe and OpenCV libraries


2021

Won First Prize in ThinkHi Idea-a-thon conducted as a part of MAGNOVITE+ International Fest | Christ University Bangalore

Our team proposed a IoT Based Green Sprinkler system to ensure sustainability in smart agriculture

Presentation Link


2021

Projects under FSDC

URL Shortener : College in house URL Shortener (Using Go, Redis, ReactJS)Git Link

FSDC Website Redesign (Idea Stage)

FSDC Social Media Post / Blog automation (Idea Stage)

And much more...



2021

Joined BigBinary as a Software Engineer

Web3 Client Project : Learned Solidty, Ethereum, NFT

Worked on Client NFT Project : SPRCLRZ

Learned Ruby on Rails, More into ReactJs, Production Level Code Writing

Worked on test project called Scribble (Ruby on Rails/ ReactJs)

Worked on company internal projects



2022

Worked as a Software Consultant at Security Impossible

CTFManager - Full Stack application to manage CTF in World Skills Competition

Created using Ruby on Rails (backend), ReactJS (frontend)



2023

Joined SwiftSoftware as a Software Engineer

Created SwiftSoftware Website

Worked on various automation / client projects



2024

Co-founded Smartester | One-stop hub for your Testing solutions

Handling tech, backend, infra side



More exciting things are coming soon