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Year
2024
Tech & Technique
Kotlin, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Cloudflare, Tailwind CSS
Description
Campus Hustle is a student-run marketplace platform I co-founded to help student entrepreneurs launch, manage, and grow their businesses directly on campus. The platform connects buyers and sellers through storefronts, event listings, campus-wide discovery, and real-time communication channels - all optimized for student speed, trust, and mobility.
Key Features:
Technical Highlights:
Key Features:
- 🏪 Instant Shop Creation: Students launch storefronts in under 2 minutes
- 💬 Shop Chat Channels: Built-in messaging to build trust + close orders faster
- 🔄 Distributed Event Pipeline: Real-time order + notification routing via Kafka
- 🛍️ Multi-Category Listings: Goods, digital services, pop-up events, and more
- 📱 Mobile-First Experience: Designed for quick transactions between classes
- 🔐 Smart Risk + Access Controls: Rate-limiting + secure session verification
Technical Highlights:
- Event-Driven Architecture: Designed a Kafka-based microservice pipeline that processes 10K+ asynchronous events per week
- High-Reliability Cloud Deployment: Built on AWS with VPC isolation, autoscaling groups, IAM policy controls, and Cloudflare edge routing
- Database Performance Optimization: Indexed PostgreSQL schema + efficient query patterns for fast product and vendor search
- Resilience & Security: Achieved 99.98% uptime, with fallback failover logic and proactive monitoring
- Latency Optimization: Cloudflare CDN delivery and request caching improved load speeds by 30% campus-wide
My Role
Co-Founder • Technical Product Manager • Full-Stack Engineer
From strategy → architecture → rollout, I owned:
Product Strategy:
From strategy → architecture → rollout, I owned:
Product Strategy:
- Conducted user discovery interviews with 40+ student sellers
- Defined core feature launch priorities
- Designed distributed architecture for reliability, load distribution, and real-time updates
- Implemented Kotlin services, API Gateway, event streaming, and PostgreSQL data models
- Built seller dashboards, product flows, and messaging UI in React + Tailwind
- Set up AWS infrastructure, SSL routing, CI/CD pipelines, and uptime monitoring
- Secured university support, organized campus rollout, managed merchant onboarding
Case Study Impact
Problem: Student entrepreneurs lacked a central platform to sell on campus — transactions happened through DMs, group chats, and word-of-mouth, making discovery, reliability, and follow-through inconsistent.
Solution: Built a trusted, real-time marketplace that standardizes storefront visibility, communication, and campus-wide discovery — optimized for the pace of student life.
Outcome:
Solution: Built a trusted, real-time marketplace that standardizes storefront visibility, communication, and campus-wide discovery — optimized for the pace of student life.
Outcome:
- ✅ Onboarded 100+ entrepreneurs across 3 campuses
- ✅ Facilitated 300+ verified buyer transactions and interactions
- ✅ Secured $10K in grant funding + institutional backing
- ✅ Recognized in pitch competitions and innovation showcases
