experience
learning real-world systems through internships, research, and fellowships.
- google × basta — code2careerjun – aug 2026
tech fellow · remote
- ·earned a spot as 1 of 150 fellows from 1,500 applicants (top 10%) for a 10-week mentorship with a Google software engineer on data structures, algorithms, and technical interviews
- ·building data-intensive infrastructure in Rust and C++ alongside Google SWE Parneet Kaur
- swarthmore college computer society (sccs)jan 2026 – present
system admin & software engineer · swarthmore, pa
- ·keep 2,000+ daily users online across campus infrastructure (course planner, swatgpt, student catalog, club manager) by maintaining the full stack in TypeScript and PostgreSQL
- ·administer a self-hosted Portainer fleet of 31 stacks, 95 containers, and 345 volumes on a 3-node server (512GB RAM, 5 GPUs, 165GB VRAM) with Docker and Linux
- ·keep the platform observable by self-hosting Grafana and managing NFS storage across nodes
- swatgptjan 2026 – present
lead swe & pm · swarthmore, pa
- ·ship a campus-wide LLM assistant by fine-tuning and serving Qwen3 35B-A3B (MoE, 3B active params) on vLLM with tensor parallelism across 5 GPUs / 165GB VRAM
- ·hold inference latency low under concurrent campus load via continuous batching behind an OpenAI-compatible API
- ·ground answers in campus data with a RAG pipeline over course catalogs and student handbooks
- ·own the product roadmap and feature prioritization as PM
- headstart fellowshipjan – may 2026
tech fellow (sp26 cohort) · remote
- ·selected to the tech track of a competitive fellowship (sub-8% acceptance) focused on engineering skills and technical career prep
- ·improved how HeadStart manages its network by building a graph CRUD system with Go, gRPC, Neo4j, and a TypeScript frontend
- ·sharpened engineering and professional skills through mentorship and direct engagement with corporate partners
- swarthmore college — icpcsept 2025 – present
lead competitive programmer · swarthmore, pa
- ·lead the Swarthmore ICPC club of 20 as the highest-rated member, organizing practices and contests
- ·run weekly training by constructing 5-hour, 8-problem contests with 2-hour editorials for div-2 teams
- ·solved 1,500+ Codeforces problems over 4+ years — expert-level C++ with STL containers, iterators, templates, and custom data structures
- colgate universityapr 2024 – mar 2025
algorithmic research · remote
- ·researched the NP-hard Graph Bandwidth Problem on a 100% scholarship with prof. David Perkins
- ·beat GRASP, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and ICA by ~20% with a novel genetic algorithm using wave function collapse (NGA-WFC)
- ·published as an Outstanding Research Paper in the Pioneer Journal (top 1.3% of submissions)
- beelievemar 2024 – dec 2025
founder & ceo · kazakhstan
- ·secured $30,000+ from Samsung Innovations, UNESCO Startups, and Kazakhstan's Ministry of Ecology to tackle large-scale bee population decline
- ·grew to 300+ active beekeepers with a data-driven dashboard in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and MongoDB
- ·delivered real-time hive-health predictions with an ML pipeline over 500,000+ datapoints — Confluent Kafka, LightGBM, MQTT, TimescaleDB, FastAPI
- ·reached $1,000 MRR with a live apiary-recommendation system over LoRaWAN powered by a fine-tuned Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3