Shaswat Raj playlikeboy

I build products that ship.
AI systems, full-stack applications, developer tools, and edge-first infrastructure — from idea to production.

📦 October 2026: I consolidated all of my work from @SH20RAJ into this account — 330+ repositories with full commit history, every commit authored here as @playlikeboy. The complete archive also lives in the @sh20raj-backup org and on GitLab.

⚡ What I'm building

CampusLoop
A verified campus social platform with feeds, chat, matching, stories, communities, and campus utilities.

AI-native developer tooling
RAG, agents, MCP servers, automation, search, and practical LLM workflows.

Open-source infrastructure
Libraries, browser tools, CLI utilities, extensions, and systems that make developers faster.

🧭 How I work

discover → design → build → ship → measure → iterate

I care about:

simple architecture before clever architecture
fast feedback and real users
clean DX and maintainable systems
performance at the edge
shipping useful things, not just demos

🚀 Selected work

Project	What it is	Core engineering
CampusLoop	Verified campus social network with feeds, chat, matching, stories, communities and utilities	`Next.js` · `Cloudflare` · `PostgreSQL` · `Drizzle` · `WebRTC`
SopKit	Privacy-first collection of browser utilities running primarily on-device	`Web APIs` · `WebAssembly` · `SEO` · `Performance`
Debo	AI memory and retrieval system	`RAG` · `Embeddings` · `Hybrid Search` · `Agents`
IndexFast	Automated indexing and SEO tooling with MCP integrations	`Next.js` · `PostgreSQL` · `Drizzle` · `MCP`
Sanskrit	Experimental programming language with Devanagari syntax	`Lexer` · `Parser` · `Interpreter` · `CLI`
SopPlayer	Lightweight HTML5 media player distributed through a CDN	`JavaScript` · `Media APIs` · `Library Engineering`

More things I've built

Bitotsav '26 · KishanAI · Solus · Linespedia · SnapAttend · SketchFlow · CodeSeek · Picser

🧠 Areas I enjoy

AI Systems RAG · Agents · MCP · Embeddings · LLM workflows	Product Engineering Next.js · React · TypeScript · Node.js · APIs
Data & Backend PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Drizzle · Prisma	Cloud & Edge Cloudflare Workers · Serverless · Edge Runtime · CI/CD
Developer Tools npm packages · CLIs · VS Code extensions · Browser APIs	Infra & Automation WebSockets · queues · crawling · scraping · automation

🛠️ Toolbox

TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Rust · React · Next.js · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Cloudflare · Docker

🤝 Open source

I enjoy entering unfamiliar codebases, understanding the system, and shipping focused fixes.

Recent contribution areas

Google Gemini CLI — environment handling, terminal propagation, PTY / child-process behavior, and tests.
Rocket.Chat — React state/query fixes, accessibility, type safety, and error handling.
MoFA — testing infrastructure, report exporters, timeout helpers, and reliability work.

Good open source work is often less about the size of the diff and more about understanding the system behind it.

📦 A few numbers

50+	5,000+	AI × OSS
npm packages created	participants supported by Bitotsav '26 engineering ecosystem	the intersection I keep exploring

📊 GitHub

Contribution activity

🌐 Elsewhere

Portfolio · GitHub · GitLab · LinkedIn · Dev.to · Peerlist · CodePen · YouTube · 21st.dev

Build → Ship → Learn → Repeat

_{Engineering is the craft of turning ideas into useful systems.}

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