Oswald Shilo.
Oswald Shilo

Oswald Shilo

CS Student · Building systems that work.

Chennai, IndiaOpen to internships

Hackathons got me into building seriously. Now I build full-stack systems — serverless AWS backends,
cross-platform mobile apps, AI engineered-applications when something interesting enough comes along. Still figuring out the rest.
Currently a Software Engineer Intern at Thinkroot.

Who am I???
about

I'm Oswald Shilo — a Computer Science student at Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai.
Right now, I'm mostly figuring things out one project, one bad deployment, and one caffeine-fueled night at a time. I know I'm probably end up building things for a living — engineering just makes too much sense to me — but I'm still exploring what that actually looks like long term. For now, I'm focused on getting genuinely good at programming, systems, backend architecture, and problem solving instead of blindly depending on whatever the current AI trend is. If AI ever hits a slowdown, I still want to be the person who understands what is happening underneath the abstraction layer. Most days, I'm either building APIs, trying out mobile apps, experimenting with AI tools, or pretending my side projects are “almost production ready.” I like hackathons, fast execution, and people who ship things instead of talking about shipping things. Outside tech, I speak some German :)

2009 – 2023
St. Patrick's High School (ICSE)
ICSE Board · Chennai Foundation in sciences and humanities. Where it all started.
2023 – 2025
St. Patrick's Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School
Class XI & XII · Computer Science stream Deepened interest in programming and how systems work.
2025 – present
Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai
B.E. Computer Science · Building things that scale.
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experience

Thinkroot

Developer tooling & AI startup

Mar 2026 – Present

RoleSoftware Development Intern
TypeInternship · Remote

Contributing to frontend and backend feature development; analyzed codebase architecture and data flow. Working across the stack on features that ship to real users.

DeadEnd Engineers

Builder community for experimental software

Jan 2026 – Present

RoleFounding Member & Developer
TypeCo-founded

Co-founded a developer community building experimental, full-stack software projects with scalable backend architectures. A home for builders who care more about shipping than planning.

projects
github
competitive programming

LeetCode · Codeforces · problem solving stats and streaks.