About / Approach

Chemical engineering taught me to think in systems. Code gave me a way to build them.

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.

Education National Institute of Technology Srinagar

B.Tech, NIT Srinagar, class of 2027 · Chemical Engineering

Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir · Engineering fundamentals + self-directed computer science

Timeline

A short dated record.

2022

Event host

TEDx NIT Srinagar

Hosted the event on stage, helping connect speakers, ideas, and the audience through clear live communication.

2023–24

Operations Lead

Google Developer Student Club, NIT Srinagar

Spring 2023 – Autumn 2024. Organized workshops on Git, open-source contribution, and software development best practices.

2024

Team lead

Techvaganza

Led a 29-member team across three months of planning and execution, translating a large event into clear responsibilities and measurable checkpoints.

2025–26

Systems projects

Redis-compatible server and MOS 6502 CPU core

Built a minimal Redis-compatible C++ server (POSIX sockets, RESP, persistence) and completed an unfinished MOS 6502 CPU core with instruction-level tests. Public GitHub also records NES-Emu (July 2025), a C++ NES emulator with PPU and mapper support.

Mar 2026

Lead Organiser

Cursor Hackathon Kashmir

Led the planning and execution of a two-day national hackathon in Kashmir with more than 600 attendees, coordinating people, logistics, communication, and delivery under a fixed deadline.

Aug 2026

Project

A* vs Dijkstra Maze Visualizer

Public repository created 22 August 2026. An ncurses C++ visualizer that compares A* and Dijkstra on the same maze and stores layouts through the Redis-compatible server.

Sep 2026

Project

AI Customer Support Agent

Public repository created 12 September 2026. Offline intent classification, BM25 retrieval, and deterministic routing guardrails, with 95.95% escalation recall on 150 held-out cases.

Oct 2026

Open source

ResearchComb v0.5.23

Public repository created 8 October 2026. Twelve research workflows plus an update command for OpenAI Codex and Google Antigravity, with a shared evidence record. Same-day launch post on LinkedIn.

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