Exploring how software systems behave beyond the textbook 🌱

Computer Science student at The Ohio State University
Building systems, exploring ideas, and growing as a software engineer.

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👋 About me

I’m a CS student interested in how software systems are built, scaled, and used in the real world.

Recently, I’ve been working as an undergraduate researcher in a Driving Simulation Lab, where I design and improve Python-based tooling for research workflows. Through this work, I’ve gained hands-on experience with data processing, testing, and performance trade-offs, but I don’t see myself as limited to any single niche.

I’m still exploring, learning, and expanding:
from backend systems and tooling
to performance, infrastructure, and developer-facing software.

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🔍 What I’m exploring

• 🧱 Software engineering fundamentals (data structures, design, testing)
• ⚙️ Backend and systems-oriented development
• 📈 Performance, scalability, and real-world trade-offs
• 🛠 Tooling that helps people work more effectively
• 🧪 Research-driven and user-centered engineering

(This list is intentionally open-ended.)

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🧩 Selected work

• OSU Driving Simulation Lab – pydre

  • Python tooling for processing large-scale driving simulation data
  • Contributed features, refactors, and test coverage improvements
  • Focus on correctness, maintainability, and practical performance

• Parallelism Benchmark (pydre)

  • Explored how threading and multiprocessing behave under different workloads
  • Built reproducible benchmarks and analysis pipelines
  • Learned that performance is about trade-offs, not just “more parallelism”

• CSV vs Parquet Benchmark

  • Investigated how data format choices impact real Python workflows
  • Compared readability, flexibility, and performance trade-offs
  • Used Polars to ground format decisions in measurement rather than assumptions

(More projects live in individual repositories.)

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🌐 Beyond code

Outside of engineering, I care a lot about communication and people.

• 🎨 Adobe Student Ambassador — leading hands-on workshops
• 📹 Content creator with 13M+ views, explaining ideas to broad audiences
• 🌍 Experience working across cultures and disciplines

I believe good software is built by people who can think clearly and communicate well.

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🚀 Currently

• 🎓 CS @ OSU (Class of 2027)
• 🔍 Exploring Software Engineering Internships (Summer 2026)
• 🛠 Building, learning, and staying curious

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Building in progress

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Thanks for stopping by 🙂