Overview

A production web platform built to run the digital side of SMUCT CSE Fest v3.0 – from participant registration to submissions, payments, judging, and result publication.

#The Challenge

The festival involved multiple competitions with different eligibility rules, team structures, registrations, payments, submissions, and administrative workflows. Managing these manually would have created unnecessary coordination and data-entry overhead.

The goal was to bring the core event workflow into one reliable platform for both participants and organizers.

#What I Built

• Competition discovery with eligibility, rules, schedules, and event details
• Participant and team registration workflows
• Eligibility-aware registration experience
• Submission management for participating teams
• Payment and verification workflows
• Admin dashboard for registrations, teams, payments, and submissions
• Judging and score management with result publication
• Authentication with separate participant, coordinator and admin access
• Responsive interface designed for students and organizers

#My Role

As Lead Developer, I worked across the frontend, backend integration, database workflows, authentication, and production deployment.

#Production

This was my first real production application – deployed on a university VM and used by actual participants and organizers during the festival.

I handled production deployment with Next.js, Nginx, Supabase, SSL, and Windows services, while troubleshooting authentication, reverse-proxy, deployment, and server issues during the event.

#Outcome

The platform became the central digital workflow for the festival's registration and submission process, replacing several manual processes with a single system built for real users and real event constraints.

#What I Learned

The project pushed me beyond writing application code into production engineering – deployment, infrastructure, authentication, debugging, reliability, and operating software under real-world pressure.