Python • Django • FastAPI • React • PostgreSQL • OpenCV • YOLOv8 • DeBERTa-v3
🎓 Education — B.Tech Information Technology, Manipal University Jaipur · CGPA 8.62
🚀 Building now — SmartParkX, an AI-powered smart parking platform (Computer Vision + IoT + Backend)
🧠 Specialization — Computer Vision · NLP · REST API Design · Software Architecture
🌱 Learning — System Design · Distributed Systems · Docker · Cloud Deployment
🤝 Open to — Backend Engineering & SWE Internships · AI/ML Roles · Open Source
I build software where backend systems and applied AI meet — parking infrastructure that sees, review pipelines that reason, platforms that just work. My focus is computer vision and NLP wired into REST APIs that hold up outside a notebook.
I think in systems: how a vision model's output becomes an API contract, how a database schema survives concurrent writes, how a side project becomes something deployable. Five projects in, the throughline is the same — take a real constraint and engineer a working answer to it, not a prototype.
Right now I'm deepening system design and distributed systems fundamentals, and moving every project a step closer to how it would actually run in production.
| Domain | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | Python · JavaScript · C++ |
| Backend | Django · FastAPI · Node.js · Express |
| Frontend | React · HTML5 · CSS3 · Vite |
| Databases | PostgreSQL · MongoDB · MySQL |
| AI | PyTorch · OpenCV · YOLOv8 · DeBERTa-v3 · OCR |
| Tools | Git · GitHub · Docker · Linux · Postman |
| Domain | Level | Used In |
|---|---|---|
| 🧠 Computer Vision | Advanced | SmartParkX, Live ANPR |
| 💬 Natural Language Processing | Intermediate | DeceptiScan |
| ⚙️ Backend APIs | Advanced | SmartParkX, BorrowBox, Foodify |
| 🤖 Machine Learning | Intermediate | DeceptiScan, SmartParkX |
Five projects, one progression — from full-stack fundamentals to AI-driven systems with hardware in the loop.
An end-to-end platform that automates vehicle entry, slot allocation, billing, and exit — combining Computer Vision, IoT, and a modular backend with minimal human intervention.
System Workflow
Vehicle Arrival
→ ANPR Camera (ESP32-CAM)
→ YOLOv8 Plate Detection + OCR
→ Django REST Backend
→ Parking Engine / Slot Manager / Billing Engine
→ PostgreSQL
→ React Dashboard
Engineering Highlights
| Area | Implementation |
|---|---|
| Computer Vision | ANPR via YOLOv8 + OpenCV |
| Backend | Django REST Framework — sessions, vehicles, payments |
| IoT | ESP32-CAM + slot sensors for real-time monitoring |
| Billing | Automated duration-based billing engine |
| Dashboard | React interface for live slot availability |
| Security | JWT auth + role-based access control |
Each subsystem — vision, sensors, backend, billing, frontend — runs independently and communicates over REST, so the platform scales and fails gracefully one piece at a time.
A browser extension that pairs a fine-tuned transformer with a FastAPI inference service to flag fake and AI-generated product reviews — with an explainable trust score, not just a sentiment label.
Inference Pipeline
Amazon Product Page
→ Browser Extension (React)
→ Review Scraper
→ Preprocessing
→ Fine-Tuned DeBERTa-v3
→ Trust Score
→ Analytics Dashboard
Model Performance
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Dataset | 72,877 labeled reviews |
| Model | Fine-tuned DeBERTa-v3 |
| Accuracy | 96.8% |
| Latency | ~12 ms / batch |
| Deployment | FastAPI inference server |
📷 Live ANPR — Real-time license plate recognition
Real-time number plate detection and logging from live camera streams using YOLOv8, OpenCV, and Tesseract OCR.
Stack: Python · YOLOv8 · OpenCV · Tesseract OCR Repo: github.com/KartikChouhan03
📦 BorrowBox — Peer-to-peer campus rental platform
A modular rental platform with secure authentication, listings, and transaction management, built on Django REST Framework.
Stack: Django REST Framework · PostgreSQL Repo: github.com/KartikChouhan03
🍔 Foodify — Full-stack food delivery platform
A MERN food delivery platform with JWT authentication, order management, payments, and an admin dashboard.
Stack: React · Node.js · Express · MongoDB Repo: github.com/KartikChouhan03
Project progression:
Foodify → BorrowBox → Live ANPR → DeceptiScan → SmartParkX
Full stack → backend architecture → computer vision → applied NLP → AI + IoT + backend, integrated.
Senior Coordinator — LearnIT Technical Club, Manipal University Jaipur · Sep 2023 – May 2025
Led technical workshops and hackathons for 200+ students, coordinating volunteers and faculty to run six major events end-to-end — from planning through execution.
- 5+ end-to-end software projects, spanning backend systems, computer vision, and applied NLP
- AI systems shipped to working demos — not just notebooks: SmartParkX (CV + IoT) and DeceptiScan (NLP)
- REST API design across Django and FastAPI, with auth, role-based access, and structured data models
- Technical leadership — ran 6+ workshops/hackathons for 200+ students as Senior Coordinator
Meta — Backend Developer Professional Certificate · Introduction to Back-End Development · Programming in Python · Django Web Framework
IBM — Data Analysis with Python · Python for Data Science
Oracle — Database Programming with SQL
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