PrajniX / Praxis
12-week industry internship

Build real software.
Earn a career.

PrajniX Praxis is a structured 12-week internship programme where engineering students work on real industry projects, guided by working professionals, and graduate with a verifiable portfolio and certificate.

What you get at the end

12 weeks from now, you'll have:

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A real open-source project on GitHub Public, reviewable by any recruiter
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A verifiable digital certificate Public URL, LinkedIn-ready
👨‍💼
Industry mentor reference From a working professional who reviewed your code
⚙️
Professional tool fluency Git, CI/CD, code review, project boards
12wk
Structured programme, zero fluff
5
Industry domain tracks to choose from
1:4
Mentor-to-student ratio, guaranteed
4
Milestones signed off by industry mentors
Why Praxis

What makes this different
from every other internship

Most "internships" are busywork. Praxis is built on one idea: you learn by doing real work, reviewed by real people, with real consequences.

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Industry-oriented projects

Every project is drawn from real business domains — e-commerce platforms, ML recommendation engines, cloud pipelines, threat detection systems. Not toy problems.

Real deliverables
👨‍💻

Constant mentorship from practitioners

Your mentor is a working software professional. They review your code within 24 hours, sign off milestones, hold weekly 1:1s, and write your completion reference.

Not a TA, not a bot
📡

Weekly experience-sharing webinars

Every week, an industry practitioner shares their real-world experience — war stories, career pivots, technical deep-dives, how things actually work at a company.

Live, not recorded
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Mentor-reviewed code, not auto-graded

Every pull request is read and reviewed by a human. You get specific line-by-line feedback, not a pass/fail score. That's how real engineers improve.

Human feedback loop
📁

Public GitHub portfolio, forever

Your project repo is public. Your commit history is real. Any recruiter can see exactly what you built, how you worked, and the standard of your code.

Beats a resume bullet
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Peer cohort — learn together

You work alongside other students across different colleges. You review each other's code, share your learnings in Discord, and build a professional network from Day 1.

Cross-college network
🗂️

Structured 12-week milestones

Four clear milestones, each with specific acceptance criteria, signed off by your mentor. You always know what "done" means — no ambiguity, no scope creep.

Clear progress bar
⚙️

Professional tools from Day 1

Git branching, CI/CD pipelines, code review, Kanban project boards. The same stack used by engineering teams worldwide. You'll be fluent before you graduate.

Job-ready skills
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Verifiable digital certificate

A public verification URL, employer-checkable, LinkedIn-shareable. Not a participation trophy — only issued after your mentor signs off all four milestones.

Earned, not given
The programme

From application
to portfolio in 12 weeks

Simple, structured, and relentless.

1

Apply & get matched

Submit your application. Admin reviews and places you in one of 5 domain tracks with a cohort and an industry mentor.

2

Weeks 1–3: Onboard

Meet your mentor. Get access to the GitHub repo. Define milestones. Set up local environment. First PRs merged.

3

Weeks 4–11: Build

Weekly PR cycles, mentor code reviews, 1:1s, weekly logs, and live webinars. Four milestone signoffs along the way.

4

Week 12: Graduate

Present your demo. Get your verifiable certificate. Your GitHub repo is now a live portfolio piece for recruiters.

Foundation (1–3)
Core Dev (4–6)
Integration (7–9)
Polish & Ship (10–12)
M1 — Foundation ✓
M1 & M2 ✓
M3 ✓
M4 + Certificate ✓
Specialisations

5 domain tracks.
Choose your direction.

Each track runs a live real-world project for the cohort duration. Pick the domain where you want to grow — or the one that will accelerate your career.

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Full Stack Development

End-to-end web platform with real users, real API, real database.

Python · React · PostgreSQL
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AI & Machine Learning

Production ML system — not a Jupyter notebook, a deployable API.

PyTorch · FastAPI · HuggingFace
☁️

Cloud & DevOps

CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure as code, container orchestration.

Docker · GitHub Actions · AWS
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Cybersecurity

Threat detection system, security tooling, vulnerability analysis.

Python · SIEM · OSINT tools
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Open Source & Others

Contribute to real OSS projects or a mentor-proposed domain project.

Cross-domain · Custom stack
Live projects

Real work. Real scope.

These are the actual projects running in current and upcoming cohorts — not toy exercises, scoped for 12 weeks of serious engineering.

Browse all projects →
Weekly webinar series

Learn from people
already doing it.

Every week during the programme, an industry practitioner joins live to share their experience. Real stories, real career paths, real technical depth.

Apply to attend →
Week 2
How production systems actually fail — and what on-call feels like
Week 4
From junior to senior: what gets you promoted faster
Week 6
Code review culture: giving feedback people actually act on
Week 8
Security by design: building things that don't get breached
Week 10
ML in production: the gap between research and a live system
Week 12
Your first 90 days at a company — how to land and grow fast
✓ Verified

Certificate of Completion

Ananya Sharma
Full Stack E-Commerce Platform
Cohort 1 · Jan–Apr 2026
4 milestones completed Mentor-reviewed GitHub portfolio 12 weeks
The certificate

Earned, not given.
Verifiable forever.

The Praxis certificate is issued only after your mentor signs off all four milestones. It comes with a permanent public URL that any employer can check, and a PDF you can attach to job applications.

Public verification URL — any employer can confirm it in seconds. No paper, no forging.
LinkedIn-shareable — add it to your certifications section and link to the verification page.
Mentor-signed — your mentor's name and employer are on the certificate. That's a stronger signal than a generic "internship certificate."
Backed by a live GitHub repo — the certificate links to a real codebase, not a report PDF.
Practising engineers

Not academics. Not bots.

Every mentor is a working software professional who reviews real code, signs off milestones, and puts their name on your certificate.

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python

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An AI expert working the domain of Finance and Healthcare

AI, ML, Finance

C

Cloud & DevOps Architect

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

C

Cybersecurity Practitioner

AppSec, Threat Analysis, SIEM

A

AI & ML Specialist

PyTorch, NLP, MLOps, Deep Learning

F

Full Stack Engineer

Python, React, PostgreSQL, REST APIs

Meet all mentors →
Who this is for

Built for engineering students who are serious

Praxis works for you if you recognise yourself in any of these.

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The resume gap student

2nd or 3rd year · Any branch

You've done coursework but you have nothing concrete to show a recruiter. You need a project with real commits, a mentor reference, and a certificate that proves you shipped something.

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The domain switcher

Wants to move to tech · Any year

You're in a non-CS branch but you're teaching yourself to code. Praxis is a credible way to prove you can work on real software alongside CS graduates — without a CS degree.

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The fast-mover

Final year · Already coding

You can already code, but you've never worked in a professional setting. You've never done code review, never shipped with CI/CD, never worked with a senior's feedback on your architecture choices.

✓ Praxis is

  • A structured, milestone-based 12-week programme
  • Real work on a real GitHub repo, reviewed by a real mentor
  • Live webinars, weekly 1:1s, peer code review culture
  • An earned, verifiable certificate & portfolio project
  • Demanding — you're expected to show up and produce

✕ Praxis is not

  • A passive video course you can pause and forget
  • An auto-graded assignment with a participation cert
  • A solo project with no accountability
  • An "experience" certificate for attending a bootcamp
  • Something you can complete without genuine effort
Voices from the cohort

What participants say

★★★★★

"Before Praxis I'd only written code for assignments. Getting my first PR reviewed by my mentor — with actual line-by-line comments — was humbling and eye-opening at the same time. I got the same kind of feedback in my first job and I already knew how to handle it."

AS
Ananya S.
CSE, VIT Vellore · Cohort 1
★★★★★

"The weekly webinars were the part I didn't expect to value so much. Hearing an engineer at Zepto talk about what their incident response looks like — that's not something any textbook covers. It made me understand what a career in software actually looks like."

RK
Rohan K.
Mechanical Engg (switching to tech) · Cohort 1
★★★★★

"I used the certificate link directly in my resume. Three out of four interviews I did last month mentioned that the interviewer had clicked through and looked at my GitHub repo. That's a conversation starter I wouldn't have had otherwise."

PM
Priya M.
ECE, NIT Trichy · Now at Razorpay
Cohort 2 now open

Ready to build
something real?

Applications for Cohort 2 close on 30 July 2026. Seats are limited to 20 students. Apply now — shortlisting is based on intent, not marks.

◷ Application closes 30 July 2026 · Programme starts 15 August 2026