A short story, roughly chronological.
Origins
I was a commerce kid in high school, mathematics and economics, not the typical CS pipeline. Two seniors at IIIT Delhi told me about the boards and olympiad route in, and that changed everything. Once I got there, I fell into algorithms, puzzles and low-level systems almost by accident.
The people I met didn't help. They had these grand, specific visions for what they wanted to build, and that kind of energy rubs off on you. It pushed me into some of the most amazing programs, research experiences and opportunities I could have asked for. Truly grateful.
Projects
Built Pocket Pixel, a GameBoy emulator for Android with a C++ core running through JNI, hitting 60 FPS across 100+ titles. It sits on the Play Store with 5000 downloads and a 4.5 rating. Also built IIIT Lang, an interpreter for IIIT Delhi slang, complete with a self-written garbage collector. And an Angry Birds clone in Java with LibGDX that I probably spent too long on.
The throughline is that I like building things that have real mechanics underneath: emulators, interpreters, physics engines. Stuff where you can't fake the internals.
What I'm working on
hft-core: sub-120ns order book latency, AVX2 price search, lock-free SPSC queue. The profiler is basically how I think now.
On the side, stochastic calculus, market microstructure, the C++ memory model, and building my own compiler for IIIT Lang. Always looking for the next thing that bends my brain.
↳ IIIT Delhi, BTech CS · graduating July 2027 · open to SIP opportunities
