hey, I’m

Safal Mutha

सफल(suh-fuhl)means successful. I’m working on earning the name.

Class 12 in Pune. I build software that quietly runs charities, clinics and classrooms, mostly in Java, since I was twelve.

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Built for real people.

One idea runs through all seven: take repetitive work off people who already have too much of it. Every project below comes with a working piece you can play with.

~/safal $ mvn verify

[INFO] Reactor Build Order:

compiling…

HopeMeals

Full stack · Donations platform · Live

A charity that runs its own back office.

Who it helpsStudents in government colleges eat without worrying about paying for it.

HopeMeals feeds students in Pune’s government colleges. I designed and built all of it, from the donate button to the ledger. A donor pays, and the Java backend verifies, books and receipts it before they close the tab. Every month it compiles statements and sends invites and campaigns on its own, so volunteers can spend their time on students instead of spreadsheets.

Built with Java, Maven, React, JavaScript and scheduled jobs.

What it does

Payment capture and server-side verification
Tax receipts issued instantly, statements monthly
Donor invites and promos on a schedule
More than 10,000 meals served
600+ students across government colleges and orphanages

Visit hopemeals.org

HopeMeals homepage hero: Supporting students in India, with Donate Now and Apply Now buttons

HopeMeals impact numbers and donation form with preset amounts

About HopeMeals section describing the student-led initiative in Pune

Try the automation

Simulated. No money moves.

DonationController
WebhookVerifier
LedgerService
ReceiptService
DonorLifecycleJob

Meals funded in this demo0 / 10,000

MyStop

Full stack · School transport · Deployed

Runner-up, Best Startup at IIT Bombay Techfest

Live tracking for my school’s buses, straight from the conductor’s phone.

Who it helpsParents know when the bus will reach them, and buses only stop where a child is waiting.

I built MyStop, the bus management app for my school, deployed inside Hubble Orion’s super-app. Parents watch the bus move live, see when it will reach their stop, change a day’s pickup or drop, and mark their child absent, which re-plans the route before the bus leaves. Conductors get a daily route optimised around traffic with Google Maps and tick off each pickup as it happens. Admins add accounts in one click, merge half-empty routes, set up temporary holiday routes and pull daily attendance reports.

What it does

Live bus location and arrival estimates for every stop
Pickups, drops and attendance changed day by day
Routes re-planned around absences and traffic
Call the conductor or watch the bus CCTV in the app
Route merging, temporary routes and daily reports

MyStop, one morning run

Simulated. Names, stops and times are made up.

Every rider is on today’s route.

Aarav, pickup at Undri

Expected pickup 7:15

Route 1 is ready. The bus leaves the depot at 7:05.

Elite Maths Academy

Frontend · Growth website · Live

A website that answers parents’ questions before the first call.

Who it helpsA solo teacher gets a steady stream of enquiries without running ads.

Prof. Amit Waghmare teaches maths to students across India, the UAE and the USA. I built his website: results up front, real reviews from students, and a way to enquire in one tap. It has passed 5,000 visits, and enquiries now arrive on their own.

Built with React, JavaScript, responsive UI and SEO.

What it does

5,000+ visits
Reviews and results as the pitch
One-tap enquiry by WhatsApp, call or email
Pure React, fast on any phone

Visit elitemathsacademy.in

Elite Maths Academy homepage hero introducing Prof. Amit Waghmare

Testimonials section titled Best voices from the classroom

Results gallery showing student exam scores

Call to action: Ready to make maths feel lighter, with a contact button

0+visits

A parent’s path through the site

A promise in one line, the teacher’s face beside it.

Stockroom Ledger

Desktop app · Database and receipts · In daily use

The stockroom that never loses count.

Who it helpsThe team at Arunraj Associates stopped counting stock by hand.

Arunraj Associates opens this app every morning. It tracks every item in and out, prints receipts and warns before shelves run dry. Built in Java with Maven on a relational database, where each sale and its stock change commit together or not at all. The numbers can never disagree.

Built with Java, Maven, SQL and JDBC.

What it does

Live stock levels with low-stock alerts
Receipts generated on every sale
Transactional writes, no drift
Used daily by the team

Stockroom Ledger, running

All shelves healthy

Inventory with sell and restock actions
Item	Stock	Actions
Basmati rice, 25 kgRC-25 · ₹2,150	12
Sunflower oil, 15 LOL-15 · ₹2,480	6
Toor dal, 30 kgDL-30 · ₹4,350	5
Sugar, 50 kgSG-50 · ₹2,300	4

RECEIPTS

Sell something to print one.

-- waiting for the first sale

Rapid Test AI

Public health · Computer vision · Built

A phone camera that reads a test kit the way a lab would.

Who it helpsHealth workers get a consistent reading, even when the line is faint.

Rapid test kits are cheap. Reading them right is not: faint lines get missed, and rural clinics have no reader. Built to aid the Government of India, it is a full-stack app that scans HIV, dengue, malaria and pregnancy kits with computer vision. It measures colour depth and line opacity across the strip, so a faint positive gets caught instead of guessed.

Built with Java, Gradle, Maven, Android and computer vision.

What it does

HIV, dengue, malaria and pregnancy kits
Colour depth and line opacity analysis
Works on phones clinics already own
Aimed at rural and low-income clinics

Scan a test kit

Illustration only. Not a diagnostic tool.

Test line strength 18%Control line

Tcolour depth across membraneC

Set up a kit, then scan it.

Wedding Photobooth

Imaging engine · Live event · Delivered

Photo filters I wrote by hand, for one very big night.

Who it helpsHundreds of guests took home a photo that felt made for them.

A grand wedding, hundreds of guests, one booth. I wrote the filter engine from raw pixels up: polaroid frames, lomo vignettes, sepia, retro grain, clean modern grades and AR overlays, rendered live as guests posed. The hosts left a glowing review.

Built with image kernels, colour matrices, AR overlays and real-time rendering.

What it does

Hundreds of guests photographed
Every filter coded from raw pixel math
Polaroid, lomo, sepia, retro, modern, AR
Glowing review from the hosts

The filter engine

Pick a look.

Bharat Ko Jaano

Bharat Vikas Parishad · Automation · Delivered

The question engine behind a nationwide olympiad.

Who it helpsStudents across India competed on fresh, verified questions.

Bharat Ko Jaano is Bharat Vikas Parishad’s pan-India cultural olympiad. Its city, state and national rounds drew their questions from a system I built. It sources, grades by level and serves questions with verified answers, so every round is fresh and no quizmaster is caught out.

Built with Java, automation and question banks.

What it does

City, state and national rounds
Questions graded by level automatically
Verified answer for every question
No repeats within a pool

Question engine

score 0/0

Generate a round to see the engine pick a fresh, verified question.

4 unused in state pool

The grades, with context.

Class 12 at VIBGYOR High, Pune NIBM, in progress. Scores mean little without the scale they sit on, so each one comes with a line of context.

SAT

1490/1600

Higher than 97% of test takers, out of more than 2 million. The College Board’s admissions test for US universities.

Advanced Placement

AP Computer Science Ain Java

5/5

12345

Classes and objects, arrays and ArrayLists, 2D arrays, recursion, searching and sorting. 5 is the top score.

AP Biology

4/5

12345

Cell biology, cellular energy, genetics and gene expression, natural selection and ecology.

Class 10 boards

93.2%

National board examinations at the end of Class 10.

State topper, Unified Cyber Olympiad

Highest score in the state in Unified Council’s Unified Cyber Olympiad, a national test of computing and cyber reasoning.

CSCI S-111Intensive Introduction to Computer Science and Data Structures

Harvard Summer School taught by David Mulligan, Boston University professor and a Harvard graduate examined in Java 20 to 30 hours of problem sets a week

A single fast course that runs from the first line of Java to graph algorithms. The first half is programming: types, control flow, methods, recursion, objects, files and arrays. The second half is data structures and the analysis of the algorithms built on them, which a university degree usually spreads over a second and third semester.

8university credits completed

Afinal grade, the highest grade the course awards

Learning to program

First half

Data types, conditional execution, iteration and recursion, then object-oriented design, file handling and arrays. Everything written in Java and tested by hand before it was submitted.

Structures and their cost

Second half

Lists, stacks, queues, trees, hash tables and graphs, each built twice: once over arrays and once over linked nodes. Then the classic algorithms that run on them, measured rather than guessed at.

Unit 1 of 10

Getting started

Computational problem solving, the first Java programs, statements, standard output and procedural decomposition into simple methods.

What the course expects you to leave with

Analyse a problem, design a solution, implement it and then test and debug the result.
Choose between data structures by comparing their efficiency, not by preference.
Think recursively, including about structures that are themselves recursive.
Write Java that solves a hard problem at a cost you can defend.

What the A was made of

Final exam35%
Four unit tests30%
Ten problem sets25%
Participation10%

Harvard, Harvard Summer School and the Harvard shield are trademarks of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The course outline above is summarised from the published CSCI S-111 syllabus, copyright the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Shown here only to describe a course I completed; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.

Three committees, two gavels.

Model UN puts you in a room as a country, not as yourself. You research what that country can actually sign, argue its position under parliamentary procedure, build a bloc out of the delegations whose interests overlap with yours, and try to get a resolution passed before the weekend runs out. The chair watches all of it and hands one gavel to the delegate who did it best.

Yale Model United Nations, 50th session

Representing Italy in UNWUN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

The first one. Italy in UN Women at the fiftieth session of the oldest conference on the circuit, in a committee of fifty whose average delegate had already done nine.

Nothing about the room was gentle. Delegates around me had been doing this for years, knew the procedure by reflex and had blocs half formed before the first session opened. I spent that weekend learning what the rules were actually for: when a motion helps you, when a speakers list is a trap, and how quickly a committee decides who it is going to listen to.

2,000 delegates at the conference50 of them in my committee

Conferences behind each delegate, walking in

Me0

Room average9

VIBGYOR MUN 16

Representing Poland in UNCSTDUN Commission on Science and Technology for Development

Poland in UNCSTD, against a committee that averaged seven conferences each. It was my second. I won Best Delegate.

A technology committee rewards the delegate who actually understands the technology, and that was the opening. I wrote policy I could defend line by line, took the unmoderated caucuses seriously instead of treating them as a break, and ended up holding the pen on the draft resolution. The gavel came down on my second conference ever.

Best Delegate

800 delegates at the conference100 of them in my committee

Conferences behind each delegate, walking in

Me1

Room average7

Oxford Global MUN India 2026

Representing Brazil in UNESCOUN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Brazil in UNESCO, in a committee of a hundred whose average delegate had done seventeen conferences. It was my third. Best Delegate again.

Fifteen hundred delegates, and a committee where the average delegate had eight times my experience. The gap stopped mattering somewhere in the first unmoderated caucus: I had read the UNESCO instruments the resolution would have to live inside, I knew what Brazil could and could not sign, and I spent the weekend merging other people’s clauses into something the room could pass. Experience is a proxy for preparation. Preparation is the thing itself.

Best Delegate

1,500 delegates at the conference100 of them in my committee

Conferences behind each delegate, walking in

Me2

Room average17

OxfordMUN GlobalVoices

Oxford, United Kingdomstill to come

Sponsored to debate at GlobalVoices in Oxford, which its organisers describe as the largest high school Model UN in the United Kingdom, held inside University of Oxford college venues.

Three conferences in, both gavels won against rooms that had been doing this for years. The next one is booked, the country and committee are still to come, and the preparation starts the day the assignment lands.

The arithmetic of being the least experienced delegate in the room

At Yale the room averaged nine conferences each and I had done none. At VIBGYOR the average was seven and I had done one. At Oxford Global it was seventeen and I had done two. Every one of those rooms had delegates who could quote the rules of procedure from memory and who arrived with their blocs already agreed.

What closed the gap was not experience but preparation: reading the actual instruments the resolution would have to sit inside, writing a position I could defend under questioning, and treating the unmoderated caucus as the part that decides the weekend. Two of those three rooms gave me the gavel, the second of them against delegates carrying eight times my experience.

250 delegates sat in the three committees I have competed in: fifty at Yale, a hundred at each of the other two. The green one is me.

What a chair is actually scoring

Research: Knowing the country’s real position, the treaties it has signed and the ones it never will, before the first speech.
Speaking: Sixty seconds, no notes worth reading from, and a room that decides in the first ten whether to keep listening.
Procedure: Motions, points and the speakers list, used as tools for steering a debate rather than recited as trivia.
Coalitions: Finding the countries whose interests overlap with yours and getting them into one bloc before somebody else does.
Negotiation: Trading the clause you can lose for the clause you cannot, and staying in your country’s policy while you do it.
Drafting: Turning a weekend of argument into operative clauses that survive amendment and still pass.

none of it is a speaking contest

Yale Model United Nations and its logo are trademarks of Yale University. VIBGYOR MUN and the VIBGYOR logo are trademarks of the VIBGYOR Group of Schools. OxfordMUN, GlobalVoices and the Oxford Global mark are trademarks of Oxford Global Marketing Ltd. Each mark is reproduced at a small size only to identify the conference it belongs to, alongside a factual record of attendance. No affiliation with, sponsorship by or endorsement from any of these organisations is implied.

9 awards, 8 organisations.

Gavels, a state topper certificate, a startup runner-up and an honours list, handed out by people who had no reason to be generous. The list below is the whole of it.

Best DelegateBrazil in UNESCOOxford Global MUN India 2026
Best DelegatePoland in UNCSTDVIBGYOR MUN 16
State TopperUnified Cyber OlympiadUnified Council
Best SpeakerHarvard Global Debate Hub
Best Debating Team“Failure is the best teacher for an entrepreneur”Entrepreneurial Debate, National Entrepreneurship Club Jr, IIT Bombay Techfest
Runner-up, Best StartupMyStopStartup Mela, National Entrepreneurship Club Jr, IIT Bombay Techfest
Certificate of ExcellenceCurrent Care, a project on saving energy in schoolEUMIND
Youngest VolunteerBharat Vikas Parishad
Honours ListThe Bishop’s School camp

Showing 9 of 9.

And the work that came without a certificate

Anaemia Mukt Abhiyan

Aviive Diagnostics with Bharat Vikas Parishad

Testing schoolchildren for anaemia at camps run across the city, so the ones who need iron are found before it shows up in their marks.

Bharat Vikas Parishad

Youngest volunteer on the rolls

Years of Sunday work with a national voluntary organisation, which is also where the Bharat Ko Jaano question engine came from.

HopeMeals started the same way, on a Sunday, and is now its own thing entirely. It has its own chapter above.

Better diagnosis, no new hardware.

Can SaMD Enhance Diagnostic Consistency and Turnaround Time in Resource-Constrained Public Healthcare Settings without Hardware Modification?

Research paper by Safal Mutha · International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology (IJARIIT), Vol. 12, Issue 3, 2026

A review of whether software, especially AI tools, can make diagnosis faster and more consistent in under-resourced public clinics without replacing their equipment. It finds that it can cut turnaround times and disagreement between readers, and that the real obstacles are regulation, cybersecurity, algorithms drifting over time and who pays.

Read the paper (PDF)

SaMD means Software as a Medical Device: software that does a medical job on its own, with no special machine attached.

Software, not hardware
Runs on devices clinics already have. Nothing to buy, ship or repair.
Consistency
The same kit should read the same way in every clinic, for every reader.
Turnaround
Results at the point of care in minutes, not days through a distant lab.

See the app it connects to

It started with a block game.

How I learned to code: at twelve I wanted Minecraft to do things it couldn’t. So I made it. Java, Gradle and Maven came along for the ride.

Learning curveIdeas become features

MCreator
Age 12
Drag-and-drop mod making. A first custom sword, a texture drawn pixel by pixel, and one dangerous thought: what if I could change the rules?
Bukkit and Spigot
Plugins
Real Java at last. Event listeners, commands, a plugin.yml, and a NullPointerException that took down a friends-only server mid-game.
Functions and JSON
Datapacks
mcfunction files, loot tables and advancements. Logic with no compiler to save me, debugged one /say at a time.
Forge and Fabric
Mods
Gradle builds, mappings, registries and mixins into a decompiled game. The first Gradle sync felt eternal. The first working mod felt like magic.
Published on CurseForge
Shipping
Silly, funny mods released for anyone to download. None became famous. Every one taught me how to finish and ship.

None of those mods became popular. It was still the best learning curve of my life.

CurseForge logo and name are trademarks of Overwolf Ltd. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang Synergies AB. Used here only to describe where I published; no affiliation or endorsement.

Quick answers.

The questions that come up in every first email, answered once, here.

Who is Safal Mutha?

A Class 12 student at VIBGYOR High, Pune NIBM in Pune, India, who builds software: Java back ends, React front ends, and the websites and apps around them. He has been writing code since he was twelve, when he started modding Minecraft.

What does he actually build?

Full-stack web applications, Android apps, desktop tools and the websites that sit in front of them. That includes a donations platform with server-side payment verification, a live bus-tracking app for a school, a stock ledger with transactional writes, and a computer vision reader for rapid test kits.

What does he work with?

Java with Maven and Gradle on the back end, React and TypeScript on the front end, SQL for storage, Android and computer vision where a phone is the device, and plain hand-written CSS for design, responsive layout, accessibility and performance.

Has any of it shipped to real users?

Yes. HopeMeals is live at hopemeals.org, Elite Maths Academy is live and past 5,000 visits, Stockroom Ledger is opened every morning by Arunraj Associates, MyStop was deployed for a whole school inside the Hubble Orion super-app, and the Bharat Ko Jaano question engine ran a pan-India olympiad.

What has he studied beyond school?

Harvard Summer School CSCI S-111, Intensive Introduction to Computer Science and Data Structures, completed for eight university credits with a final grade of A. AP Computer Science A at 5 out of 5, AP Biology at 4, and a peer-reviewed paper published in IJARIIT.

Who designed and built this website?

He did, from an empty folder: React 19, TypeScript and Vite, hand-written CSS with no framework, a Three.js voxel island you can mine blocks out of, and a prerendered static build that ships no tracking of any kind.

How do I get in touch?

Email [email protected], call or message +91 86699 00008, or write a note straight from the contact section of this page. He is also on LinkedIn as muthasafal.

I compiled some dad jokes I like about coding

Safal in a navy blazer and red tie, smiling

Why did the Java developer wear glasses?

Give me a process. I’ll make it run itself.

Or reach me directly

Donate to HopeMeals

Safal Mutha

SAT

Advanced Placement

Class 10 boards

State topper, Unified Cyber Olympiad

CSCI S-111Intensive Introduction to Computer Science and Data Structures

Learning to program

Structures and their cost

What the course expects you to leave with

Yale Model United Nations, 50th session

VIBGYOR MUN 16

Oxford Global MUN India 2026

OxfordMUN GlobalVoices

The arithmetic of being the least experienced delegate in the room

What a chair is actually scoring

And the work that came without a certificate

Can SaMD Enhance Diagnostic Consistency and Turnaround Time in Resource-Constrained Public Healthcare Settings without Hardware Modification?

MCreator

Bukkit and Spigot

Functions and JSON

Forge and Fabric

Published on CurseForge

Who is Safal Mutha?

What does he actually build?

What does he work with?

Has any of it shipped to real users?

What has he studied beyond school?

Who designed and built this website?

How do I get in touch?

Give me a process. I’ll make it run itself.