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My love for computers has been around since early childhood, and during high school, I was an independent consultant providing small-scale IT support to friends and family. This eventually expanded to nearby small businesses where I would improve their IT infrastructure and help them resolve issues. I guess this long-time association with computers is what has so strongly etched my love for them.Programming for me is just not putting together a bunch of lines of code to get an output, it's about solving real-world practical problems. I want every line of my code to bring value to the products I build and contribute towards making this world a better place.This fierce passion tightly coupled with my burning desire to acquire new skills has driven my career forward. As a Software Engineer at Dish Network, I worked on an array of front-end development frameworks and technologies. I started at web development using Javascript, React, and Redux, transitioned to iOS development with Swift, and then to Android to implement a co-viewing feature on the Sling TV app across platforms, all in less than a year. Before this, I worked on embedded systems with C++ and Qt for developing a communication protocol and a port as part of my internship with Dish. While rendering my services as a consultant for a manufacturing company, I got to play around with multiple business management software. This enabled me to understand various business operations and use appropriate software to streamline them. All these skills aggregated to help me co-found a startup where I realized that I have a great passion for managing people, projects, and business operations. Every day was new to me, as I was presented with an altogether new set of challenges that kept me on my toes. I realized that working in an unpredictable environment was exciting for me!All this has propelled me to pursue a Master of Information Systems Management degree at Carnegie Mellon University. With every breath I take, I am enhancing my skills in both technology and management and taking a step towards mastering them. A few of my courses such as object-oriented programming, Database management, distributed systems, and data structures have sharpened my skills and multiplied my love for software development.Further, I firmly believe that a healthy mind resides in a healthy body and enormously enjoy the euphoric rush I get after my workout and running sessions. So in my free time, you’ll simply find me aggressively working out at the gym or running on the track, or sometimes doing a few laps in the pool.

Listed skills include Core Java, Distributed Systems, Git, Amazon Web Services, and 57 others.