Monash University
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
2023 - 2027
Shaunak Gadkari
Medical student & developer from Melbourne
About me
Hi, I'm Shaunak, a medical student and self-taught developer. I'm super interested in the intersection of medicine with AI and robotics.
Currently, my goal is to write a blog post every two days. This is going , because I've written words in the last week. Most recently, I wrote about — see all my writing.
Education
in progress
Clayton, Victoria
in progress
LaTrobe University
Master of Artificial Intelligence
2025 - 2027 cGPA: 4.0
Master of Artificial Intelligence
2025 - 2027 cGPA: 4.0
Online
CSE4DBF
CSE4004
CSE4IP
Database Fundamentals (Completed Term 5 2025)
DB architecture & management. Relational algebra, ER diagrams, SQL & normalisation.
(click to view handbook)
Cyber Security Principles (Term 2 2026)
Principles, strategies, and future directions of cyber security. Information security, ethical practices, mitigating vulnerabilities, incident response.
(click to view handbook)
Introduction to Programming (Term 2 2026)
Designing and creating software solutions. Analysis, algorithm design, and writing program source code using Python.
(click to view handbook)
John Monash Science School
Victorian Certificate of Education
2020 - 2022
Victorian Certificate of Education
2020 - 2022
Clayton, Victoria
Projects
- Scalpel, a comprehensive resource for medical students on their surgery rotation. Contains procedure descriptions, guides, anatomical images and answers to common questions.
- Cardz, a flashcard and quiz generation website that uses machine learning to generate flashcards with a single click.
- SixtySecondShell, a programming education tool that allows users 60 seconds to use the terminal in an arbitrary programming language.
- DevPlatform, an internal tooling system that allows for the creation of development environments with an integrated IDE, accessible through any browser.
- Ultramarine, an end-to-end encrypted ephemeral chat application.
- Notion Reading List, an integration for Notion to manage a bookshelf and reading list, with automatically updating metadata and cover images. Used hundreds of times and adapted into variations.
- This site, a personal portfolio. It has an interactive canvas in the background where visitors can draw anything. Source code: frontend and backend.
Skills
Languages
- JavaScript (ES6+) - both front-end and back-end (node.js, etc)
- Python - for data science/machine learning as well as web services
- Go - web services and CLIs
- HTML and CSS - for front-end development
Frameworks
- React - front end UI
- Svelte - front end UI
- Next.js - full stack web applications
- Flask (Python) - web services and frameworks