Measure before you change
Profiles and query plans decide what gets optimised. A hunch about where the time is going is usually wrong.
02About
I like the half of the problem everyone skips.
I'm a computer science undergraduate at Dayananda Sagar University in Bengaluru, currently shipping backend services as an SDE intern at Reskilll. Most of what I work on sits somewhere between an API and a disk.
- Role
- Software Development Engineer Intern, Reskilll
- Studying
- B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Dayananda Sagar University
- Location
- Bengaluru, India — Open to relocating
- Leading
- ACM Student Chapter, 40+ members
01 In short
I'm a computer science undergraduate at Dayananda Sagar University in Bengaluru, currently shipping backend services as an SDE intern at Reskilll. Most of what I work on sits somewhere between an API and a disk.
The work I'm proudest of is rarely the feature. It's the reconciliation script that retired a manual audit, the index that took 30% off a query, the fault-injection harness that proves a write survives a crash. Correctness under concurrency and failure is the interesting half of the problem, and it's the half that gets skipped.
Outside of shipping, I chair the ACM Student Chapter here — a 40+ member team running technical events and workshops — and I've taken first place at two national hackathons. Both are practice at the same thing: getting something real working, with people, before the clock runs out.
02How I work
Make failure a code path
Crash recovery, reconciliation and fault injection belong in the design, not in the postmortem.
Root-cause, don't patch
Duplicate records mean state is wrong somewhere upstream. Tracing it is slower once and faster forever.
Ship in small pieces
Incremental delivery, real code review and green CI turn production changes into routine instead of events.
03Education
Dayananda Sagar University
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
Bengaluru, India
2024 — Expected May 2028
Relevant coursework
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Operating Systems
- Computer Networks
- Database Management Systems
- Computer Architecture
- Software Engineering
- Cloud Computing
04Technical skills
- Languages
- C++PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQL
- Computer Science
- Data Structures & AlgorithmsObject-Oriented ProgrammingOperating SystemsComputer NetworksDatabase Management SystemsComputer ArchitectureConcurrencyMultithreadingDistributed SystemsSoftware Engineering
- Backend
- FastAPIREST APIsNode.jsNestJSPostgreSQLDatabase DesignQuery OptimizationAuthenticationAPI Design
- Frontend
- React.jsNext.jsTailwind CSS
- Systems & DevOps
- LinuxGitGitHub ActionsDockerCI/CDCMakeGoogleTestThreadSanitizerPrometheusGrafanaperf
- Engineering
- Unit TestingIntegration TestingBenchmarkingProfilingDebuggingRoot-Cause AnalysisPerformance OptimizationCode ReviewVersion Control
- Cloud & Deployment
- VercelNeon PostgreSQLDocker-based DeploymentEnvironment ConfigurationProduction Monitoring
05Beyond the code
First place, two national hackathons
Built and presented software solutions under competitive time constraints, twice taking first place at national level.
Chair, ACM Student Chapter
Lead a 40+ member team at Dayananda Sagar University, organising technical events, workshops and student engineering initiatives.
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