HackerEarthApr to May 2026
HackerEarth AI for Bharat
Shortlisted for the prototype phase
Cleared the idea round into prototype development. Not selected for the round after that.
03Competitions
Measured against other people
23 hackathons, datathons and ranked challenges since 2025. Each result is stated as it actually happened, which means the rejections are here too.
- 23
- competitions entered
- 5
- ranked, placed or hired
- 3
- cleared a round
- 6
- rejections, listed
Ranked, placed, hired
The ones that went furthest
- 01
HackerRank Orchestrate
Jun to Sep 202624-hour agentic AI challenges
#12 and a silver medal, up from #427
Three rounds, and the climb is the point: #427 and top 25% in June, then #290 with a bronze medal and top 15% in August, then #12 of 3,062 with a silver medal and top 1% in September. Every submission is public.
- 02
Hacksplosion 2026
2026Deloitte India
Cleared Levels 1 to 3
Deloitte's national hackathon, entered as a team of three, clearing all three levels.
- 03
KSP Datathon 2026
Aug to Sep 2026Karnataka State Police
Finalist, reached Level 2
Fifty days of work on Kadi, built end to end and deployed on Zoho Catalyst for the Karnataka State Crime Records Bureau. Shortlisted for the refined prototype phase. It is the project I rate above everything else I have built.
- 04
AWS AI for Bharat Hackathon
Jan to Mar 2026Amazon Web Services, run by Hack2skill
Finalist
Led team VaidyaMitra from idea to prototype: a privacy-first clinical assistant where every identifier is masked before it reaches the model, running on Amazon Bedrock in ten Indian languages.
- 05
SWITCH Energy-X (India)
Sep 2026Hidden Energy Systems Challenge, 24 hours
11th of 93
Recovering a hidden physical law from 500,000 unlabeled sensor rows that were 26% missing. Ranked on the private leaderboard. A small competition, but an unusually clean problem.
Cleared a round
Past the first cut
Shortlisted past the first cut, and stopped at the next one.
The Economic TimesFeb 2026
ET AI Hackathon 2.0
Shortlisted for Phase 2
Cleared the first screening into the build phase.
Confederation of Indian Industry2026
CII Post-Harvest Hackathon
Cleared Round 1
A post-harvest loss problem statement, cleared into the second round.
Built and submitted
Everything else I entered
A working entry went in. Most did not advance, and the ones that did not are listed as such.
Build with AI: Code for Communities2026
Google Solution Challenge 2026
with Vayu
Prototype submitted, certificate of completion
Vayu, from a citizen's photo to a verified enforcement order: a federated air-quality platform on Google's AI stack, entered on the clean air and climate resilience track.
Data & AI ChallengeJun to Jul 2026
Redrob AI Hackathon
with Talent Intelligence Engine
Submitted, results pending
As team EnSoc, a team of two: rank 100,000 candidates for senior AI engineering roles on a local CPU. It ranks the full pool in under 18 seconds with zero network calls, removes every honeypot profile before scoring, and writes a factual justification and trust score per candidate. A second entry, SkillProof, went into the ideathon track.
IDBI BankJul 2026
IDBI Innovate 2026
with CreditSetu
Prototype submitted
CreditSetu, explainable credit scoring for thin-file borrowers, submitted with a live deployment, a proof-of-concept deck and the full repository, for a ₹15 lakh prize pool.
Ministry of Education, national2026
Smart India Hackathon 2026
with AyurPramaan
Idea submitted
AyurPramaan, against problem statement SIH26045.
micro1's first hackathon2026
micro1 Frontier Engineering Challenge
Submitted, certificate
Built a research-artifact verifier that checks whether a paper's repository contains what its README promises, measured across 742 repositories: 0% to 100% detection of fabricated file claims.
ISRO2026
Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon 2026
Submitted, participation certificate
An idea submission against ISRO's problem statement 13.
NVIDIA2026
NVIDIA India Agentic AI Open Hackathon
with SwasthyaSetu
Applied, not selected
SwasthyaSetu, a five-agent rural healthcare access system on NVIDIA NeMo, pitched on the agentic workflows track as a team of two.
Global Fintech Fest2026
NABARD Hackathon @ GFF 2026
with Pravaah
Submitted, not selected
Pravaah, a rural finance entry for NABARD's track.
Global Fintech Fest2026
SEBI Securities Market TechSprint @ GFF 2026
Submitted, not selected
Global Fintech Fest2026
SBI Hackathon @ GFF 2026
Submitted, not selected
Flipkart2026
Flipkart Gridlock Hackathon 2.0
Submitted
Entered and submitted. No result has been announced to me.
Razorpay2026
Razorpay AI Buildathon
Submitted, did not advance
Sui Foundation, global2026
Sui Overflow 2026
Submitted
A global Web3 hackathon, the one furthest from my usual work. No shortlist announcement has reached me.
National, 47,000+ registered engineers2026
HackVega 2.0
Participation certificate
GroMo, powered by AWSMay 2025
FinArva AI Hackathon 2025
Phase 1 submitted, did not advance
Entered as team Algo Nirvana.