Selected work / 2024–25
A standalone MOS 6502 CPU core I completed and tested in C++, extending an unfinished 6502 base repo. My work completes execution, bus integration, interrupts, arithmetic fixes, decimal mode, and instruction-level testing.
A minimal Redis server built to understand in-memory databases and client-server architecture, with RESP parsing, command execution, basic persistence, multithreading, and STL containers.
A grid-based visualizer that models maze cells as a graph, finds optimal paths with Dijkstra and A*, and compares nodes explored, path length, and execution time across mazes.
Now / Currently building
I am tightening the boundary between two independent C++ programs: a pathfinding visualizer that serializes mazes and a Redis-compatible server that stores them through TCP and RESP.
Working now
Next checkpoint
Broaden malformed-input tests and document performance across larger mazes.
Open case study ↗Writing / Field notes
How two separate C++ projects became one useful system through serialization, POSIX sockets, RESP, validation, and persistent storage.
Read articleA practical look at why the theoretically smarter algorithm can lose on a small grid—and what profiling taught me about heuristics, overhead, and hardware reality.
Read articleAbout / Approach
I’m an engineering student at NIT Srinagar moving deliberately into software. My best learning happens below the surface: tracing an instruction, opening a socket, profiling an algorithm, or finding the exact abstraction that makes a backend easier to reason about.
Outside code, I’ve led teams and organized a two-day national hackathon in Kashmir with more than 600 attendees—experience that sharpened how I communicate, coordinate, and ship under pressure.
B.Tech · Chemical Engineering
Engineering fundamentals + self-directed computer science
C, C++, and Python—with C++ as the foundation for my systems and algorithmic projects.
Object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, multithreading, networking, operating systems, and system design.
Linux, Git, STL, Redis, and MySQL—used to build, inspect, test, and reason about working software.
C · C++ · Python · Redis · MySQL · Linux · Git · STL
Contact / Let’s talk