About

Namaste!
I am Brijesh Chandrakar

Software EngineerIIT KanpurDurg, Chhattisgarh

I grew up in Dalli Rajhara, a small mining town in Chhattisgarh - ringed by jungle, clean water bodies, wildlife, desi varieties of fruits and vegetables, and good people.

I am a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in building web and mobile applications. I currently work at Hardskills where I tackle the whole stack - design, architecture, frontend, backend, operations and solving anything that needs solving. I hold a B.Tech–M.Tech dual degree from the Biological Sciences and Bioengineering department at IIT Kanpur, where I published research on metal-binding motifs in proteins.

Beyond work, I am an avid trekker with over a dozen Himalayan expeditions. Other pastimes include football, chess, cooking, and occasionally writing on various topics.

Experience

The path so far

  1. 5 years

    IIT Kanpur

    B.Tech–M.Tech dual degree in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering - and the protein research published along the way.

  2. 7 months

    Times Internet

    Software Engineer - the Android app of the Dineout business.

  3. 4 years

    SumTotal Systems

    Software Engineer - React Native and Ionic mobile apps, a .NET services stack, microservices and webhooks, while the company passed from Skillsoft to Cornerstone OnDemand.

  4. 1 year · now

    Hardskills

    Software Engineer - React, Django, and AI engineering, across the whole stack.

Made

Building things
outside work

Knowledge Base

Engineering Notes

A structured knowledge base for software engineering

Deep, durable notes built for long-term retention - organised into parts and chapters covering topics ranging from computer science fundamentals to AI engineering, DevOps, case studies, worked problems and much more. Every topic is taught from first principles with analogies, diagrams, exercises, and cheatsheets, in a reading experience tuned for sticky, lasting learning.

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Claude Code Skills

Quiver

A curated skill suite for Claude Code

Twenty-one focused skills that extend Claude Code across development and design - code review, testing, debugging, refactoring, performance, and a full design suite. Each skill has a clear trigger and a defined output, with no overlap, so they compose into complete, end-to-end workflows.

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Contact

Write to me

Work, a collaboration, a trek route, or just a good idea - the inbox is open.

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