community leadership & competitive honors

EXPERIENCE

Balancing independent software engineering with active campus leadership. Here is how I direct web teams, organize hackathons for over a hundred students, and compete in technical project expos.

● TechSpark Technical Club● 100+ Hackathon Participants Directed● Pune, India

Leadership Roles

Leadership & Engineering

Head of Web Development

TechSpark Technical Club, MSSU Pune

2024 to Present

Direct technical web initiatives, manage technical deployments, and organize hackathons and engineering workshops for university students.
Lead and mentor a team of junior student developers in modern web engineering, Git workflows, and production deployment standards.
Architected event registration platforms and digital showcase portals handling hundreds of concurrent student submissions.

Club Leadership

Web Development Co-Head

TechSpark Technical Club, MSSU Pune

2023 to 2024

Co-led the technical club's digital presence and collaborated on university event platforms and promotional web tools.
Conducted introductory coding bootcamps on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React for incoming freshmen.

Honors & Competitions

2025

1st Place — University-Level Hackathon

Ratan Tata Maharashtra State Skills University

2025

1st Place — Center-Level Hackathon

TechSpark Regional Innovation Center

2025

1st Place — University Project Expo (Krypton)

MSSU Pune Annual Project Showcase

2026

3rd Place — Ideation Competition 3.0 (AstroPixel)

University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Cell

Physical trophies and signed certificates awarded to Jayant Potdar at MSSU — Foundation Day Week Trophies & Certificates 📜

Physical Evidence

Tangible University Awards & Official Merit Certificates

Photographed trophies from Maharashtra State Skills University (MSSU) Foundation Day Week 2025: 1st Prize in Project Expo, 2nd Prize in UX Game Forage, and official Certificates of Appreciation signed by university administration.

Industry Certifications