Fullstack2024Role: Lead Fullstack & AI Engineer

Smartseum

Interactive 3D Museum & Heritage Exploration Platform with Real-time AI Assistant

Smartseum screenshot

Key Metrics & Engineering Highlights

AI Latency

< 400ms

Exhibit Assets

3D + WebP

Auth Flow

OAuth & Session

Problem Statement

Challenge & Context

Museum visitors and students struggle to engage with static artifacts without interactive historical context or personalized guides.

Engineering Solution

Technical Strategy

Engineered an immersive web platform combining 3D interactive exhibit viewers, QR code point-of-interest scanning, and Google Gemini AI conversational retrieval.

System Architecture

Technical Implementation Highlights

Smartseum bridges physical museum curation with modern digital experiences. Visitors explore museum galleries through interactive 3D models and consult an AI conversational companion capable of explaining historical provenance and cultural significance in real time.

Role-based multi-tenant architecture for Curators, Educators, and Public Visitors
Better-Auth session management with Drizzle ORM on Neon Serverless Postgres
AI conversational layer powered by Google Gemini and Groq LPU with sub-400ms context streaming
Cloudinary dynamic image transformation for high-resolution artifact galleries

Technologies Used

Next.jsReact 19Drizzle ORMNeon PostgresBetter-AuthGemini AI

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