I like the part where it has to actually work.

I started with a BCA in Bhatkal, moved to Bengaluru for an MCA at Cambridge Institute of Technology, and finished in 2026 with a CGPA of 8.6. Along the way I discovered that I prefer the systems side of the work — the API, the data model, the reason a page is slow — more than the part where you move a button four pixels to the left.

My internship at Sozoq put me inside a real product and a real team for three months. I built and integrated REST APIs with Node.js and TypeScript, translated Figma designs into responsive interfaces, and cut average page load time by 40% using lazy loading and route-level code splitting. More useful than any of those line items: I learned how much of engineering is reading, asking, and matching the codebase you have rather than the one you would have written.

Outside of work I contribute to open-source projects I actually use — ToolJet, LibreDB, Data Peek — and build side projects to test ideas I do not yet have a good intuition for: real-time messaging, background video analysis, LLM-backed journaling, alerting pipelines. The pattern in all of them is the same. I want to understand the whole slice, not one comfortable layer of it.

I am now looking for a full-stack or backend role where the work is real, the code gets reviewed, and there is something hard to pick up.