Work
I’m currently a software engineer at stripe where I’m working on improving the support infrrastruce.
Before stripe, I spent 3.5 years at CRED where I worked across a lot of different projects and teams ranging from building platforms used by engineering teams within the company and also some cool user facing products like the CRED cashback wallet, I also worked on an early prototype for CRED money
I also had the oppurtunity to intern at Google with the Cloud Dataflow team where I helped prototype an experimental feature ContextualTextIO for the Apache Beam SDK.
This internship was quiet the butterfly effect, I still can’t wrap my head that I only got this oppurtunity because I decided to wakeup at 5 a.m. on a random saturday to participate in code jam kickstart and got a decent rank which led to one of the recruiters reaching out. Pretty insane!!
Hobbies
Gaming
I’ve always loved video games, I spent most of my childhoob beating 8-Bit villans from Contra, Metroid and other games whooes names I can’t even recall anymore. After getting my first PC, the only thing I could make it do till I discovered programming was play games on it, I loved playing the Call of Duty series from what I can recall, that is until I started playing DOTA and then all other games were ruined for me because my monkey brain got addicted to a competitive game. I have over 3500 hours in DOTA2 alone, but more recently I’ve been playing less dota and some other good games like Zelda, Black Myth Wukong, Seliro and F1 to name a few.
Basketball
I’ve been playing basketball since when I was 16 years old. I was fortunate enough to witness the 2015 & 2016 NBA Finals where lebron james and the cavaliers fought for a cleveland championship and consider myself lucky that I witnessed Kyrie Irving and Lebron James win game 7 on the finals live (no team had ever come back from a 3-1 defecit in NBA finals history). I stopped playing for a bit in college but I’ve been trying to play once a week since the start of this year.
Bouldering
I first went bouldering around Feb of 2023, but it was a one time thing becuase one of my friends had convinced me to try it out. To me bouldering then was an expensive sport for which I did not have the upper-body strength.
Last year (2024) my friend (the same one) convinced me to give it another try and I startd liking it. At the same time this video from pewdiepie came out, where he talks about how post moving to Japan he’s been bouldering regulary (this was also a factor that got me hooked).
I’ve been trying to boulder twice a week since then becuase this also serves as a good workout for my upper body and core.
F1
Mehhhh, is this even a hobby? Fast cars go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (or as my friend likes to say, fast cars go fein fein)
Apart from the all the jokes, I had kinda the same view for F1, but after listening to my friends tell me about the engineering marvel that an F1 car is, I took it more seriously and although most race weekends can be a bore this sport sometimes offers great races and some insane drama for all of us fans.
And no, I did not start F1 just because of DriVe To sUrvIve, I also built a F1 Mercedes Lego which is one of the toughest legos if I’m not mistaken.
enough info, i’ll add more when I get some time.