About Pratham Raj
Pratham Raj is a B.Tech Electrical Engineering student at the National Institute of Technology Patna (NIT Patna), graduating in 2027. Over the past two years, Pratham Raj has shipped full-stack products, built systems-level C++ tools, and mentored 500+ students in data structures and algorithms.
Pratham Raj enjoys problems where algorithms meet real users — campus marketplaces, vector search engines, and packet inspection tools. When not building, Pratham Raj competes on LeetCode and Codeforces or mentors through NSS Sankalp at NIT Patna.
- 1500+ DSA problems solved across LeetCode, Codeforces, CodeChef, and GeeksforGeeks
- 2000+ LeetCode rating — Knight badge
- NIT Patna — Electrical Engineering, Class of 2027
- 500+ students mentored
Projects by Pratham Raj
NIT Patna Marketplace
Full-stack campus marketplace built by Pratham Raj on the MERN stack with JWT auth, OTP-verified @nitp.ac.in signup, and role-based access for 1,000+ NIT Patna students. Features Resend API & OTP verification, Cloudinary CDN image pipeline, and PWA chat with read receipts.
Tech: React, Node.js, MongoDB | GitHub | Live
VectorForge — C++ Vector DB & RAG
Multi-threaded vector database built by Pratham Raj with HNSW, KD-Tree, and brute-force K-NN search. Local RAG pipeline via Ollama with a 15-route REST API. Features HNSW graph (M=16, efsearch=50), Ollama embeddings + Llama 3.2, and PCA scatter-plot visualization.
Tech: C++17, HNSW, RAG | GitHub
NetSentry — Deep Packet Inspection
Multi-threaded DPI engine built by Pratham Raj, parsing PCAP captures, inspecting TCP/UDP payloads at Layer 4–7, and extracting TLS SNI to classify encrypted traffic. 100% blocking accuracy on test PCAPs.
Tech: C++17, libpcap, Multi-threading | GitHub
Interactive Question Sheet
SPA built by Pratham Raj during his InternPe internship for managing programming questions by topic and subtopic with drag-and-drop and progress tracking.
Tech: React 19, Zustand, Tailwind | GitHub
Experience of Pratham Raj
Web Developer Intern — InternPe (May 2026 – Jul 2026)
Pratham Raj built the Interactive Question Sheet SPA with React 19, Zustand, and @dnd-kit. Deployed on Vercel with Firebase auth and localStorage persistence.
Campus Ambassador — HackerRank & GeeksforGeeks (2024 – Present, NIT Patna)
Pratham Raj organized DSA workshops and competitive programming sessions, mentoring peers in algorithmic thinking and contest preparation at NIT Patna.
Educational Volunteer — NSS Sankalp (2024 – Present, NIT Patna)
Pratham Raj instructed 500+ students through community-driven educational outreach programs at NIT Patna.
Technical Contributor — Google Developer Student Clubs (2024 – Present, NIT Patna)
Pratham Raj collaborated on open-source software solutions and developer community initiatives at GDSC NIT Patna.