Privacy, Cost, and Control: Why We Moved Away from Third-Party AI Services During my time working on a social media platform for kids, I was tasked with working on a service to moderate text messages. I briefly remember from one of our product meetings we discussed that the chat should have at least these functionalities for kids: auto-correction (just like Grammarly) and toxicity detection to make the platform safe for children to use. ...
My First Gig as a Software Engineer I still remember it clearly. After applying to around 500+ job postings on platforms like LinkedIn, Wellfound and Internshala, I could not land even one decent interview. It is a classic trap when you start your career: every internship requires experience, but you need an internship to get that experience. I was still studying at the time. While I stayed very active in college, learning React, Node.js, and full stack development by contributing to our annual fest website, it was not corporate experience. So, I kept getting rejected. But I kept trying. ...
Shortly after joining a Bangalore startup after college, due to my previous experience in working with auth systems, I was given the task to change the current auth system from admin-secret based to a token-based auth system. with our prod server having an active user base of 5000 plus users daily. Adding more spice to the curry, since the app is used by children, we don’t want them to be redirected to a login screen after the new auth system is implemented. The transition for auth in both our frontend and backend systems should happen frictionlessly without users even noticing. ...