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Hostel Management Platform

Collaborative SmartHack project for room allocation, complaints, and AI-assisted hostel support workflows.

Built as a collaborative hackathon project at SmartHack, with ownership split across the team.

Problem statement

Hostel workflows often get fragmented across spreadsheets, ad hoc messaging, and manual approval loops. The team built a central platform to streamline room allocation, complaints, and policy queries across student, warden, and admin roles.

My contributions

  • Worked on the full-stack product flow for role-based access across student, warden, and admin journeys.
  • Implemented secure JWT authentication with refresh-token support and helped shape 10+ REST endpoints for room allocation and complaint management.
  • Integrated real-time complaint notifications with Socket.IO to reduce lag in operational updates.
  • Contributed to the RAG-powered chatbot experience over a PostgreSQL knowledge base and supported the anonymous complaint flow using salted-hash identity preservation.

Tech stack

NestJSReact 19TypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismaSocket.IODockerGemini APIpgvector

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Final product visuals can be added here once the dashboard walkthrough and AI assistant demo assets are ready for publication.

Links

Public repository and demo links will be added here once the shareable project versions are ready.