I built an open-source Terraform drift scanner in 2 days, before starting college

I'm 18, based in Kerala, India, and I start college in about 9 months. I wanted to build something real before that happens — not a todo app, not a tutorial project. Something that solves an actual problem developers face.

So I spent a few weeks researching what DevOps and platform engineers actually complain about. One problem kept coming up: infrastructure drift.

You define your infrastructure in Terraform. Someone goes into the AWS console and changes something manually. Now your Terraform state says one thing and AWS says another. Most teams find out during an incident, not before.

Existing tools tell you drift exists. None of them tell you why it matters, who caused it, or what to do about it. That felt like an obvious gap.

So I built SynchroIaC.