Current
Current
Vice President
Open Source Community, VIT-AP
Leading and contributing across multiple student technical projects while helping shape the engineering direction and execution of the community.
Portfolio / 2026
Izhaan Raza
Backend systems developer building automation, infrastructure, and security-oriented platforms.
I work across backend engineering, AI-agent tooling, workflow automation, technical operations, and systems-heavy project work. My current direction is centered on real execution, observability, distributed control, and infrastructure that can hold up in live environments rather than just demos.
Snapshot
Education
B.Tech, CSE (AI/ML) — VIT-AP University · 2024-2028
Now building
Aterus-Q-VPN — a post-quantum VPN with a hand-written stream multiplexer core.
Core stack
Python · TypeScript · Rust · Go · C
I work across backend engineering, AI-agent tooling, workflow automation, technical operations, and systems-heavy project work. My current direction is centered on real execution, observability, distributed control, and infrastructure that can hold up in live environments rather than just demos.
Roles and record
Work that puts me on the hook for execution.
I am drawn to roles where the responsibility is not just shipping code, but making systems, teams, and event infrastructure actually work when people depend on them — the record below, current roles back to first ones.
2026
2026
Infrastructure Lead
RECON
Led infrastructure for a 3-day DEFCON-style event and built KoTH Orchestrator as the competition platform backbone.
2025 - Present
2025 - Present
Technical Engineer
Prayanaa
Contributing to technical assets, platform work, and workflow improvements for events and initiatives.
2025 - Present
2025 - Present
Lead Full-Stack Engineer
Vectr
Working across implementation, creative execution, and structured delivery for student technical work.
2024
2024
Winner, OJAS Technical Fest hackathon
NIT Jamshedpur
Won a national-level hackathon with a Web3-based peer-to-peer social networking project.
2022
2022
Atal Tinkering Lab
Secretary
Served as Secretary and received Best Innovation Prize in robotics work.
Current focus
What I am actively exploring and building.
The point is not to chase domains for their own sake. I care about systems that can be operated, debugged, and extended with less hand-waving.
01
RTL and FPGA development
Moving down the stack into hardware description: writing RTL, reasoning about timing and pipelining, and bringing designs up on FPGA rather than stopping at simulation.
02
Post-quantum transport
Building a VPN around post-quantum signatures and a hand-written flow-control protocol, where throughput is won by fixing windowing rather than adding threads.
03
Leadership through infrastructure
Taking ownership of systems that teams and events depend on, not just isolated project code.
04
Network reasoning
Learning subnetting, reachability analysis, segmentation, and practical diagnostics through controlled labs and authorized campus work.
05
Systems tooling
Using Rust, Go and C for CLI utilities, monitoring tools, and developer-facing workflow improvements.
Capabilities
Technical depth across software, systems, and infrastructure.
Backend engineering
PythonFastAPIFlaskREST APIsrequest flowsvalidationpersistence
Edge and serverless
Cloudflare WorkersD1WranglerZero Trust AccessTunnelsrate limitingstatic-first delivery
Automation and agents
n8nLangChainAutoGentool callingmemory layersworkflow orchestration
Infrastructure and operations
DockerLinuxWSLHAProxyCaddyNetdatadeployment validationremote orchestration
Security and networking
Post-quantum signaturesKoTH platformsidentity-gated accesstoken hashingnetwork diagnosticsobservability
Hardware and RTL
Verilog and SystemVerilogFPGA bring-upsimulation and testbenchestiming and pipelining
Delivery and testing
GitHub Actions CI/CDheadless-browser end-to-end suitestyped content pipelinesschema migrations
IoT and embedded systems
ESP32Raspberry Pisensorshardware-backed systemsedge-to-backend integration
Languages and storage
PythonTypeScriptJavaRustGoPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisSQLiteSupabasepgvector
Selected work
Projects that reflect where my work is heading.
I am prioritizing projects that show architecture, control, integration, and operational thinking instead of one-off demos.
Featured
Aterus-Q-VPN
Core source private
Post-quantum VPN for enterprise access management. A C core terminates TCP locally through a userspace network stack behind a virtual adapter, then carries every flow over one ML-KEM and Falcon protected tunnel through a hand-written stream multiplexer — which exists precisely because a post-quantum handshake per flow would never survive a browser. A Workers and D1 control plane handles orgs, devices, enrollment and egress policy, and releases are Falcon-512 signed against a key compiled into the agent.
C11Post-Quantum CryptolwIPCloudflare WorkersD1
Featured
KoTH Orchestrator
Distributed cyber-competition platform with a referee-managed control plane, replicated challenge rounds, quorum-based scoring, and deployment plus vulnerability validation tooling.
PythonFastAPIDockerHAProxyParamiko
Featured
Centers of Excellence Platform
Co-built with one collaborator · source private
Content platform for a university research division. The public site is compiled to fully static output and reads no database at request time; a Cloudflare Worker and D1 review queue sit beside it, turning Google Form submissions into validated, typed content and shipping an approved batch as a single commit rather than one build per change.
TypeScriptSolidJSCloudflare WorkersD1GitHub Actions
Featured
Zero-Trust Homelab Platform
Self-hosted server published entirely through a Cloudflare Tunnel behind identity-gated policies. SSH, BMC, Git hosting and CI each sit behind Zero Trust access, with a Caddy-fronted dashboard exposing Netdata telemetry and a sandboxed browser terminal. Nothing is bound to the LAN and no ports are forwarded.
Cloudflare TunnelZero TrustCaddyNetdataLinux
Private / not published
Featured
Tool-Based AI Agent
Local-first agent architecture built around structured tool execution, Obsidian memory, WSL interoperability, and reasoning-to-execution separation.
PythonWSLObsidianTailscaleLLM Tools
Private / not published
Featured
VISU-X
Multimodal backend for a humanoid assistant, combining audio, memory, and model-driven interaction with structured backend pipelines.
FastAPIWhisperGroqSupabasepgvector
Private / not published
Additional work
University Mail Summary Agent
Event-driven email summarization workflow that filters academic mail, generates summaries, and triggers cross-platform notifications.
n8nGeminiPub/SubOAuth
P.E.S.R.S. EV Slot Booking
Backend application for EV slot booking with request validation, booking flows, and Dockerized deployment.
FlaskMongoDBDocker
Pollution Data Rover
Sensor-backed environmental monitoring system that combines Raspberry Pi ingestion with pollution mapping using GPS-tagged readings.
PythonRaspberry PiSensorsGPS