life
things outside the code editor.
travelling
love getting on a flight and figuring things out on the other side. every city teaches you something you can't read about.
chess
started playing in 5th grade. something about the game — the way every move has consequences three moves later — stuck with me.
participated in competitions across delhi. still play when there's time.
music
played flute and tabla growing up. appreciate the discipline it takes — not unlike learning a new programming language, except the feedback loop is immediate and unforgiving.
hackathons & community
judged multiple hackathons in gurgaon with mastercard, microsoft, and geekroom. there's something uniquely energetic about watching people build under a deadline.
active member of the kaggle community — competitions are a good forcing function for trying approaches you'd never reach for on a normal day.
experiments & anime
constantly experimenting with the latest models, tools, and apis — if something new drops, i've probably tried it within a week. nowadays experimenting with nvidia dgx spark paired with my macbook m1 pro.
also a committed anime watcher. the storytelling in good anime is genuinely underrated.