I'm a third-year CS undergrad at Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, class of 2028, currently in semester five with a 9.70 CGPA. I got here by building things — my first real software was RyMeds, a pharmacy inventory system my team hacked together in semester one. It won our college hackathon, and more importantly, it was the first time something I made solved a problem someone actually had.
By semester three I was building ETLab+, a mobile app that rescued my batch from our college ERP's web portal — attendance, marks, and timetable on your phone instead of a desktop site from another era. Classmates installed the APK. That project taught me the difference between code that works and code that survives real users.
Somewhere along the way I fell down the AI rabbit hole. I started running quantized 8B models on an Intel Arc GPU via Vulkan and built Thursday, a local-first assistant with tools, memory, voice, and a Codex project studio. This year it took me from Codex Nightline in Kochi to the OpenAI Codex Community Hackathon in Bengaluru, where I got to learn from a room full of builders.
Between classes I'm the IEEE student branch's Technical Coordinator, I self-host my stack on an Ubuntu home server behind Tailscale, and I write C++ without a game engine to remind myself what frameworks are hiding from me. I'm looking for internships in backend, AI systems, and performance-critical work — the closer to the metal, the better.
“Build the thing. Read the docs when it breaks. Write down what you learned.”