tahnik@portfolio:~$ hackathons
From winning national AI competitions to organizing community hackathons — building, shipping, and empowering others to do the same.
$ cat ~/hackathons/won.json
🏆 Vivasoft AI Hackathon 2025 — ChampionTeam Poridhi2025
• Built "AI-Enhanced System Reliability with eBPF and Intelligent Agents" — an agentic workflow using LangChain, LangGraph, and eBPF telemetry to automate monitoring, issue detection, and resolution• Demonstrated across bare metal, AWS EKS, and EC2 environments• Won 1st place out of 200+ competing teams from top tech companies nationwide
$ cat ~/hackathons/organized.json
🎯 AI Engineering Hackathon — OrganizerPoridhi × Brainstation '232023
• 80 teams, 500+ participants across multiple challenge tracks• Organized the event end-to-end: designed challenge tracks and evaluation rubric• Supported teams through mentoring, debugging, and technical guidance• Ran the demo and judging flow to ensure projects shipped — not just slide decks