| from 🏠 | in 📍 | likes flowers 💐 | likes rain ☔ | what I listen to while zoning out irl 🎵 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhaka, Bangladesh | Rochester, NY | very much | too much for my own good | my musical children |
Allowing concrete achievements - academic or otherwise - to speak for me is quite uncomfortable, but they are the most convenient metric to hand someone who has no other data.
🍁 In the fall, I was at Spotify on one of their Personalization teams. In the summer, I was at Microsoft working across the stack on a new product. Last year I worked at HubSpot as a software engineering intern on a team that develops data analysis tools.
🌻 Currently, I am doing research with National Technical Institute for the Deaf on an NSF-funded project that seeks to build a better metric than the word-error rate for the evaluation of automatic captioning systems.
🌺 I take great interest in reading and writing, both prose and poetry; I am on the editorial team for Signatures among other writing/writing-adjacent gigs.
🌹 I am also a trained Indian classical singer and I play the harmonium, esraj and tanpura - I wish I could replace one of these with the guitar :c
💮 Also, here are some hackathon projects.
I have learned to appreciate readable, elegant code over my time as a baby developer. I mean, I promise I don't like leaving code unattended. I'd rather make elaborate flower garlands for each function in the form of documentation. But I often don't have the time to do so...
I am picky about my variable names, they ought to fit into context and be coherent in my code. Unless it's an experimental project. Then I'd use x and y until I am certain the program even works.
And I find recursive solutions beautiful.