NIKHIL SAXENA

An IMDb-style clone with personalized recommendations, stats, and search.

• Django backend with HTML/CSS front end
• Personalization logic and search flow

Interactive data structures and algorithms simulator built with PyQt.

• Graphs, BSTs, lists, and standard operations
• Educational GUI for step-by-step visualization

POSIX-compliant shell with pipelines, redirection, job control, and signal handling.

• Pipelines, I/O redirection, job control, and signals (SIGINT, SIGTSTP, EOF)
• Built-ins: cd, echo, pwd, ls, pinfo, history, search

$ ls | grep .cpp
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin

Horizontal-scaling pub-sub with consumer groups and fault-tolerant messaging.

• Leader election, heartbeats, offset tracking, and group rebalancing
• WAL-based durability with replay for at-least-once delivery

producer> sent: order_created
consumer> received: order_created

GPU-accelerated video processing with shader-driven, per-pixel effects.

• Vulkan + SPIR-V pipeline with optimized memory and synchronization
• YOLOv8 + ONNX Runtime for object-aware, multi-shader effects

Low-bandwidth video transmission using PCA-based compression (Eigenfaces).

• ~80% frame compression with recognizable reconstruction at the receiver
• YOLOv8 face detection for aligned ROI before projection

Seam carving for content-aware resizing using energy maps and dynamic programming.

• Scharr/Sobel energy maps to preserve high-frequency regions
• DP-based seam selection for efficient resizing

Secure distributed payment gateway simulating bank-client transfers.

• gRPC services with SSL/TLS and interceptor-based auth/logging
• Two-phase commit with idempotency for reliable transactions

Encrypted doctor-patient communication with authenticated sessions.

• ElGamal key exchange with AES-256 encrypted messaging
• Digital signatures and timestamp checks to prevent replay