Hi, I'm Shan Usmani.

I build

Second-year CS student who ships real things — ranked #273 of 43,587 in GSSoC '26 and placed 5th out of 8,292 builders in the Vicodathon 48h hackathon.

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Vicodathon 48h
5th Place

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GSSoC Extended '26
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31 PRs merged · 9 open-source projects

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Featured Work

The Builds

The projects that define how I work — from autonomous AI agents to production-grade SaaS.

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Chronicle AI

Autonomous AI news agent that researches, scores, and publishes articles entirely on its own — ran 48h continuously and earned 5th place @ Vicodathon (8,292 builders).

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseGeminiGroq
GitHub →Live Demo →
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AapdaSarthi

Flood response copilot for DecodeSIH — citizen SOS (voice/photo/location) → nearest rescuer → HQ command center with live India rainfall map + AI risk engine.

Next.js 16TailwindLeafletOpen-MeteoZustand
GitHub →Live Demo →
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What I Do

Ship. Learn. Repeat.

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AI Agents

Built autonomous agents that research, score and publish — Chronicle AI ran 48h solo.

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Full Stack SaaS

Auth, rate-limiting, RLS, and API design across PlacementOS, AapdaSarthi and more.

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Open Source

31 merged PRs across 9 projects — bug fixes, security hardening and features.

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Hackathons

5th place @ Vicodathon 48h (8,292 builders) + DecodeSIH finalist build.