I’m a Software Engineer who has navigated both Big Tech and top graduate school admissions firsthand. I’ve received full-time engineering offers from Cisco (SDE 3 – Silicon Valley), Apple, and Goldman Sachs, while also clearing interviews at companies including AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Barclays, xAI, ChargePoint, Humane, Atlas SP, and SMBC. At 21, I interned at Nomura Holdings in New York City, working in a highly competitive engineering environment while building systems across enterprise and infrastructure-focused domains. On the academic side, I earned admits to 9 top Computer Science graduate programs including UIUC, USC, Northeastern, NYU, and ASU, along with multiple merit scholarships. At Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, I served as a 4x Teaching Assistant and 2x Lead TA, mentoring 300+ students across systems, programming, and interview preparation.