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Aayush Raj

builder & engineer

Builder & Engineer — Goa, India

I build across the full stack — physical and digital.

20-year-old builder working across embedded systems, IoT, mobile, web, and AI — often in the same project. Filed my first patent at 18, contributed through Google Summer of Code at Debian, and have been running startups since 19.

1Patent Filed
GSoC '25Debian
3+Startups
Hardware Builds
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Experience
Sep 2025 – Present

Maintainer

Debian

Maintainer in the Salsa CI team, improving the CI/CD pipeline for the Debian ecosystem.

salsa.debian.org/44yu5h
Apr 2025 – Sep 2025

Google Summer of Code

Debian

Built the Salsa CI Dashboard and improved several components of the CI pipeline.

salsa-ci-stats.debian.net
May 2025 – Jul 2025

Engineering Intern

Xebia

Built an employee performance report analyzer for process optimization.

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

C4GT Summer Intern

Sugar Labs

Built Sugar OS for Raspberry Pi, integrated 15+ sensors and 5 apps including camera.

Sep 2023 – May 2024

Research Intern

BITS Pilani

Individual research projects: satellite water quality monitoring (patent filed at 18), post-surgery fluid discharge monitoring, cardiac arrhythmia detection patch, and algae-based air purifier.

About

Building since before AI was a thing across hardware, software, and everything in between.

Education

BITS Pilani

MSc Biological Sciences + BE Mechanical Engineering (Dual Degree) · Aug 2023 – May 2028

Which has nothing to do with most of what I build.

(01)

embedded & hardware

Multi-MCU board designESP32 & Raspberry PiIoT full-stack systemsCustom PCB & sensors3D CAD for enclosures
(02)

software development

Flutter & mobile appsWeb developmentChrome extensionsCI/CD pipelinesLinux systems & DevOps
(03)

integration & systems

Hardware–software bridgesDevice → network → backend → appWebSocket real-time systemsAPI design & architectureOpen source contribution
Pre-AI hardware builds
Single-propeller drone with water-based balancingArm-wearable computer (Raspberry Pi, 3 versions built)Garden automation with Telegram updatesHome automation & voice-controlled systems