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From Vadodara to Fremont: The Journey No One Talks About
Moving countries, starting over, and building a software career from scratch — the sleepless nights, the rejections, and the quiet moments that made it worth it.
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Stories, reflections, and lessons from the journey — immigration, graduate school, building software, and everything in between. Real experiences, written honestly.
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EducationComing Soon
Was the Master's Degree Worth It? An Honest Answer
Three and a half years at Cleveland State. The real cost — financially, emotionally, and professionally. What it gave me that no YouTube tutorial ever could.
CareerComing Soon
Landing My First Real SWE Role at PDDN Inc
After the internships, the leetcode grinds, and the ghosted applications — what finally worked, and the moment I realized I actually belonged in the room.
EngineeringComing Soon
What Building a Job Tracker SaaS Taught Me About Product
I built it to solve my own job-hunting problem. Then I kept building. Architecture decisions, the Prisma schema I rewrote twice, and why multi-tenancy is harder than it looks.
ExperienceComing Soon
Writing Code That Actually Helped People — Green2Gold
Working on donation flows for nonprofits with a small remote team. The difference between code that ships fast and code that needs to work for people who can't afford it to break.
EngineeringComing Soon
Wiring Spring AI Into a Real Product — InboxGenie
How I'm building an AI email assistant with Spring Boot and Spring AI. Prompt design, streaming responses, and keeping latency under control in production.