# experience.md — Experience & Career Timeline

This document details the professional positions, startup roles, leadership responsibilities, and developmental timeline of Suyash Shukla.

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## 1. Professional Positions

### Full Stack Engineer — Exaflair Technologies
- **Duration:** 2026 — Present
- **Focus:** Production web and mobile applications
- **Technologies:** Next.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL, TypeScript
- **Contributions:** Architected responsive frontend components, integrated high-throughput backend APIs with Fastify, optimized relational query performance, and established modular component patterns.

### Growth Engineer — Ganges
- **Duration:** 2025 — 2026
- **Focus:** Platform automation & user onboarding
- **Contributions:** Automated manual operational workflows, tracked customer conversion funnels, and engineered scripts for rapid user onboarding.

### Co-Founder & Tech Lead — EarnBuddy.io
- **Duration:** 2025 — 2026
- **Focus:** High-throughput freelance marketplace platform
- **Technologies:** Node.js, Express, Socket.IO, Redis, MongoDB
- **Contributions:** Designed domain-driven REST APIs, real-time bidirectional chat with WebSockets, JWT authentication with refresh token rotations, and scaled platform to 1,000+ registered university students.

### Founder — Laterally Inverted Studio
- **Duration:** 2024 — Present
- **Focus:** Maker studio & collaborative software experiments
- **Contributions:** Built and deployed web utilities, educational tools (including Prayukti vLAB), and exploratory prototypes.

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## 2. Leadership & Community Roles

### President — Computer Science & Innovation Society (CSIS), MMMUT
- **Duration:** 2024 — Present
- **Contributions:** Founded and led the primary departmental technical society. Organized hackathons, weekly coding sessions, and peer mentorship programs for over 500 engineering students.

### Vice President — HackWithIndia Chapter, MMMUT
- **Duration:** 2023 — 2024
- **Contributions:** Coordinated regional developer hackathons, mentored junior students in web programming, and partnered with tech communities across India.

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## 3. Chronological Development Timeline

- **Class 6 (2016–17):** First spark in robotics via Roboshala (IIT Roorkee summer workshop). Built a thermacol-frame quadcopter with hobby DC motors.
- **Class 7 (2017–18):** Discovered web development with basic HTML and CSS; completed introductory SoloLearn tracks; joined the school computer club.
- **Class 8 (2018–19):** Hardware and Arduino explorations; created ultrasonic obstacle-avoiding robots and automated bins; mentored younger school students.
- **Class 9 (2019–20):** Won 1st place in regional science aggregation exhibition; represented school at national competitions.
- **Class 10 (2020–21):** Developed first practical web application sharing COVID-19 safety and local helpline resources; scored 96.2% in CBSE Class 10 board exams.
- **Class 11 (2021–22):** Focused on Python fundamentals, algorithmic problem solving, and data structures.
- **Class 12 (2022–23):** Explored Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scikit-learn; won 1st place in National Chemistry and Web Development exhibitions; scored 93.6% in Class 12 boards.
- **Freshman Year (2023–24):** Commenced B.Tech at MMMUT and B.Sc at IIT Madras; built sites for NGOs; tested telephony APIs (Twilio) and prompt engineering; co-founded CSIS and HackWithIndia chapter.
- **Sophomore Year (2024–25):** Founded Laterally Inverted Studio; built Prayukti vLAB serving 400+ concurrent students; launched EarnBuddy SaaS scaling to 1,000+ users.
- **Junior Year (2025–26):** Published research with Taylor & Francis on LLM bias detection; worked as Full Stack Engineer at Exaflair Technologies; qualified GATE 2026 in Computer Science & Information Technology.
- **Senior Year (Present):** Focused on distributed systems, developer tools, and reliable agentic AI architectures.

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## 4. Related Resources
- [Knowledge Home](/knowledge/me.md)
- [Projects](/knowledge/projects.md)
- [Education](/knowledge/education.md)
- [Skills](/knowledge/skills.md)
- [HTML Timeline](/experience)