Adithyan P (LegitCoconut)
| Adithyan P | |
Adithyan P (LegitCoconut)
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| Also known as | LegitCoconut |
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| Education | Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (B.Tech CSE, in progress) |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Known for | CodeArena, research on cloud native attacks |
| mail.adithyanp@gmail.com | |
| Resume | Download (PDF) |
Adithyan P, also known as LegitCoconut, is a software engineer and computer science student at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. He works on full stack applications, AI agents, cloud infrastructure and embedded systems, and has built and delivered 12+ projects through internships and on his own.
He is the author of a research paper on a cloud native attack dataset and its visualization, published in the International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC), and the creator of CodeArena, an online coding platform.
Education
Adithyan is pursuing a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (Jul 2024 – Jul 2028), with a GPA of 7.92. He is a third-year student with an interest in software development, research and consulting.
Career
Software Development Intern, Cybervahak Consultants
From Jan 2026 to Nov 2026 he was a software development intern at Cybervahak Consultants Pvt Ltd, Mumbai. He built and tested full stack applications for enterprise customers to manage their online presence and digital security, covering EDR/XDR solutions, IT ticketing and management applications, and a finder for personal details exposed online. He deployed production-ready applications in private and air-gapped systems.
Leadership
Adithyan served as Secretary of the ACM Student Chapter at VIT Chennai. The chapter organized 10+ events with 2000+ participants across India and was recognized as Best Technical Chapter 25-26.
Projects
CodeArena
CodeArena (Jun 2026 – Aug 2026) is an online coding platform and learning management system. It is a full stack Next.js application with a code execution engine, AI evaluation, MOSS similarity checks, AI prompt-based questions, and an AI helper for writing questions and LMS material. It is built with Docker, pnpm and MongoDB, served through Cloudflare Tunnels and Nginx on a Linux server. 5+ events have been held on CodeArena with 500+ participants.
Entrance Exam Mock Test Platform
A set of web apps (Jan 2026 – Jul 2026), including VITEEE and JEE mock tests, giving students ad-free, fingerprinting-free mock tests for entrance exams. They use cached lookups for question metadata to reach sub-second latency, and have served 3M+ requests on Vercel and Cloudflare R2. Built with Next.js, R2, Redis and MongoDB.
Research and publications
Adithyan published a paper on a cloud native attack dataset and its visualization in IJCNC, a Scopus-indexed journal (index 0.423). Read the paper (PDF).
Skills
| Expertise | Software development (expert), research and development (expert), AI-based development (expert), DevOps (experienced) |
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| Stacks and tools | Next.js, FastAPI, Flask, Docker, Podman, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, AWS, Vercel, Redis, Nginx, Prisma |
| Languages | C, C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, R, MATLAB |
Languages
Malayalam (native), English (very good command), Hindi (highly proficient), Tamil (highly proficient).