About

Recent grad, shipping solo, documenting what actually happened — not the polished version.

Why this site exists

I'm a recent CS grad working on personal projects while grinding leetcode and interview prep. Most engineering blogs read like the bug never happened — clean tutorials with no trace of the hours spent staring at the wrong stack frame. I write the messy part too: the wrong hypothesis, the off-by-one I missed twice, the log line that finally gave it away.

This is also where I log my DSA practice and system design prep as I get ready for new-grad interviews — patterns I keep relearning, problems I got wrong the first time, and the reasoning that finally clicked.

whoami
$ whoami
recent_grad.exe
 
$ cat status.json
{
  "role": "shipping solo",
  "grinding": "leetcode + system design",
  "coffee_level": "critical"
}

Tools I reach for

PythonKotlinReactNext.jsAstroPostgreSQL