• 🎓 B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering @ IIIT Agartala (CGPA: 8.25/10)
• 🐧 Linux Foundation LiFT Scholar 2026 (Awarded Shubhra Kar Scholarship — Global Top 500)
• 🌍 UN Open Science Week (Top 300 Globally, UN HQ, NY) & Flipkart GRiD 7.0/8.0 Semifinalist (Top 5% of 400,000+)
• 🚀 Building High-Concurrency Distributed Systems, RAG Architectures & Cloud-Native Platforms
• 🌐 Active Open-Source Contributor across CNCF (Prometheus, Knative, Cilium) & Govt. of India (OpenForge)
• 👥 GDG Open Source Lead & ICPC AlgoQueen Mentor at IIIT Agartala
• 💬 Ask me about System Design, Distributed Caching, C++, Go, MERN, WebSockets & Vector Search
• 📫 Reach me at: shivam10palpal@gmail.com
• ⚡ Fun fact: I turn complex system bottlenecks into low-latency, scalable microservices

Contributed official system architecture and technical documentation to the Government of India OpenForge platform for APAAR (Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry) under the Ministry of Education.

• APAAR Authentication Pipeline & Security Overview
• APAAR Core System Architecture & Service Communication
• OpenForge National Technical Workshop Outcomes Summary
• State-wise Technical Workshop Outcome Pages (Arunachal, HP, MP, Rajasthan, Sikkim)

• 📂 GitHub Repository: gov-openforge-contributions
• ✅ Public Verification (OpenForge Wiki): OpenForge Wiki Verification

⚡ Keep coding, keep building, and keep scaling 🚀