I'm a first-year CS student, currently in the phase where small programs and half-finished games teach you more than any lecture. Hangman one week, a bit of ML the next. The early stuff. It's a lot of not knowing what you're doing and figuring it out anyway, which turns out to be most of what programming is.

The goal, though, is clear: Cloud Security Architecture. I got there by laying out the options honestly. Quant Dev, Software Dev, Cloud Sec. All reasonable paths. I went with Cloud Sec because it was the most systems-oriented of the three, and that's the kind of thinking I'm drawn to. It's a long road from here, but having a direction makes the early work feel like it's going somewhere.

Outside the terminal, I play video games (Clair Obscur Expedition 33, and Cyberpunk 2077, they're my favs), I follow Valorant esports more seriously than I probably should. Team Liquid fan. I listen to a lot of music and spend an unreasonable amount of time on YouTube, which at this point I've just accepted as part of who I am. Still figuring most things out. That's the point.

Technologies

  • Go
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kubernetes
  • gRPC
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Redis
  • Terraform

Timeline

2024
Senior Software Engineer Acme Corp — Building distributed infra
2022
Software Engineer II TechCo — Platform team
2020
Software Engineer StartupXYZ — Full stack
2018
B.Tech, Computer Science University Name