I have recently completed my 4th semester as an undergraduate Software Engineer. I have been coding an average of 6 hours a day for approximately 3 years at this point, which puts me to the pile of ergophilics I suppose. I enjoy building/rebuilding software, reading books of documentation, and using frameworks/design patterns to upgrade codebases and find peace and satisfaction in it.
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I started out in late 2022 with typing HTML and CSS for 3 months (and a fair bit of what's called JavaScript) for absolutely nothing in exchange but curiousity. Curiousity lead to further curiousity and I ended up learning the basics of C++. Next I remember I was making tools, CLI-based games and all kinds of weird things that were moved close to the recycle bin soon.
One year later, I had to choose a major at NUST and I chose Software engineering. First semester was rough, (but that's irrelevant here) I wasn't getting the time to do what I wanted to do. In second semester, I ditched whatever coursework was keeping me busy and started learning python (around end of 2024).
I casually again spent 3 months (about half-a-semester) building a unique python desktop app with absolutely nothing in exchange. The app is still here on GitHub (caps because I like GitHub and live on it now). I felt accomplished after finishing it. It was a floating icon with nice animations that you could add scripts on in the language I defined in it and those scripts then each bind to a button and a shortcut key.
At the near-end of that semester (start of 2025 as far as I remember) I met this person. He was magic. For our semester project I was having a hard time deciding what to do, he pulled off this project. It was truly way above my level of understanding. I could hardly contribute before the project deadline went by. But the following summer, I did contribute, I even re-typed all of the c# codebase myself to prove I can do it.
After this I went to try out ML. Vibe-coding was at peak (or so I thought through wishful thinking) so I used my crap prompting skills to get a YOLO-model to work with identifying objects in Handdrawn logic circuits (wow I trained a model but don't know how I did it, such is the result of vibe-coding).
The next Summer I spent building my social media presence (by this I mean LinkedIn and GitHub ofcourse). 3rd and 4th semesters were full of learning (2025-early 2026). I again casually spent a lot of time building this to sharpen my python skills and maybe get something acceptable open-source and was still somehow okay with getting nothing in exchange. I also built this search engine, but the UI had to be vibe coded because of tight deadlines.
Anyways this was when I learned
React.js,Next.js,TypeScriptandTailwindCSSand all the other web tech keywords. I was able to type out web pages in less than a day and acquired TailwindCSS after my practice with this. This was made during my 4th semester when I abandoned vibe-coding completely (I still use LLMs in general but only for leverage, most of the time I am just crawling documentation manually to study it).At the end of my 4th semester, and hence, now, I feel like my software-building skills are developed enough to not be using vibe-coding as an excuse for a midnight deadline. I can build/rebuild about anything with enough context and some discussions with Claude. In fact, I now dislike vibe-coding because of the technical debt it ships with each bit of code. Everything done by an LLM is just so low-quality if not done carefully.
And that's it, that is my intro. I lowkey wish I could give a full introduction like this in interviews but oh well. Anyways:
Summing up, I have spent approximately 2 years on python, 1 year on web tech, 1 year on DOTNET (c#, avalonia, and Mvvm mainly and the years mentioned here overlap ofcourse). I mainly use Cursor (code editor) for coding. (because it's autocomplete is magic and uses the whole codebase as context)
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A circuit simulator capable of Simulating a Mini-CPU and generating logic circuits from handdrawn sketches offline by using a shippable YOLO fine-tune.
More importantly, have you seen a circuit simulator with this kind of UI before? This project has a lot of potential long-term which is why I am going to continue to build it.
This is a list of my repositories grouped by respective tech stacks. Each project you'll find here is complete and high-quality.
python
This is the language I like the most, and so, I have typed it the most.
pyqt
I use PyQt for GUI for desktop apps in python.
over-engineered calculator
pyinstaller (GUI wrapper for the original one)
tesseract
It's free and open source. Perfect for screen scanning.
A complete patch for safe browser using OCR (educational purposes only ;)
others
I probably can't group these in any of the above categories, so I put them here. These are special.
gitree (it's a cli-tool I created and I use it regularly)
Typescript
Interesting syntax. But that doesn't mean I like javascript.
C#
Avalonia (+CommunityToolkit.Mvvm)
Mvvm Toolkit comes in handy when working with Avalonia. It's basically a library that helps implement the Mvvm design pattern better. Avalonia itself is also convenient for desktop app development.
Circuit Simulator (with offline AI-features)
C++
I don't see any difference in speed compared to python if both are optimized. But explicit types are kind of useful for readability.
others
No major libraries/frameworks here.
DSA stuff. Well-known and self-proclaimed Algorithms and some Leetcode problems.
A virtual file system (created while learning OS fundamentals)
timeline
July 2025 - Present (~1 Year) : Freelancing at Fiverr
March 2026 - April 2026 : Backend Developer Intern (MERN Stack) at Codexon Solutions