About Me

Who I Am

Hey! I'm Arnav, a full-stack engineer and grad student at SJSU, pursuing a Master's in Computer Science. I spent two years at PayPal building tools to support fraud detection, automated underwriting using GenAI, and prior to that, I worked on automating infrastructure provisioning for ETL pipelines at Hevo Data. I have also built and shipped multiple cross-platform apps and websites as a founding engineer for several startups during my undergraduate studies.

Recently, I have been obsessed with hackathons, something about ideating and building to compete in 24 hours is addictive. It almost models the competition that happens on a large scale in tech. My recent wins include Cal Hacks 12.0, Solana Renaissance, HackNight at GitHub, HackwithBay at Microsoft, Future of Agents Hackathon, Hack for Social Impact, Top 6 at Google's Gemini Hackathon for TED AI, the YCombinator hackathon, MLH Hackathon with Digital Ocean, and more!

Outside of coding, I believe some skills get unlocked when you walk the line between order and chaos. I've been dipping my feet into rock climbing, surfing, learning guitar (even performing solo on stage), skateboarding, and, honestly, anything that pushes me out of my comfort zone. These experiences have taught me resilience and adaptability in ways that sitting behind a screen never could. When I'm not building something or trying not to fall off my skateboard, you'll find me working on side projects or exploring new AI tools. Always down to chat about full-stack development, AI applications, or swap stories about learning something completely new!

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Experience

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Software Engineer (SDE 2)

PayPal

Jul 2023 – Aug 2025

Built fraud detection systems and LLM-based automation reducing manual review time by 71%.

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SDE Intern

Hevo Data

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023

Automated ETL infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, improving uptime from 93% to 97.5%.

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Apprentice

Google Cloud Sprint Bootcamp

Jun 2022 – Jul 2022

Completed intensive cloud architecture training on Google Cloud Platform.

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Web Developer

Consuma

Apr 2022 – Jul 2022

Built responsive web applications and RESTful APIs for early-stage startup.

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App Developer

Fond Pets

Jun 2021 – Feb 2022

Built cross-platform mobile app with Flutter and web platform with React.

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Web Development Intern

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021

Built internal web apps using SharePoint and Power Apps with React and Node.js.

Skills

Languages

Java Java
Python Python
TypeScript TypeScript
JavaScript JavaScript
Dart Dart
Go Go
C C

Frontend

React React
Next.js Next.js
Flutter Flutter
Astro Astro
Tailwind CSS Tailwind CSS

Backend

Spring Boot Spring Boot
Node.js Node.js
Express.js Express.js

Databases

PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MongoDB MongoDB
Redis Redis
Firebase Firebase

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS AWS
Docker Docker
Kafka Kafka
Terraform Terraform
Ansible Ansible

Tools & Others

Git Git
Datadog Datadog
Solana Solana
Android Android

Achievements

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Solana Renaissance

Solana Global Hackathon • 2024

1st Place Okta Track
2nd Place ONDC Track
1st Place Reclaim Protocol Track

Won 3 track awards at Solana Renaissance, Colosseum's global hackathon: 1st Place Okta Track, 2nd Place ONDC Track, and 1st Place Reclaim Protocol Track, competing among thousands of developers worldwide. Built Aloy, a blockchain-powered loyalty platform for India's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) using Solana. The platform uses Soulbound NFTs to store loyalty points and achievement badges, creating immutable proof of consumer behavior. Implemented full Beckn Protocol specifications with microservices architecture including BAP/BPP layers. Achieved 1,000+ downloads with adoption by 4 businesses.

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Cal Hacks 12.0

World's Largest Collegiate Hackathon • 2025

Fetch.ai Winner
Internship Interview Opportunity

Won the Fetch.ai Best Deployment of Agentverse track at Cal Hacks 12.0, the world's largest collegiate hackathon held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, October 24-26, 2025. Over 3,300 hackers and 700+ projects competed. Built Pointer, a revolutionary human-computer interaction tool that brings AI directly to your cursor—no app switching, browser hopping, or copy-pasting required. Simply select text, hit a hotkey, and get instant AI assistance for writing emails, refactoring code, fact-checking, drafting documents, and planning your day.

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HackwithBay

Financial Agents Hackathon at Microsoft • 2025

2nd Place Overall

Secured 2nd place at HackwithBay Financial Agents Hackathon, hosted at Microsoft's Mountain View office on October 3, 2025. Built Delta Learn, an AI-powered education platform that solves contextual alignment in professional learning. The platform addresses the challenge professionals face when moving across countries, industries, or regulatory systems by teaching 'the delta'—connecting what professionals already know to what they need to learn through contextualized AI-powered learning paths.

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Gemini x TED AI Hackathon

TED AI San Francisco x Cerebral Valley • 2025

Winner - Helicopter Ride Prize (fetch.ai)

Won a helicopter ride prize sponsored by fetch.ai at the Google Gemini Hackathon hosted by Cerebral Valley and TED AI San Francisco on October 18-19, 2025. Built an AI-powered agentic mouse cursor using asi:one that provides intelligent, context-aware interactions. The hackathon focused on agentic multimodal applications with problem statements across camera integration, whiteboard problem solving, and live slide analysis.

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HackNight at GitHub

GitHub Headquarters Hackathon • 2025

Opsera Track Winner

Won the Opsera track at HackNight, hosted at GitHub headquarters in San Francisco on September 17, 2025. Built Scout AI, a business intelligence assistant integrated with Slack that enables teams to fetch data, generate reports, and share insights without writing database queries or waiting on BI teams. The solution deployed 5 agentic tools for querying data sources, generating and encrypting reports, and sending messages via Slack and email. Leveraged CodeGlide to deploy and manage multiple MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers efficiently.

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Hack for Social Impact

Social Impact Hackathon • 2025

Hacker's Choice
3rd Place

Won Hacker's Choice Award and 3rd Place at Hack for Social Impact 2025, held November 8-9 in San Francisco. Built Pixie Helpline, an end-to-end AI-powered trauma-informed call agent designed to help homeless youth access critical services. The system conducts empathetic conversations to collect information once, then automatically books shelter intake by filling and submitting HSH reservation forms, and even calls hospitals to assist with intake appointments. Named in honor of Pixie Popplewell, a real advocate who dedicated their life to helping homeless youth.

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Gemini Vibe Code Hackathon – SF

Google Gemini Vibe Code Hackathon • 2025

Top 6 (out of 50 teams)

Placed in the Top 6 out of 50 teams at the Gemini Vibe Code Hackathon hosted by Google on November 8, 2025. Built FashionCollab, an AI-powered collaborative design platform that enables designers and clients to join shared virtual rooms, chat naturally about outfit ideas, and instantly see those ideas materialize on model photos powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash. Features a 'Conversation Watcher' agent that listens to design discussions, interprets context using Gemini Pro, and applies edits in real-time.

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Future of Agents Hackathon

AI Agents Hackathon • 2025

Lightfield Founder Empowerment Award

Won The Founder Empowerment Award presented by Lightfield at The Future of Agents Hackathon, a one-day event held on October 17, 2025. Built Vulkan, a network of AI-driven DevOps agents that continuously monitor CPU, memory, and network metrics to enable self-healing infrastructure. The system autonomously detects anomalies, triggers automated fixes, opens detailed Jira tickets with post-incident summaries, and learns over time to reduce noise and improve incident response.

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DSC WoW Top 20

Google Developer Student Clubs • 2020

Top 20 Finalist

Placed Top 20 in Google's Developer Student Clubs Week of Wonders competition and received official Google DSC merchandise including t-shirt and stickers. The competition showcased innovative projects from student developers across multiple DSC chapters.

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Webathon'20 Winner

DSC PESU EC Web Development Hackathon • 2020

1st Place Overall

Won first place in Webathon '20, a competitive web development contest organized by Developer Students Club by Google from PES University EC Campus, held on November 16-17, 2020. Competed across categories including Best Idea, Best Implementation, and Best Overall, demonstrating excellence in front-end, back-end, and full-stack development.

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AppSprint'20 Winner

Mobile App Development Contest • 2020

Best Development Award

Won the Best Development Award in AppSprint '20, a microblogging app development contest held by PES University. The competition focused on building fully functional mobile applications with clean code architecture and user-centric design within a tight 3-day timeframe.