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• 4th year CSE student at BIT
• SWE Intern at @Google
• GSoC'26 Mentor for @omegaUp and @owasp
• Strong competitive programming background: Expert (@codeforces), Guardian (@LeetCode), 5-Star (codechef), ICPC Asia West Regionalist ’25
• Contributed over 8K lines of code got 40+ merged PRs to @omegaUp
• Made gsoc. app which had 2k active users
• Knew all the orgs coming to GSoC before official announcement
• Prev [@TLE_Eliminators , Bitacademia]
Specialist on @Codeforces and Knight on @LeetCode have been reduced to child's play.
Remove the AI, and any decent competitive programmer will show you how to catch Pokémon (offers).
Nowadays every CS grad is a Specialist or Knight, and we all know how.
People don't realise the value of competitive programming skills because of AI.
There was a time when being a Specialist meant you'd surely get into an MNC.
I think most startup guys can't solve DSA problems and then say a startup is better.
Since the pay is much better at an MNC, the work-life balance is also better and you have better job security. You can learn anything you want since you have free time, rather than being restricted to the startup's requirements.
Why choose a startup? Is there any better reason?
In the LLM era, only fools build portfolio websites.
Recruiters won't look at your portfolio before hiring. Every candidate has a different style, which makes it irritating for recruiters who have to go through so many of them.
@LinkedIn is the best standardized portfolio for everyone. I always prefer @LinkedIn over a personal portfolio.
Portfolios were just for beginners, to help them learn frontend.
I was one of those fools too, until a few weeks ago when I realized this.
My portfolio is finally live: parascodes.is-a.dev/
Would love to hear your feedback!!! 🤝
#SoftwareEngineering #Portfolio #BuildInPublic
Kabhi kabhi life me sab kuch hota hai, jiske liye hustle kiye, jiske liye sacrifice kiye.. Phir bhi kuch cheezein hoti hain jo sabse zyada important hoti hain, aur humein pata hi nahi chalta.. Jab wo nahi milti, toh sab kuch hone ke baad bhi andar se khaali khaali sa lagta hai...
I went from 2 pull-ups to 10 pull-ups in just 2 months during my @Google internship, thanks to a healthy diet.
Students who stress about building a physique in college are fools.
A healthy body is much easier to build once you're earning well.
B.Tech students usually live in hostels, where eating well is hard.
Now I'm waiting for my next internship so I can go from pull-ups to muscle-ups.
Genuinely happy for my friend today... It makes me happy when my friends do something good or something good happens to them...
Ankit Sisodya retweeted
Built Claude Code (an AI harness) from first principles on @kirat_tw's YouTube channel last night.
cc : @Ankit_Sisodya
Technical skill = Engineer
Engineer + Marketing skills = Influencer
Influencer + Sales skills = Course Seller
Course seller who don't sell to students are founder (sometimes @ycombinator )😕
No matter how many open source contributions you have, no one values you if you don't clear GSoC or LFX. Open source contributions have no inherent value anymore because of AI.
If you seriously contribute to open source for a year or two in college, getting referrals becomes a lot easier
You work with experienced mentors and devs. and making new connections gets easier with your work
People are much more comfortable referring someone they’ve actually worked with or whose work they've seen
IIT JEE provides many students, who cannot afford the high fees of expensive private colleges, with the opportunity to experience a vibrant college life.
I got into Google Summer of Code with the @omegaUp and @owasp, interned at @Google Sheets.
If you want to start your open source journey, check out the thread below
@mr_raj_earth and I wrote this post to help beginners get into open source.
This isn't an anti-AI argument. I use it every day to ship faster. It's an argument about what made open source quietly valuable in the first place: not just the code, but the engineers it shaped along the way.