# Adith Manikonda: backend with taste

> Adith Manikonda is a backend engineer and systems builder studying Computer Science and Engineering at VIT Vellore, India. This is the homepage of adith.xyz, Adith's official website.

Page: https://adith.xyz
Author: [Adith Manikonda](https://adith.xyz/about.md) (https://adith.xyz)
Last updated: 2026-11-11

Pressure tested builds with clean internals. Open to internships.

## About

Adith works on the parts of software that have to hold up under load: databases and query engines, real-time backends, observability and reliability tooling, and the embedded hardware where software meets the physical world.

More: [About Adith Manikonda](https://adith.xyz/about.md)

## Skills

- Backend: Node.js, FastAPI, Express, Go, Prisma, Redis, RabbitMQ
- Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, DuckDB
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, Sentry, OpenTelemetry
- Hardware: Embedded systems, Microcontrollers, Sensors, I2C, SPI, UART
- Languages: Python, JavaScript, Go, C, SQL

Spoken languages: English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, French.

## Experience

- **Technical Head, Mozilla Firefox Club, VIT Vellore** (Jan 2026 to present): Leads technical initiatives and open-source programs, mentors teams and designs resilient systems.
- **Open Source Contributor, GirlScript Summer of Code (GSSoC'26)** (2026 to present): Community work, documentation and fixes.
- **Research Intern, IIT Hyderabad** (Dec 2025 to Jan 2026): Database optimization, data pipelines and system tooling.
- **Software Development Intern, Matrix Capital** (May 2025 to Jun 2025): Built research infrastructure for scalable systems, with web and API improvements and cross-team delivery.

## Featured projects

- [Morph Environment Bug Reproduction Platform](https://adith.xyz/projects/morph.md) (2026): Reproduces the machine a bug happened on: capture a user's CPU, memory, locale and network conditions as a profile, replay them somewhere else, and keep the cause as a regression test.
- [AetherQuery Analytical Query Engine](https://adith.xyz/projects/aetherquery.md) (2026): Cross-database analytical query engine supporting DuckDB/PostgreSQL/MySQL with adaptive execution.
- [archAIc Reliability Engineering Platform](https://adith.xyz/projects/archaic.md) (2026): Distributed reliability engineering platform with observability, metrics, tracing, and anomaly detection.
- [Renderd: Use a Windows PC as a Second Monitor for a Mac](https://adith.xyz/projects/renderd.md) (2026): Free, open source app that turns a Windows PC into a second display for a Mac, peer to peer over QUIC with hardware encode and decode.

All 40 projects: [Project archive](https://adith.xyz/projects.md)

## Patents

- [A System for Real Time Environmental Perception and Assistance for a Visually Impaired User](https://adith.xyz/patents/visual-assistance-system.md): Indian patent application 202641010249, filed 31 Jan 2026, published 13 Feb 2026.
- [Wave Energy Generator Electrical Circuit with Maximum Power Point Tracking and IoT Telemetry System](https://adith.xyz/patents/wave-energy-generator.md): Indian patent application 202641032830, filed 18 Mar 2026, published 18 Mar 2026.

## Hackathons and awards

### Hackathons

- Women Techies'26 - Finalist, Top 10 Teams, VIT Vellore (Mar 2026)
- TechSolstice, MIT Bangalore (Mar 2026)
- Code 2 Create (C2C) - AI Track Winner, VIT Vellore (Sep 2025)
- Women Techies'25, VIT Vellore (Apr 2025)
- Yantra Central Hack, VIT Vellore (Jan 2025)
- DevJams, VIT Vellore (Sep 2024)
- CodeWars - 1st Place, NPS KRM, Bangalore (Feb 2024)

### Awards and certifications

- Best Writeup Award - z0d1ak CTF, z0d1ak (2026)
- Top 15 Finalist - z0d1ak CTF, z0d1ak (2026)
- AI Track Winner - Code 2 Create (C2C) (2025)
- 100% Attendance Award, Vellore Institute of Technology (2024-25)
- OCI Foundations Certification (2025)
- SQL Basic Certification (2025)
- SQL Intermediate Certification (2025)
- PC Building Competition - Second Place (2023)

## Contact

- Email: hello@adith.xyz
- GitHub: https://github.com/Ad1th
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adith-manikonda/
- Website: https://adith.xyz