Rachit Kakkad theRkakkad

"The best AI systems don't just respond — they remember, reason, and act."

🧑‍💻 About Me

🎓 2nd Year B.Tech Computer Science @ Swaminarayan University, Kalol, Gujarat 📈 9.81 SGPA

🏆 Rank 4 National Finalist — National Level Hackathon

🥈 2nd Place — ElectroSphere 2K26 (Software Edition)

🏅 Top 10 Finalist — Dev Heat Hackathon 2026 @ IIIT Surat

🚀 Top 6 Finalist (150+ Teams) — ECSoC Open Source Hackathon 2026

☁️ AWS Student Builder Campus Leader 2026

🤖 Building ARKIS — A Local-First, Voice-First AI Desktop Operating System

🩺 Creator of Sanjeevani — AI-Powered Hospital Bill Auditing & Medical OCR Platform for Indian Patients

💻 Passionate about AI Systems • Full-Stack Development • System Design • Open Source • Computer Vision

🌐 Portfolio → https://rachit-hk-portfolio.vercel.app

📫 kakkadrachit1@gmail.com

💡 "I don't just build applications - I build intelligent systems that solve real-world problems."

🤝 Let's Connect

🏆 Achievements

🥇
Rank 4 Finalist
_{National Digital Identity
Hackathon @ IIT Madras}

🥈
2nd Place
_{ElectroSphere 2K26
Software Edition}

🏅
Top 10
_{Dev Heat Hackathon
@ IIIT Surat 2026}

🎓
9.81 SGPA
_{Swaminarayan University
CS Engineering}

🛠️ Tech Stack

_{🤖 AI / ML}

_{🌐 Full-Stack Web}

_{🗄️ Databases & Memory}

_{☁️ Cloud, DevOps & Desktop}

⚡ What I'm Building

🧠 AGENTIC AI

_{Systems that reason, plan
and execute autonomously}

💾 MEMORY LAYERS

_{Persistent cross-session
context pipelines}

⚙️ TOOL EXECUTION

_{Real-world tool &
orchestration layers}

🏗️ AI INFRA

_{Enterprise-grade AI
foundation systems}

🌍 Open Source — Contribution Log

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             COMMUNITY  &  COLLABORATION  ·  GSSOC 2026
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           6 PULL REQUESTS   ·   5 MERGED   ·   3 REPOSITORIES
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_{GSoC-Org-Finder}
_#1565

fix(recommendation): prevent stale async requests from overwriting latest results

Async State Management Frontend Reliability Engineering Request Lifecycle Safety

› Fixed race conditions in recommendation & GitHub analysis pipeline
› Implemented AbortController-based request cancellation
› Added request ownership validation via unique request identifiers
› Prevented stale async responses from overwriting newer results
› Improved UI state synchronization and loading consistency

_iloveAgents
_#202

fix: prevent frontend crashes from malformed AI responses in ScorecardOutput

Security & Stability Engineering Defensive Frontend Engineering AI Response Hardening

› Prevented runtime crashes from malformed AI responses
› Added defensive rendering safeguards in ScorecardOutput
› Improved overall frontend reliability under bad API payloads

_iloveAgents
_#197

[GSSoC 2026] Fix navbar logo scroll-to-top behavior

UX Engineering Frontend Navigation

› Fixed navbar logo scroll-to-top behavior on click
› Improved navigation consistency across all pages
› Enhanced overall user experience and interaction quality

_CommitPulse
_#581

feat(api): implement centralized API rate limiting middleware

Infrastructure Engineering API Protection Backend Stability

› Built centralized rate limiting middleware applied across all routes
› Added request throttling and abuse prevention logic
› Improved backend resilience under high-traffic conditions
› Protected API resources from request exhaustion attacks

_CommitPulse
_#186

refactor(svg): centralize validation and sanitization for dynamic SVG params

Security Engineering Backend Validation Infrastructure SVG Rendering Hardening

› Centralized sanitization architecture for all dynamic SVG inputs
› Added reusable validation framework across the rendering pipeline
› Hardened SVG generation against malformed and injected inputs
› Reduced injection risk surface across the full SVG param chain

_{GSoC-Org-Finder}
_#1430

fix: prevent stale recommendation results from async race conditions

Async State Management Frontend Reliability Engineering Request Lifecycle Safety

› Fixed race conditions in the recommendation pipeline
› Implemented AbortController-based cancellation of in-flight requests
› Added request ownership validation to prevent stale overwrites
› Improved UI state synchronization on rapid user interactions

CONTRIBUTION DOMAINS
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Async State Management        ████████████░░  #1430 · #1565
Security Engineering          ████████████░░  #186  · #202
Infrastructure / API          ████████░░░░░░  #581
UX / Frontend Navigation      ████░░░░░░░░░░  #197
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