Shan Usmani
Full-stack developer who builds AI products. Second-year B.Tech CS student (ABES) + BS Data Science (IIT Madras). Currently ranked in the top 1% of GSSoC '26 with 31 merged PRs across 9 projects.
Who I Am
I started with HTML and CSS, then moved through JavaScript, React, and into the modern stack I use daily — Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, and PostgreSQL. My focus is building products people actually use, with clean architecture and security baked in from the start.
In GSSoC '26 I ranked #273 of 43,587 contributors with 31 merged PRs across 9 projects. At the Vicodathon 48h hackathon I built Chronicle AI — an autonomous news agent — as a solo competitor and placed 5th out of 8,292 builders across 23 countries.
B.Tech Computer Science
ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad
Core CS with a focus on web engineering, data structures and systems.
BS Data Science
IIT Madras (online)
Parallel degree deepening foundations in data, probability and statistics.
GSSoC Extended
Rank #273 of 43,587 contributors
31 merged PRs across 9 open-source projects — features, security fixes, and infrastructure.
Vicodathon 48h
5th place · 8,292 builders · 23 countries
Built Chronicle AI, an autonomous news agent, solo — survived a live feature challenge on camera.
How I Work
Proof over claims
31 merged PRs, a 5th-place hackathon finish, top-1% rank. I let shipped work speak.
Security-minded
Rate limiting, RLS, idempotency, E2E encryption — I build with edge cases in mind.
Open source believer
Giving back to the community is how I learned the most. It compounds.
DSA daily
Stacks to DP — I train on my own DSA-Java platform to stay sharp for interviews.