Priyanshu Kumar

Backend & Systems Engineer
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I'm a software engineer at work. Learned by building and experimenting on the internet. Most days go into TypeScript, backend architecture. I share updates and thoughts on X / Twitter.

I build real-time systems, AI apps, and backend infrastructure. You can explore the code on GitHub.

Outside of coding, I like to read books, listen to music, and overthink ideas.

Proof of work

TradeX — Trading Platform
Priyanshu

TradeX — Trading Platform

Priyanshu Kumar
Next.js • ShadcnUI • Hono • WebSocket

Built a distributed trading system handling live market data, order execution, and real-time account state synchronization.

  • WebSocket-based streaming for low-latency price updates
  • Event-driven architecture using Redis Pub/Sub for ticker distribution
  • Order execution pipeline updating positions and wallet state atomically
  • Separate services (HTTP, WS, Rust) for scalability and isolation
Next.js
ShadcnUI
Hono
WebSocket
Redis
Drizzle
Pencil — Whiteboard collaboration tool
Priyanshu

Pencil — Whiteboard collaboration tool

Priyanshu Kumar
React.js • HTML Canvas • WebSocket • Tailwind

Built a multi-user whiteboard system with real-time synchronization of drawing actions across clients.

  • WebSocket-based event system for broadcasting drawing operations (shapes, strokes, text) in real-time
  • Canvas rendering engine handling pan/zoom transformations and smooth drawing interactions
  • Room-based architecture for isolated multi-user sessions
  • Live cursor tracking and user presence synchronization
React.js
HTML Canvas
WebSocket
Tailwind
Express.js
Retriv — Website RAG Agent
Priyanshu

Retriv — Website RAG Agent

Priyanshu Kumar
Next.js • ShadcnUI • Express.js • Python

Built a system for generating domain-specific AI agents using website data, enabling contextual Q&A through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

  • Pipeline for ingesting and chunking website content, storing embeddings in Qdrant vector database
  • Semantic search layer to retrieve relevant context for user queries
  • LLM orchestration using LangChain for response generation with contextual grounding
  • Embeddable widget with real-time chat interface for seamless website integration
Next.js
ShadcnUI
Express.js
Python
Qdrant
Langchain
Redis
Postgres
Prisma
Docker

Work Experience

SDE Internat████████

Sept 2025 - Dec 2025

Designed and built an end-to-end speech-to-speech AI calling system for automated user feedback collection

  • Engineered real-time audio streaming pipelines over WebSockets, ensuring low-latency bidirectional communication
  • Integrated speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines, delivering seamless, human-like voice interactions

Skills

Typescript
Python
React
Next.js
Node.js
Postgres
Redis
Langchain
LangGraph
Docker
Kafka
Artifical Intelligence

Github

 

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