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The hackathon that went to the final

At Smart India Hackathon 2023, the subject’s team took a cultural-heritage platform to the grand finale. The backend and the recommendation service were Rishi’s part of it.

By The Investigation Desk · 2023

Exhibit GFig. 1 — a hackathon build; no capture on file.

Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide hackathon, and in 2023 the subject’s team reached its grand finale with a platform for cultural heritage.

Rishi’s part of the build was the backend: a Node.js and Express service, a FastAPI recommendation service alongside it, and contributions to the React frontend.

“Grand finalist, Smart India Hackathon 2023.”

It is the earliest exhibit in the file, entered during a B.Tech in Computer Science at Chandigarh Engineering College — and the first appearance of a pattern the later exhibits repeat: the subject working on the parts of a system nobody sees.