Hi, I'm Mansi 👋 I did my B.Tech in Electronics & Communication at IET Lucknow, taught myself software, and spent three years at Standard Chartered Bank in Bangalore as a Senior Development Engineer. Along the way I picked up the unglamorous but career-defining things: microservices, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD. I’ve worked with a wide range of technologies including: Languages: Java, Python, SQL, C++ Backend & Architecture: Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, Spring Modulith, ArchUnit, Drools, Multithreading Messaging & Caching: Kafka, Solace, Redis AI & ML: LangChain, RAG, Embeddings, Vector Search, LLM Applications, NLP, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn Databases & Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Parquet, MinIO Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Ansible, CI/CD, Git, HashiCorp Vault Right now I'm doing my MSc in Computer Science (Advanced Software Development) at TU Dublin, and I'm a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor with The Mifos Initiative / Apache Fineract, working on event-driven architecture in a real open-source codebase used by financial institutions worldwide. I'm AWS Cloud Practitioner certified. Things I get asked a lot, and genuinely enjoy answering: How do I actually get into GSoC? (Hint: it starts months before the proposal.) I'm from a non-CS branch — can I still get a software job? How do I make my first open-source contribution without feeling like an impostor? Java/Spring Boot backend roles: what to learn, in what order, and what interviews really test. Applying for a master's in Ireland/Europe — universities, funding, visas, and what it costs. My resume gets no callbacks. What's wrong with it? I'm not going to give you a generic roadmap you could have Googled. Bring your actual situation — your resume, your GitHub, the role you want — and we'll work backwards from it.