Now

I’m a Grad student at Santa Clara University, studying Computer Science. My current coursework includes Design & Analysis of Algorithms + Object Oriented Analysis, Design & Programming.

What I claim to know

These are the Technologies/Tools I am proficient in, just some things off the top of my head that I have used in either my personal projects or during my internship:

• Python
• Linux
• Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • UIKit
• Golang
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • RDS
  • EC2
  • Fargate
  • IAM
• Micorosft Azure
  • Function Apps
  • PowerShell
  • Blob Storage
  • CosmosDB
  • Azure DevOps
• Jenkins

What I want to know

For the past 2.5 to 3 years, I have always liked DevOps. I was lucky that during my final year, I got to work for 11 months as an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer), which is essentially a DevOps engineer. I like DevOps because when programming, I enjoy listening to keynotes. I have watched hundreds of hours of AWS Reinvent, Oracle OpenWorld, and Google Cloud Connect keynotes. As a result, I know a lot about how and when some of these tools are used, but I would also love to work with them in real life myself.

So here’s the list; it’s not really exhaustive. If you ask me tomorrow, I might add some things.

• Kubernetes (K8s)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Advanced CI/CD Pipelines
  • GitLab
• Cloud Security
• Reinforcement Learning
• Chaos Engineering

What I want to be

If you don’t count internships as work experience, then right now I have none, lol. A lot of times in interviews, when asked what my career goals are, I describe my love for programming. For me, even Leetcode is fun to some extent, though it does get a bit much when you’re studying for interviews like I am 🙃.

Anyway, ideally, I would live in the Bay Area, and this is what I envision for my career trajectory. Fingers crossed XDD.

• SRE Intern at JCI (first internship)
• SRE Intern @ NVIDIA <— we are here
• SDE 1
• SDE 2
• Senior SE
• Staff Software Engineer
• Distinguished SE
• Principal Technology Architect
• CTO (lol)

Last updated: June 22, 2024.