Samyak Raka

Associate Software Engineer, AI Systems
at Crowdera

SamyakRaka

Software engineer building AI systems with LLMs, RAG and AI agents. 4× hackathon winner.

I take AI from prototype to production: RAG pipelines, LLM agents and the full-stack apps that put them in front of real users.

Now
AI systems at Crowdera, full time
Record
4 hackathon wins, 2× Smart India Hackathon finalist
Studied
B.Tech Computer Engineering, 2026, CGPA 8.71
Based in
Nashik, India

Selected work

What each project does, and what it's built with.

Security, deep learning

AI-powered web application firewall

Catches zero-day and anomalous web requests that rule-based firewalls let through.

A DeBERTa-v3 transformer scores each request in real time. It runs as an Nginx sidecar, so existing services stay untouched, and the model updates incrementally as traffic changes.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • DeBERTa-v3
  • Nginx
  • Docker
  • Redis
  • FastAPI

Identity verification for SMEs

KYCrypt AI

Lets small businesses verify customer identity and flag fraud without an enterprise KYC budget.

OCR and computer vision read and check ID documents, every step is AES-encrypted end to end, and a blockchain audit trail records each verification so it can't be quietly altered.

  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • FastAPI
  • OpenCV
  • Tesseract
  • MongoDB
  • Firebase
  • Blockchain

GenAI ordering and scheduling

Medibites

One platform for restaurant orders and medical appointments, run by voice and chat AI.

Two interfaces share one backend: diners order and pay through a conversational assistant, and patients book appointments by talking to it. Payments go through Razorpay, live chat through Stream.

  • Next.js
  • Flask
  • Python
  • Mistral AI
  • ElevenLabs
  • Firebase
  • Razorpay
  • Stream Chat

Mobile app

SocioDev

A community app where developers share articles, bookmark posts and draft writing with AI.

Built in React Native with Firebase handling auth, Firestore and storage. Grok generates article drafts that authors can edit before posting.

  • React Native
  • Firebase
  • Grok
  • NativeWind

Earlier builds

  • StackItA minimal question-and-answer platform for communities. (Next.js, Firebase)
  • AstralyticsSocial media engagement insights with LangFlow and Astra DB. (LangFlow, Astra DB, Next.js)
  • ATS ScorerRanks and improves resumes against a job description with NLP. (MERN, Python, NLP)
  • Research AI AgentResearches a topic and writes a summary document. (LangChain, Flask)
  • FlexiCareCorrects posture in real time from a webcam feed. (Python, MediaPipe, OpenCV)
  • Article SummarizerTurns long articles into short summaries. (JavaScript, AI)
  • Smart BinTracks garbage levels in public bins with ultrasonic sensors. (Arduino, Flask)
  • YouTranscribeTranscribes, translates and summarizes YouTube audio. (Python, Streamlit, gTTS, yt-dlp)

Experience

Jun 2025 – now
Hybrid, Singapore

Crowdera

Associate Software Engineer, AI Systems, Jul 2026 – now, full time

  • Building LLM, RAG and AI agent systems into Crowdera's products, now full time after a year in the Founder's Office.

AI Enablement Intern, Founder's Office, Jun 2025 – Jun 2026

  • Built and deployed AI applications, agents and decision systems used across the business.
  • Integrated LLMs, RAG and automation workflows into production products, from system design and model experiments through deployment and tuning.
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • AI agents
  • Vector databases
  • Next.js
  • Firebase
  • MongoDB
  • Python
  • AWS

May 2026 – Jun 2026
Remote

CaDashboard

AI Engineer, part time

  • Built knowledge systems that answer tax, compliance and financial-advisory questions from the firm's own documents.
  • Shipped FAQ assistants and retrieval pipelines on Pinecone, grounded in real organizational data.
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • Pinecone
  • MySQL
  • Python
  • NLP

Oct 2023 – Oct 2024
Remote

Hacktoberfest

Open source contributor

  • Contributed to 14+ repositories: documentation, bug fixes and new features, alongside 10,000+ developers.
  • C++
  • Python
  • Machine learning

My own app

Built, shipped and maintained on my own, outside work.

Expenseek

Founder and developer

Split bills, track spending and settle up with friends, roommates or travel groups, all in one place.

  • Online groups with real-time sync, or offline groups that never leave your phone
  • Equal or custom splits, with balances and settlements worked out automatically
  • 150+ currencies, spending dashboards, and PDF or Excel reports
installs
50+
rating on Google Play
5.0
Get it on Google Play

Hackathons

Four wins and two Smart India Hackathon finals as team lead.

First place

  • Technitude Global Hackathon

    SP Jain Institute, Sydney

  • Hack4Real Good

    Crowdera

  • Prompt & Profit AI Hackathon

    DTU × Blogy

  • LoRRI AI Hackathon 2026

    LogisticsNow

  • Smart India Hackathon finalist, team lead

    2024, UIDAI problem at MUJ Jaipur. 2025, ISRO problem at GTU Ahmedabad.

  • Top 10, Shaastra Smart City Challenge

    IIT Madras

  • Top 1000, Amazon ML Challenge and IMC Prosperity 4

    Out of 60,000+ teams

  • Finalist at national hackathons

    OpenHack (IISc Bangalore), SunHacks, Kleos 2.0, Level SuperMind, Incuverse 1.0

Toolkit

AI and ML

  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • LangChain
  • Langflow
  • NLP
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • OpenCV
  • OCR
  • Pinecone
  • NumPy
  • Pandas

Web and mobile

  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Streamlit

Data and infra

  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Firebase
  • AWS S3
  • Docker
  • Vercel
  • Git

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • C

Also

  • System design
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • AES encryption
  • Blockchain (PKI, hashing)
  • Figma

Education

B.Tech, Computer Engineering

K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research

2022 – 2026, CGPA 8.71 / 10

  • Data Science, ML, DL and NLP BootcampUdemy, Jul 2025
  • The Ultimate React Course: React, Next.js, ReduxUdemy, Jul 2025
  • React NativeInfosys Springboard, Apr 2025
  • AWS Academy Cloud FoundationsAWS Academy, Mar 2025