Open to product & engineering roles in 2027
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I like software that has to survive contact with reality.
Ahmedabad, India → Los Angeles (2019) → San Francisco · SFSU '27, Computer Science · English, Hindi, Gujarati
About
I'm pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at San Francisco State University, and I've ended up somewhere between two worlds: two internship cycles configuring VPNs and firewalls on production networks at BlazeNet, and then building a live product anyway. Corridor started as a portfolio project and turned into something people actually use to check remittance rates. I like the parts of software that touch the systems it runs on, and I like shipping things that work under real traffic, not just in a demo.
On the software side, I work across Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, and SQL, most recently building and shipping Corridor to real users. On the infrastructure side, I've spent two internship cycles at BlazeNet configuring VPNs, firewalls, and routing policies on production networks. I like problems that sit at that intersection, where code meets the systems it actually runs on.
Outside of coursework, I contribute to outreach and event organization for SFSU's ACM and SF Hacks chapters, and I'm a Fall 2026 fellow in SFSU's President's Leadership Fellows Program.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
San Francisco State University · Expected May 2027 · GPA 3.5
Coursework
Introduction to Web Software Development, Software Development, Operating System Principles, Analysis of Algorithms I, Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Database Systems
Experience
Network Engineering Intern
May 2025 – Aug 2026BlazeNet (ISP & Managed Network Security Services Provider)
- Configured and maintained VPN tunnels and firewall rules on Cisco ASA appliances, supporting secure remote access for corporate clients.
- Deployed and configured Cisco and MikroTik routers, implementing routing policies, VLAN segmentation, and interface configurations for production and lab environments.
- Assisted with BGP configuration and monitoring, including route advertisement, peering validation, and troubleshooting of routing anomalies.
- Performed ongoing network monitoring to identify and resolve connectivity issues, minimizing downtime across client infrastructure.
- Mentored incoming interns on cybersecurity best practices, including credential security and phishing awareness.
- Documented recurring issues and resolutions across two internship cycles, improving troubleshooting efficiency.
Event Manager
Jan – Aug 2023Calabasas High School
- Coordinated logistics and A/V systems for large-scale school events, ensuring seamless technical execution.
- Developed operational workflows, schedules, and setup protocols to streamline event delivery.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and vendors to mitigate risks and maintain timelines.
Selected Work
- AI Insights
- Live Rates
- 66 Corridors
Compare thereal cost
Corridor
Live productRemittance fee comparison platform
Sending money abroad, providers quote wildly different totals for the same transfer, and none of them show you the number that actually matters: how much of your money disappears into fees and FX markup versus the real mid-market exchange rate. I built a site called Corridor that ranks Wise, PayPal and Western Union by real total cost, computed against the true mid-market rate, across 66 corridors and 11 currencies, so the cheapest option is obvious rather than buried in marketing copy. An AWS Lambda refreshes the rates daily, and where a number is entered by hand (PayPal on some corridors) the site shows the date it was checked. I'd rather show three providers I can trust than ten I'm guessing at.
It's not a class project sitting in a repo. It's a deployed product at corridor-red.vercel.app, hardened for real traffic: social/SEO metadata, rate limiting and a honeypot bot-check on signup, and a public methodology page documenting the cost formula (the same one the World Bank's Remittance Prices Worldwide database uses), so the ranking is verifiable rather than a black box. An email rate-alert feature, built on the Buttondown API and tied to the specific corridor a visitor is viewing, is the product's core retention loop.
How it works
The mid-market rate is fetched live from the Frankfurter FX API and cached for up to an hour. When a whole corridor briefly showed impossible negative costs at once, the obvious suspect was a recent FX-source switch, but tracing it through showed the real cause was a genuine ~3.2% currency move, not a code bug. That investigation did surface one real bug though: a rate-integrity guard that could get permanently stuck after a real move instead of adapting to it. Full writeup, including the fix, in the case study below.
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Team Project
Recipe togrocery list
CookLink
Team projectRecipe discovery & grocery planning
Co-developed for CSC 317 at SFSU: search any dish, browse curated YouTube recipe videos, and save the ingredients straight to a personal grocery list, turning recipe discovery into an actionable shopping trip rather than a bookmarked tab you never revisit. The backend handles session-based authentication with bcrypt-hashed passwords, a relational Postgres schema modeling users, dishes, and ingredients, and integrates the YouTube Data API for real-time video search. Deployed on Vercel with a production Neon Postgres database, handling live user accounts and search traffic rather than running against local/mock data.
Skills
Languages
Systems & Tools
Networking/Security
Product/Web
Contact
Open to full-time APM and new-grad software roles: opportunities where software and infrastructure meet. Reach out any time.
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