● the digital workshop of Neeraj Kulkarni

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Fullstack engineer. Building the things I wish existed.

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scroll to enter ↓fig. 0 - graph paper, comes alive. drag your cursor through it.

01 / 05start here, like every good repo

readme.md

I'm Neeraj. Fullstack engineer at Qualys by day, tabs-always-open researcher by night. I got into software the way I get into most things - by taking apart something I probably shouldn't have. The first program I wrote failed in an interesting way. I've been chasing that feeling ever since.

The day job is building security platform features: frontends talking to services, Kafka pipelines holding it all together with retry configs and a lot of optimism.

The night work is different. LLM agents that actually do something useful. I'm interested in what happens when you build AI tools for yourself - not demos, not prototypes. Things you actually run.

There's also a violin that gets played most evenings, a sketchbook, and a pair of boots with Himalayan mud still on them. I don't think of these as separate from engineering.

Not everything here is polished - that's intentional. The interesting part of engineering is the bit before you know the answer.

$ status --now

building: something nobody cares
practicing: vibrato. parents still patient
planning: next trek. before the previous one fades from memory
wondering: is it really worth it?

updated more often than my resume

I have no idea whatsoever ✺currently underpaid ✺why is this marquee so long ? ✺ask me about a movie recomendation ✺One rabbit hole away to be an expert in something useless. ✺

02 / 05commits to the real world

worklog

JUL 2024 - NOW

Fullstack Software Engineer

Qualys

Spring BootReactKafkaRedisLangChain

-Core contributor to a data ingestion service using Java / Spring Boot that processes third-party asset and vulnerability feeds for risk calculation and security dashboards
-Built a LangChain + RAG-based schema transformation agent that automated mapping of third-party data contracts internal models, eliminating 100+ manual engineering hours per cycle and improving mapping consistency by 85%.
-Identified and resolved the leading cause of integration deployment failures by building a centralized configuration management system which decoupled business logic from deployment artifacts.
-Designed and built a configuration-driven React micro-frontend supporting 60+ integration-specific workflows with runtime reconfigurability, reducing code complexity by ~90%.
-Contributed to FedRAMP High compliance hardening across 6 microservices implementing FIPS-compliant encryption, audit logging, and secret rotation via HashiCorp Vault.
-Prototyped a zero-trust data ingestion SDK that isolates partner data streams at the network boundary, ensuring secure third-party integrations.

JAN 2024

Engineering Intern

Qualys

JavaJUnitOracle SQLGit

-Shipped my first production code and learned the difference between “works on my machine” and “works”.
-Discovered that reading other people's code is a skill, the codebase is the real documentation and that people working there also have no idea about what they are doing

2020 - 2024

BE, Engineering

Savitribai Phule Pune University

-Where the curiosity got structure. Also where I learned that the best way to understand a concept is to build a bad version of it first.

04 / 05the parts of me that don't compile

studio

Jack of all trades - Master at nothing, better than master of one

exhibit a - the violin

Just muscle memory and a bow that tells me immediately when I've play a bad note. Thousands of mistakes later, it almost sounds intentional.

Practice taught me more about chasing perfection than any other book: listen to the piece and isolate the broken verse. Then play it at tempo and watch it break differently. YOU JUST CAN'T HAVE IT ALL!

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exhibit b - trail log

Kuari Pass

Garhwal Himalaya

▲ 12,500 ft

Two valleys, two climates, one very wet tent.

Chandrashila

Garhwal Himalaya

▲ 12,500 ft

Summit at sunrise. Understood immediately why people keep going back.

Forts in Sahyadri

Maharashtra

▲ ~4,500 ft

Home turf. No signal, plenty of rain - the rain is a feature.

Bed to Chair

Home

▲ ~3 ft

Training for Everest by repeatedly summiting my chair.

$ also in rotation: I watch films, webseries, play badminton and touch grass occasionally

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