■FIG. A · The shared layer
About
SAUBHAGYA PANDEY · IIT KANPUR
2×
Inter IIT gold medals, Hindi poetry
33
Member team led at HSS
One person, two practices
By training I am a biological sciences undergraduate at IIT Kanpur; by practice I keep two workshops running. The first is software and applied AI — production full-stack systems, Go networking, on-device speech models, LLM routing and retrieval. The second is financial analytics — credit risk, market data operations and lender equity research. They are presented as separate doors on this site because they are evaluated separately, and each deserves to be judged on its own artifacts. What is common is the method: build something real, measure it honestly, and keep the evidence committed.
Education
| B.Tech 2023–27 | B.Tech, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering — Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. CPI 7.2/10.0. |
| Class XII | CBSE, Kendriya Vidyalaya Unnao, 2023 — score 94.8% |
| Class X | CBSE, Kendriya Vidyalaya Unnao, 2021 — score 97.6% |
| Merit | Certificate of Merit, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan — top 1.5% students nationwide |
Hindi Sahitya Sabha
As Coordinator of IIT Kanpur's Hindi literary society (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026), I built a 33-member team out of 76 applicants and co-led Akshar, a three-day literary festival run on a Rs 35 lakh budget, in partnership with Antaragni, Gaatha, the Shivani Centre and Rajbhasha Prakoshth. Rebuilding the society's website, Spotify and Instagram presence brought 20% follower growth and over 500K impressions. The website rebuild is also a project on this site — see the engineering write-up.
Away from the keyboard
- ■Gold Medal, Hindi Poetry Slam, Inter IIT Cult Meet 8.0 (for IIT Kanpur)
- ■Gold Medal, spontaneous poetry writing, Inter IIT Cult Meet 7.0
- ■Bronze Medal, Regional Chess Championship; competed at KVS National Sports Meet 2019
The poetry matters more than it looks. Writing Hindi poetry under a clock at an Inter-IIT meet is a pressure test for saying exactly what you mean in exactly the space you have — a habit that transfers uncomfortably well to code review and to research notes.