18-Year-Old Kerala Developer Builds Open-Source Terraform Drift Scanner Before College

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Jeffrin, an 18-year-old developer from Kerala, India, built and released SynchroIaC, an open-source tool designed to detect and explain Terraform infrastructure drift in AWS environments. The tool integrates via a single GitHub Action, compares Terraform state against live AWS resources using a read-only IAM role, and surfaces discrepancies on a web dashboard. Each detected drift is automatically classified by risk level and accompanied by an AI-generated explanation, with an option to auto-generate a fix pull request. The project was built in two days using a stack that includes Go, Next.js, Supabase, and OpenRouter AI models, with AWS credentials remaining entirely within the user's own GitHub Actions environment. Jeffrin has published the tool on GitHub and the GitHub Actions Marketplace and is seeking community feedback ahead of starting college in nine months.

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