Kolkata · 2026

Hi, I'm Pratz

CS undergrad. Full-stack builder. I make things that work and things that feel good.

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A bit about myself

5th sem IT student from Kolkata. I build full-stack applications — backends that scale, frontends that look good.

Recently: built a voice-first "Ambient Intelligence" system for retail stores (DataTalk AI) which ranked in top 50 nationwide, built PayPal Pact (an autonomous AI-arbitrated escrow platform using PayPal's AUTHORIZE intent & Celery), architected a KIVI-inspired INT8 KV cache quantization engine in PyTorch (reducing GPT-2 footprint by 68.5%), shipped Ninja Tag (a real-time 1v1 multiplayer browser game using WebSockets), and co-built a CTF site for IEEE TechWeek.

WebSockets· PyTorch· React· Next.js· Django· Celery· Redis· Node.js· Python· Java· Git· TailwindCSS·

What I work with

Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • C

AI / ML

  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face
  • LLM Optimization

Backend

  • Django / DRF
  • Celery / Redis
  • Node.js / Express
  • WebSockets
  • REST APIs

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML / CSS

Tools

  • Git / GitHub
  • Azure
  • Vercel / Render

Featured work

A selection of projects that showcase my skills and creativity

02
Django REST Next.js PayPal API Celery Redis

PayPal Pact

DRF · Next.js · PayPal API · Celery · Redis

Architected a secure, autonomous escrow platform integrating a Celery-driven LLM verification pipeline and PayPal webhooks to execute atomic financial settlements based on deterministic payload validation, adversarial prompt defenses, and a tamper-proof audit ledger.

03
Python PyTorch Hugging Face LLM Optimization

KV Cache Quantization

Python · PyTorch · Hugging Face Transformers · GPT-2 Optimization

Architected a custom inference engine in PyTorch with a KIVI-inspired INT8 quantization pipeline, bypassing model.generate() for manual token-by-token cache management. Reduced GPT-2 KV cache footprint by 68.5% with only a 0.71% increase in perplexity, implementing flexible symmetric/asymmetric quantization schemes across whole-tensor, per-channel, and per-token granularities.

04
WebSockets Node.js React Multiplayer

Ninja Tag

React · Node.js · WebSockets · Vite · Render · Vercel

Real-time 1v1 multiplayer browser game with room-based matchmaking. Implemented 60 Hz client prediction and server reconciliation with sequenced inputs, ACKs, and deterministic movement. Engineered a fixed-timestep 20 Hz authoritative server with room isolation, input validation, and automated integration tests.

05
CTF Interactive Web Team

IEEE TechWeek — The Last Broadcast

Vanilla JS · CTF · IEEE TechWeek 2025 · Team of 5

Co-built a multi-challenge CTF event site for IEEE Manipal's TechWeek as part of a 5-person team. I implemented multiple clues including the dystopian bookshelf puzzle (an immersive drag-drop challenge) and the audio steganography clue, where hidden messages were encoded in spectrograms and surfaced only through developer tools.

Recognition

Microsoft

AI Unlocked – Campus Edition

Selected for the Top 50 Prototype League out of 300+ teams nationwide with DataTalk AI.

2025

Let's connect

I'm open to internships, collaborations, and interesting problems.

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