Engineering × Product × Systems Thinking

📍 Chennai, India

Purab Jain

I am an Electrical and Electronics Engineering student who enjoys turning ideas into working experiences — from IoT prototypes and cloud tools to thoughtful interfaces and research-backed problem solving.

Now
Building
together.— startup app
Focus
IoT, cloud workflows, UI thinking
Studying
VIT Chennai · 6th Semester
Best recent win
Best Paper @ IEEE STPEC 2025
Reading
Project Hail Mary
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About

Building things that work and things that feel right.

4+Projects
1stIEEE Award
3Cloud Certs

I'm a 3rd-year EEE student at VIT Chennai — currently in my 6th semester — exploring the overlap between engineering fundamentals and modern product thinking.

I build things that span hardware and software: IoT systems that talk to the cloud, mobile apps with clean interfaces, and systems that make sense of raw signals.

When I'm not deep in circuits or code, I'm journaling, watching La Liga, hiking, or exploring Jain temple trails across South India.

What I believe
01
"Good design should feel inevitable — not clever."
02
"The best engineers understand what the user actually needs."
03
"Constraints are where the interesting problems live."
Toolkit
01Python · Java · C++
Programming
02AWS · Oracle Cloud
Cloud
03IoT · Embedded C · Arduino
Hardware
04UI/UX · User Research
Design
05MATLAB · Power Systems
Engineering
06LLM Prompting · AI Tools
AI
Selected Work
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01 / Featured🏆 IEEE Best Paper · STPEC 2025

Smart Irrigation System

IoT-based precision agriculture solution that automates water delivery based on live soil data.

  • Arduino + soil moisture sensors + solenoid valve control loop
  • Presented at 4th IEEE STPEC 2025 — awarded Best Paper
  • Designed for real-world agricultural deployment
ArduinoIoTSensorsAutomationIEEE
02

AutoHire Smart Resume Portal

Cloud-based resume upload portal using AWS with a cleaner and more secure user experience.

  • Used AWS S3, Lambda, and API Gateway
  • Focused on secure uploads and simple UI flow
AWS S3LambdaAPI GatewayUI Design
03

Pollution Detection System

Real-time air quality monitoring unit integrated with a mobile app for live data visualization.

  • Gas sensors tracking CO, CO₂, and PM2.5 levels
  • Wireless data transmission to backend API
  • Mobile app with real-time dashboard and alerts
Gas SensorsFlutterFlaskReal-time API
04

Accident Prevention System

Real-time obstacle detection system for vehicles — a low-cost safety solution using embedded hardware.

  • Arduino + ultrasonic sensors for proximity detection
  • Buzzer alerts scaled to distance — no screen required
ArduinoUltrasonicSafetyEmbedded C
💡More coming soon↗ GitHub
Journey
2023 – Present
VIT Chennai
B.Tech — Electrical & Electronics Engineering
3rd-year student exploring Power Systems Analysis, Embedded Systems, Renewable Energy, and IoT. Active IEEE research contributor.
Jan 2025
IEEE STPEC 2025
Best Paper Award 🏆
Paper on Smart Irrigation System awarded Best Paper at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy, and Control.
Sept – Oct 2025
Edunet Foundation
Virtual Intern — Conversational Data Analysis with LLMs
Built conversational AI pipelines using LLMs. Applied Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought prompting strategies.
Summer 2026
Ispat Company
Incoming Summer Intern — Industrial / Steel Sector
Confirmed internship applying core EEE knowledge in a real-world manufacturing and automation context.
Certifications
☁️
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI Foundations Associate
Oracle · 2025
☁️
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate
Oracle · 2025
🎨
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Google · UX Foundations & Process
💻
C, C++ & Python Training Certificate
IIT Bombay
🏆
IEEE Best Paper Award
STPEC 2025 · IEEE Conference
🤖
Conversational AI with LLMs
Edunet Foundation · 2025
Currently
🚀 Building
together.
startup app
📚 Reading
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
📺 Watching
Game of Thrones
Finally catching up
Following
La Liga & UCL
This season's a banger
Bookshelf

A few books that have genuinely changed how I think. Hover to see my take.

Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
The engineering problem-solving in this book is the most satisfying thing I've read.
📖 Currently reading
The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things
Now I can't use a bad door handle without getting mildly angry.
✅ Read
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits
The 1% rule hit different during exam prep. Small systems > big motivation.
✅ Read
Zero to One
Zero to One
Made me think about why I'm building things, not just how.
✅ Read
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Curiosity as a lifestyle — the best engineers are just relentlessly curious people.
✅ Read
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Specific knowledge and leverage — concepts I think about every time I pick a new skill.
📖 Reading
Thoughts

Short notes on tech, design, and figuring things out.

Mar 2026
Design

Good UI is invisible. You only notice it when it's missing — like a door with no handle. How it feels to use is also part of how it works.

Feb 2026
Engineering

Spent 3 hours debugging a sensor that was reading wrong. Turned out it was upside down. The lesson was to question your assumptions before touching the code.

Jan 2026
AI

LLMs are strange tools — the better your question, the better the answer. Good engineers have always known that framing the problem correctly is half the solution.

Dec 2025
Life

Visited the Jain temples in Thirumalai. There's something quietly powerful about spaces built to last centuries.

Let's build
something together.

Open to internship opportunities, collaborations,
and interesting conversations.