Hi, I am Gaurav Kumar

I completed B.Tech, majoring in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Surat. I am currently as a Backend Engineer at Merpay - fintech division of Mercari 🇯🇵. I have also worked on Machine Learning, Automation and Full stack projects, and I am trying to build my skillset as a generalist better by picking up similar challenges in my career.

Gaurav Kumar

I have always loved Mathematics, to me those numbers, patterns and the underlying logic made a lot of sense in terms of practicality. So, I was never sure about becomming a programmer, unless I started seeing those patterns here as well.

I have been exploring various tech-stacks for past 5 years:

  • Started with Java as part of High School curriculum, learned OOP and relevant patterns.
  • Worked on simple web technologies uptill Vanilla JS in freshmen Year of University.
  • Hackathons were important to me, and I participated in tons of them.
  • Made applications in React native, with the MERN stack initially.
  • Also worked on integration of Machine Learning algorithms with a FlaskBackend, to improve these projects functionally.
  • Post this, I have got internships and finally first job, where I have worked ingolang, Python, Java, Vue.js, and Cloud Technologies like AWS, GCP, etc.

These are some of the tech stacks I have worked with, there are some other technologies as well, which I have explored till some extent, and I am still trying to do better.

I was also a community leader for ACM NIT Surat, the programming student chapter and we conducted various programming events throughout the year, and helped many of my juniors getting started with their journey of computer science. A key highlight around my tenure here was organising hackathon named Hack DotSlash. This hackathon is quite close to my heart, and I have been rejected here as a participant, only to win it's next edition, then become it's lead organizer and mentor it in the 6th edition. And this 4 year association taught me a lot stuff about people, dev-community, devrels and organisations.

Well, this should give some insight about me and the kind of things I build. Feel free to checkout other section of my website as well, and thanks for visiting!