last online: probably debugging something that worked fine yesterday
current status: abusing claude code at 2am and calling it "productivity"

Final year CS student. India. Government college, no fancy placements. Contributing to aden-hive (YC-backed) as an open source contributor. Previously Power BI dev intern at Softude — built dashboards nobody asked for but everyone needed.

Started writing brute force solutions in 2022. Still sometimes write brute force solutions in 2026. Some things don't change.

I don't have a mentor. I have Stack Overflow, a lot of failed submissions, and a very patient terminal.

current_state = {
    "learning":  ["PySpark", "Airflow DAGs that don't randomly die", "system design"],
    "grinding":  "CF + LC daily — Sahi01 on Codeforces",
    "building":  "distributed workflow engine (mini Airflow clone, Node.js + MongoDB)",
    "applying":  ["MLH Fellowship Summer 2026", "LFX Mentorship Term 2", "Outreachy"],
    "OS":        "Fedora Linux — yes it matters, no I won't explain",
    "tool_abuse": "Claude Code for everything. no regrets.",
    "sleep":     None  # pending
}

tried a PR today. it's 11pm. probably not getting merged this month either.

Currently contributing to aden-hive and picking up issues at TheAlgorithms, HuggingFace Transformers, and whatever YC repo has a good first issue open at midnight.

The strategy: find small repos before they get famous. Merge fast. Repeat.

Languages I actually use

Data stuff I'm actually learning (not just listing)

ML / AI (when the math makes sense)

Tools I use daily without thinking

Codeforces handle: Sahi01

grinding since 2022. started with brute force. still sometimes submit brute force at contest end when the clock is at 0:02. no shame.

topics I can actually solve vs topics I tell people I know:

can solve    → greedy, basic DP, graphs (BFS/DFS), binary search, prefix sums
sometimes    → segment trees, bitmask DP, flows (if I've seen it before)
actively     → number theory, advanced DP, tree DP (getting there)
lying about  → nothing, I stopped doing that in 2023

I actually like math. Not "puts it on resume" like. Genuinely spent a weekend on Bayesian inference and didn't hate it. Read about eigenvalues because PCA stopped making sense. That kind of like.

• probability & stats — for ML that isn't just copying a kaggle notebook
• combinatorics — for CP problems that look simple until they aren't
• linear algebra — SVD and PCA finally clicked after the third try
• calculus — gradient descent from scratch once, never again, but I get it now

• Distributed Workflow Orchestration Engine — mini Airflow in Node.js. Kahn's algo for DAG scheduling, isolated-vm for sandboxing, SSE for real-time logs. It's cursed and I love it.
• LFX Mentorship Term 2 — pre-application contributions in progress
• MLH Fellowship Summer 2026 — essays done, fingers crossed
• recovering my X account (@TheBlackHerald7) — suspended, appealing, will update

wake up → check CF → solve something → commit something → break something → fix it at 2am with Claude Code → sleep → repeat

some days the PR gets merged. most days it doesn't. that's fine. the repo is still there tomorrow.

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