Hey hey 👋
My name is Soumya Ranjan Mohanty a.k.a geekySRM on the web.
I'm a Software Engineer II at Microsoft, technical writer and a Google certified Mobile and Web Specialist.
I am also a technical speaker having spoken at meetups and conferences. Most recent one was at React Nexus 2025.
My Passion
I absolutely love to build.
Products, apps, websites, tech demos — I love using my technical skills to build cool & interesting things.
I also create tech and other content on my YouTube channel. I write technical articles on my blog and other technical publications.
My core competency is full stack development - mainly frontend.
I dabble in technologies like - React.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Next.js, Node.js, Databases (SQL and NoSQL like MongoDB), DSA.
Combining this passion with the right team and problem space is where you'll find me at my absolute best.
I have participated and won in various hackathons all around the world. Few of them include Microsoft Hackathon (Best Problem Solver Award), Microsoft AI Code Challenge 2025, CoinSwitch’s Building Future Cities Hackathon, Auth0 Global hackathon, UtkalHacks 2019, Philips Code2Care, NEC Hackathon.
Bio
I grew up in India and fell in love with programming during my middle school. I was awarded the Best Boy award in my school.
I studied computer science at IIIT Bhubaneswar, and graduated with a Bachelors of Technology (BTech.) degree. I was awarded the Google India Scholarship in 2018.
I am currently working as a Software Engineer with Microsoft. I also love mentoring and guiding people early in their career.
In the past, I've worked as a software engineer at Jones Lang Lasalle, Dell, Hasura and interned with a few other startups.
Here are some of the more noteworthy products that I've built and/or founded:
- Hashnode to Twitter: This app helps you to post bite-sized tweets of your Hashnode blog posts to increase reach 🚀 🚀. I am planning to make it work for Dev.to, Medium, FreeCodeCamp articles too.
- UnBlur Quora: With 1000+ users, this extension enables one to read Quora answers without signup.
- LeetCode Video Solutions: With 30000+ users, this extension lets you watch helpful video solutions of a LeetCode problem without leaving the problem page!
The best way to get in touch with me is to email soumyarnm[at]gmail.com.
For jobs, career, placement guidance or consulting, you can book a 1:1 video call with me.
Cheers 😊
Soumya
Made with 💕 in India.