School, completed
Graduated from JG International School, Ahmedabad — the full Cambridge program, IGCSE through AS & A Levels, anchored in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science.
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I go deep, not wide — open-source licensing, document databases, open lakehouses, in-memory systems, and AI that I also know how to break. B.Tech (AI Speciality) undergrad. 20 credentials earned in public.
01 — about
Built in Ahmedabad,
aimed at infrastructure.
I graduated from JG International School, Ahmedabad in April 2024, completing the Cambridge program — IGCSE through AS & A Levels — with a heavy lean into Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Since October 2024 I've been at Swarrnim Startup & Innovation University, pursuing a four-year B.Tech with an AI Speciality. My teachers describe a strong sense of logic and an instinct for working complex problems independently; I'd describe it as not being able to leave a system alone until I understand its internals.
Alongside my coursework, I went past tutorials into the real tooling of modern data platforms: how open-source licenses actually constrain software, how MongoDB designs schemas and keeps clusters reliable, how Apache Iceberg and Polaris turn object storage into a lakehouse, how Redis serves AI workloads at memory speed — and how generative AI gets attacked, because defending systems means thinking like the person breaking them.
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02 — learning journey
Two years,
one straight line down the stack.
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Apr 2024 -
2024 First principles, first language
C++ for Beginners at Newton School of Technology (Headstart) — memory, types, and control flow before any abstraction. The habit of learning bottom-up starts here.
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Sep 2024 Open source, properly
Four Linux Foundation courses in one sprint — licensing basics (LFC191), compliance management (LFC193), contributing in finance with FINOS (LFD137), and cybersecurity essentials (LFC108). Understanding the legal and security substrate everything else runs on.
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Oct 2024 Undergrad begins
Started a four-year B.Tech with AI Speciality at Swarrnim Startup & Innovation University — turning a self-taught direction into a formal engineering degree.
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Sep 2025 The database year
Eight MongoDB skill badges, end to end: relational → document model, CRUD, aggregation, indexing design, schema patterns & anti-patterns, cluster reliability — then vector search and RAG on top.
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Sep 2025 AI — both sides of it
IBM SkillsBuild AI foundations, then Codecademy's Prompt Engineering: Generative AI for System Hacking at 100% completion. Building with AI and red-teaming it in the same month.
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Sep–Oct 2025 Microsecond memory
Redis fundamentals, then Redis for AI — semantic caching, vector similarity, and why the fastest database in an AI stack is the one that never touches disk.
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Oct–Nov 2025 The open lakehouse
Three Dremio University certificates: hands-on Apache Iceberg with Spark and Dremio, Apache Polaris catalogs, and Iceberg for analytics & ML — the table format layer where modern data platforms converge.
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2026 → Deeper into the degree
Working through the B.Tech-AI program at Swarrnim and pointing all of this at one target: engineering the data & AI infrastructure layer — and keeping it secure.
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03 — credentials
Certified in public,
one cluster at a time.
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04 — skills
The honeycomb:
seven cells, one stack.
05 — leadership & activities
Off the keyboard,
still on a team.
JG Model United Nations — Organising Committee
Member of the Organising Committee for the 4th edition of the JG MUN Conference (Aug 26–27, 2023) — logistics, coordination, and keeping a two-day conference of delegates running on schedule.
One-Act Play — Second Position
Runner-up in the Inter-House One-Act Play Competition 2022–23 — proof that stage presence and engineering aren't mutually exclusive.
// what teachers say
"Good observation, logical and technical skills… good reasoning ability which initiates good discussions in the class."
— Mrs. Bindu Raphael, Faculty — Computer Science & IT
"An extremely motivated learner with thorough conceptual clarity… believes in self-study and is happy to share knowledge."
— Shailesh Katariya, Faculty — Mathematics
"He knows how to tackle critical situations, take charge, work independently and lead the team."
— Sapan Bhavsar, Faculty — Physics
06 — contact