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DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India
DRDO-RAC
Smart India Hackathon 2024: National winner
AI-powered interview board selection for national officer recruitment.
Source restricted
Built inside a defence research environment. Implementation detail, interfaces, and source are not publishable.
- Role
- SDE Intern, R&D
- Period
- Jun 2025 to Oct 2025
- Status
- Restricted
- Stack
- PythonNode.jsPostgreSQLSecure deployment
01The problem
DRDO's Recruitment and Assessment Centre convenes interview boards at national scale. Composing those boards (matching subject expertise to candidate, while honouring availability and conflict-of-interest constraints) was a manual scheduling problem that grew faster than the people doing it.
02What I built
An AI-assisted selection system that proposes viable board compositions against the full constraint set, with secure backend services and internal tooling around it.
The work was as much translation as engineering: sitting with scientists, turning operational requirements into specifications that could actually be built, under the documentation and security practices a defence environment requires.
03Outcome
Deployed for DRDO-RAC and used against large-scale officer selection workflows.
The project went on to win Smart India Hackathon 2024, placing in the top 2.4% of more than 400,000 participants nationally.