[00]Hackathons
Built against the clock
Hackathons and build competitions: a brief, a deadline and a team, and something real at the end of it.
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Build log
- 14hackathonSept 2026🎯 Finalist · Top 10 of 200+ teams★ Top 10 · Grand Finale
SAP HackFest'26
Chandigarh University · SAP · LTM · Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab · in person · Round 1 + Grand Finale
- Team
- EVOLVE AI — with Kaushal Jindal, Pulkit P., Aaradhya Khanna
- Role
- Frontend, integrations & making it all connect
- Track
- Supply chain resilience
- Built
- MYCEL
What happens when you stop trying to predict failure and start preparing for it? That was the idea we carried from Round 1 to the Grand Finale of SAP HackFest'26, a North India regional hackathon. We started among 200+ teams at Chitkara, made the Top 10, and presented MYCEL at Chandigarh University: AI agents that run worst-case scenarios on a supply chain and find the alternative paths before anything breaks.
Next.jsReactFastAPIMongoDBRabbitMQGroqGeminiArmorIQ - 13hackathonAug 2026🎯 Finalist · Top 15 of 67 teams★ Top 15 · Microsoft, Noida
Automate India Hackathon 2026
HackBriven · ArmorIQ track · Microsoft Office, Noida · in person · 3 days
- Team
- EVOLVE AI — with Kaushal Jindal, Aaradhya Khanna, Piyush Sharma
- Role
- Pixel-office frontend & workforce orchestration
- Track
- ArmorIQ track · Secure AI agents
- Built
- KIBBUTZ
What if AI agents had to get real jobs? We built KIBBUTZ, an autonomous AI company: give it a goal and it hires AI employees, delegates, builds and ships, all inside a live pixel-art office. The catch was the ArmorIQ track's real question: who authorised that action? 67 teams entered the track, 15 were invited to the final at the Microsoft office in Noida, and we were one of them.
React + ViteFastAPIMongoDBRabbitMQWebSocketsGroqGeminiArmorIQ SDK - 12competitionJul 2026🏆 Winner · 🥇 1st place★ 2 hours · 1st place
DOMINATION: The Frontend Challenge
Code 2 Chill Club · Chitkara University · Chitkara University, Punjab · in person · 2 hours
- Team
- AA-OG's — with Aaradhya Khanna
- Role
- Creative frontend & 3D
- Track
- Open-World Game Companion (GAM-03)
- Built
- AETHERIA
Two hours, one theme, a full frontend. Ours was "Open-World Game Companion", and we built AETHERIA: a cinematic portal that opens on a floating 3D island and descends, in one scroll, into four worlds of maps, relics, legends and trades. We thought first, planned, designed, then built. And we took first place. 🥇
Next.jsThree.jsReact Three FiberGLSL shadersWeb AudioTailwind CSS - 11competitionMay 2026Participant★ 2 hours · finished later
Byte the Vibe
Code 2 Chill Club · Chitkara University · Chitkara University, Punjab · in person · 2 hours
- Role
- Backend & AI pipeline
- Built
- PlungePhoenix
Two hours to build a complete product, frontend and backend. Bhavishya and I built PlungePhoenix, an AI market-intelligence platform that listens to spoken market commentary, scores the panic in it and turns live financial news into trading insight. We didn't finish on the clock. I finished it afterwards. 🔥
FastAPIPythonReact 19ViteAssemblyAIChromaDBOpenRouterGeminiWebSockets - 10hackathonApr 2026Participant★ A real app, finally
Finvasia Innovation Hackathon 2026
Evolve AI · Finvasia · Department of CSE-AI, Chitkara University · Chitkara University, Punjab · in person · Online round + final
- Team
- BUGHACKERS 404 — with Piyush Sharma, Aaradhya Khanna
- Role
- Team lead · Full-stack architecture & integration
- Track
- Designing the financial super app for Gen Z India
- Built
- BODHI
A fintech hackathon organised by Evolve AI, my own club at Chitkara, together with Finvasia. Our pitch: finance apps shouldn't feel like slot machines, because money is social. We built BODHI ("Your money. Alive.") with group trip wallets, investment clubs with friends, insurance explained as stories and a voice AI. This was the first time we built a real mobile app that actually felt like a product.
React NativeTypeScriptReanimated 3FastAPIPostgreSQL (Neon)AWS LambdaGeminiSarvam AIRazorpayyfinance - 09hackathonApr 2026Participant★ Spoken words → silent hands
Hack Helix
Helix 2026 · Hackfest'26 · Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology · TIET, Patiala, Punjab · in person · 24 hours
- Team
- BUGHACKERS 404 — with Lakshman Bansal, Piyush Sharma, Dev Kabir Deora, Deepanshu Arora, Asmit Chitkara
- Track
- Problem statement revealed on the spot
- Built
- Sign Setu
Back at Thapar two weeks after Eclipse, this time for Hackfest'26. The problem statements were handed out on the spot, and we had 24 hours. We built Sign Setu, which turns spoken English or Hindi into Indian Sign Language, signed by a 3D avatar right in the browser. Our friends had teams all around us, and it was amazing fun.
Next.js 16React 19Three.jsDjango REST FrameworkspaCy & NLTKAssemblyAIOpenRouterFFmpeg - 08hackathonApr 2026Participant★ First outstation hackathon
Eclipse 6.0
ACM Thapar · Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology · TIET, Patiala, Punjab · in person · 24 hours
- Team
- Evolve AI — with Manan Kochhar, Piyush Sharma, Bhavishya Grover, Asmit Chitkara
- Track
- SLM Voice Agents · Oumi sponsor track (EC602)
- Built
- ASHA-VANI
My first outstation offline hackathon: 24 hours at Thapar, Patiala. The brief was a real-time voice agent on a fine-tuned small language model. We built ASHA-VANI, an offline Hinglish voice assistant for ASHA health workers in rural India, with no internet needed. Every part worked on its own. Getting them all working together was the real boss fight.
Qwen2.5-3BOumi (LoRA)MLX 4-bitfaster-whisperPiper TTSOpenWakeWordFastAPIReact + Vite - 07competitionApr 2026Participant★ Back for 2.0
NeuraCode 2.0: Where Logic Meets Glory
BE CSE-AIML · Chitkara ACM Chapter · CodeQuotient · Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab · in person
- Track
- Logic & problem solving
Back for the second edition. NeuraCode 2.0 was the same idea, raised: logic questions, any language from Python, C, C++ or Java, and the clock. It pushed me to think critically and sharpen how I break a problem down. 💻
- 06competitionMar 2026Participant★ Pitch, not code
WasteWise: Pitch the Future
Chitkara University Toastmasters Club · Chitkara University Language Centre · Chitkara University, Punjab · in person · 4–5 minute pitch
- Role
- Co-founder, on stage (both of us pitched)
- Track
- E-waste & data-center waste
- Built
- EcoGrid
A pitch competition, not a build: act as startup founders and convince the judges your idea gets us closer to zero waste. Bhavishya and I pitched EcoGrid, an upcycled edge-compute micro-cloud that turns discarded phones and laptops into a liquid-cooled cluster for Edge AI. Two crises, one idea: the e-waste graveyard and the power drain of cloud data centers. 🌍
Gamma (deck)C orchestrator (proposed)WebAssemblyCfC neural networksTwo-phase immersion cooling - 05hackathonFeb 2026🫠 Not selected★ My first mobile app
HackSecure '26
NIT Hamirpur · Online round · NIT Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh · online · Online submission round
- Track
- Lightweight mobile network traffic analyser
- Built
- Liquid Defense
The problem: an Android app that captures and explains network traffic per app, with no root access. Our answer was Liquid Defense, an on-device firewall where a continuous-time "liquid" neural network watches the rhythm between packets and a C++ tap reads them straight off the VPN. It was my first mobile app. We didn't make it past the online round, and the trip to NIT Hamirpur stayed a daydream.
Android (Java)C++ / JNIVpnServicePyTorchCfC liquid neural networkONNX Runtime - 04hackathonFeb 2026Participant★ First all-nighter
AI for Sustainability Hackathon 2026
Canadian University Dubai · American Society for Engineers · Online · Canadian University Dubai, UAE · online · 3 days
- Team
- Evolve AI — with Piyush Sharma, Bhavishya Grover, Karunika Chaudhary, Anayat Virk, Deepanshu Arora
- Role
- Backend, cloud & strategy
- Track
- Forest fire detection & prevention
- Built
- Fractal Fire Mamba
The hackathon where we went properly deep into research. We built Fractal Fire Mamba, a forest fire detection network that uses state space models and chaos theory to tell a real fire from fog, dust or car exhaust, and keeps alerting even after the fire destroys nodes. We did it on our first all-nighter, half asleep in the university library.
Mamba SSMPyTorchFastAPINumPy & SciPyOpenCVLeaflet.jsChart.jsLoRa meshIridium satelliteRaspberry Pi - 03competitionDec 2025Participant★ Christmas Eve
NeuraCode 1.0: Where Logic Meets Glory
BE CSE-AIML · Chitkara ACM Chapter · CodeQuotient · Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab · in person
- Track
- Logic & problem solving
Christmas Eve 2025, spent doing what I love: coding. NeuraCode 1.0 was a logical coding competition where the language was up to you, Python, C, C++ or Java, as long as you solved the questions. An intense session, and a good way to wrap up the year. 🎄
- 02hackathonOct 2025🫠 Not selected★ My first SIH
Smart India Hackathon 2025
SIH 2025 · University internal round · Chitkara University, Punjab · in person · Internal round
- Track
- Panchakarma patient management
- Built
- AyurSutra
My second hackathon and my first shot at Smart India Hackathon. We pitched AyurSutra, a platform for Panchakarma therapy centres, in the university's internal round and didn't make the cut. It's also the hackathon where an AI tool built our whole app in minutes, and changed how I think about building.
Django 5Django REST FrameworkSQLiteTailwind CSSJavaScriptGoogle Gemini - 01hackathonSept 2025🎯 Finalist★ My first hackathon
HackNexus 1.0
Chitkara University · CRO · ACM India · Chitkara University, Punjab · in person · 3 rounds
- Team
- Beginner's Luck — with Piyush Sharma (Lead), Bhavishya Grover, Krishna Bansal, Vansh Kaushal
- Track
- Smart & sustainable cities
- Built
- EcoCity Connect
My very first hackathon. Five first-timers called Beginner's Luck pitched, built and defended EcoCity Connect — one app for a smarter, greener city — across three rounds, all the way to the finale.
HTML5Tailwind CSSJavaScriptLeaflet.js
