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The sanitized problem statement from the HCLTech GIFT City hackathon, broken down flow by flow, with a free PDF download you can use for your own preparation.
How a one-day HCLTech hackathon at GIFT City tested fintech system design, AI-assisted delivery, team communication, and practical engineering under pressure.
How Topmate helped me find clarity with career guidance, preparation materials, Java advanced topics, and DSA guidance.
Serverless Redis over HTTPS, why I use Upstash on my own site, how the pieces fit together, and where Redis shines when projects get complex (caching, rate limits, sessions, and more).
AI has raised output for early-career developers, but not their real-world maturity. If you expect senior results, you need senior support or senior pay.
In social media, a missed 'Like' is a small bug. In FinTech, reliability is the product. A practical look at why ACID principles protect every transaction.
From not knowing what an API was to architecting AWS video solutions. How expectations, from myself and my team, fueled my transition from Intern to Backend Engineer.
I built two real apps in unfamiliar frameworks with help from generative AI. Here’s what AI does well, and where engineering judgment still wins.
How I pivoted from eight years in taxation and accounting to building mobile and backend systems, what transferred, what didn’t, and what I learned.
