📍 India | Software Engineer | Ex-Microsoft SWE Intern
📧 Email: tusharbhardwaj2617@gmail.com | 🌐 Portfolio: minianon.in

I build things I wish existed — from AI products and developer tools to resources that help people break into tech.

Currently: building AI-powered products, experimenting with new ideas, and sharing what I learn along the way.

• Weaave — Visual AI workflow builder for designing and running AI-powered automations
• ShortlistMe — AI-powered platform that turns resumes into personalized portfolio websites
• HireLens — AI-powered resume screening with candidate scoring and ranking
• MiniLink — Simple link-in-bio platform for creating and sharing personal pages
• MiniMock — Instant chat, social media, and AI mockup generator
• PulseAI Prep — AI-powered interview preparation with mock interviews and personalized feedback
• MiniRizz — AI wingman for crafting better replies and conversations
• AnonBeats — Personal, ad-free music player for uploading, organizing, and streaming tracks
• Canvas Editor — Minimal 2D canvas editor with instant cloud persistence
• Maze Solver — Interactive maze generator and solver with multiple algorithms

• Microsoft — Software Engineer Intern · GitHub
  Built distributed Kubernetes systems, including a sharded controller using consistent hashing for scalable workload distribution.

• Vitti Capital — Python Developer · GitHub
  Building trading infrastructure, automation, real-time systems, and internal platforms for financial operations.

• Writing — sharing interview experiences, engineering lessons, and things I learn on Medium
• Mentoring — mentored 500+ students through Topmate
• Community — built Mini Anon Job Alerts, now 2K+ students strong
• Building — constantly experimenting with AI-native products and new ideas

☕ Buy me a chai — If something I built or shared helped you, a chai keeps me building. ❤️

• How I Secured a Microsoft Software Engineer Internship (2025)
• Stripe Technical Team Screen Interview Experience
• CRED Backend Intern: Machine Coding Round Interview Experience
• Inside Eightfold.ai’s Agentic AI Internship Hiring Process (2026)
• Optum Data Engineering Interview Experience (Mumbai)
• Trilogy Innovations Winter Internship 2026: On-Campus Interview Experience

More writing on → Medium

• System Design - designing systems at scale and preparing for system design interviews
• Operating Systems (1Shot-OS) - OS fundamentals distilled for quick revision
• Database Systems (1Shot-DBMS) - DBMS concepts for interview preparation
• Computer Networks (1Shot-CN) - networking essentials in a one-shot format
• SQL (1Shot-SQL) - SQL concepts and patterns for interviews
• Object-Oriented Programming (1Shot-OOPS) - OOPS revision with C++ examples
• Most Common HR Interview Questions - behavioral questions and structured answers
• Resources for Senior Software Engineers - expectations, preparation, and growth
• LeetCode Questions (Company-wise) - curated problems by company
• GitHub Basics - practical Git & GitHub essentials

• Selected for Microsoft’s Software Engineer Internship through an off-campus process — my experience
• Featured twice at Times Square
• 26K+ followers on LinkedIn
• Top 0.1% mentor on Topmate, mentored 500+ students and counting
• Built the Mini Anon Job Alerts community, now 2K+ students strong
• Winner — SaaS Market Competition
• Runner-up — Vibeathon
• Contributed as a Problem Reviewer & Solution Author on LeetCode
• Worked with international clients

• Turn Your Resume Into a Live Portfolio (With Analytics) | ShortlistMe - ShortlistMe walkthrough of generating, customizing, and sharing a portfolio directly from a resume.
• Built a Better Linktree | MiniLink - MiniLink walkthrough, why it’s simpler to use, and the features it offers.

"Small steps, every day" - I build tools to solve my own problems, then share them with the world. Currently exploring how AI changes everything about software development.