About Me
Hi I'm Hiren, a Software Engineer, currently residing in Port Orchard, WA.
Over the past few years, I've gone from being a hobby dev to becoming a full-fledged software engineer. Some of the projects that I've completed in my past range from school assignments, personal projects, hackathon, or work-related projects.
Most of my work is largely written in Java, Python, and Rust(recently). I have made web-applications, mobile applications, stand-alone desktop applications, CLI applications, custom ETL jobs, and log parsers. Currently, I am pursuing a master's degree now at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization in Computing Systems.
From a hobby dev to software engineer...
My introduction to programming came when I was pursuing a degree in Clinical Nutrition at San Jose State University. I had registered for a C Programming class to meet my unit requirements for the semester. It was not an easy transition to make as a bio major trying to understand the fundamentals of computing. Oddly enough, I thrived on the challenge and ended passing with an A+. This was the motivation for me to take another class in Java programming at SJSU which I subsequently passed with an A as well. The meanwhile I continued along the path to complete my degree in Clinical Nutrition.
While going to school, I also worked as an Inpatient Pharmacy Technician to fund college. Over the years, I noticed several problems that usually caused delays down the chain. Some of these problems include finding optimal medication levels in our automated dispensing machines. Others included logistics of tracking narcotics through the life cycle of a surgery case by reconciling documentation from multiple systems. Some of my initial Python code was an effort to solve the aforementioned problems through the PANDAS and Requests libraries. I was able to reduce the time spent reconciling narcotics in surgery cases by creating a script to combine data from the health-records and the dispensing machines. This was able to cut down a 2-week full-time job to a 2-day full-time job saving hours and increasing accuracy.
This was the precursor to a hobby which would eventually lead me to change my degree path. There was also a shift in thinking, whereas people saw issues, I saw optimizations waiting to happen. This was also when I accepted a job offer to work as a Lead IT Support Analyst, which was drastically different from working in a hospital setting. Towards my last year at SJSU, I had decided to pursue a Bachelor of Software Development at Western Governors University. The change was sudden, but I had felt that it would serve to challenge me intellectually. At this point, I had also gone through a Grow With Google scholarship which introduced me to Android Development and had me making Android applications.
While going to school and working full time, I was able to develop many more pieces of code that helped solve problems in an enterprise setting. I even got a chance to compete in a hackathon trying to develop Voice-UI for Alexa based applications that fit multiple user stories.
I finished my Software Development degree in April 2020 and am currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Computing Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology.