Hi All! My name is Arpan. I’m a Software Engineer at Amazon. I did my undergraduation at the Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal graduating with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. I came to college with absolutely no experience in programming/coding and built this skill by participating in coding contests hosted on Codechef and Codeforces. Towards the later half of college, I participated in a lot of hackathons and made some open source contributions at Github. Have a look at my resume here.

I have experience working as an Intern and as a full-time Software Engineer at a few corporates as well as start-ups. I spend some time answering general queries around how my experience has been with such companies, how one can prepare and aim to work here and topics related to Computer Science in general.

Apart from computers and programming, I take a lot of interests in both watching as well as playing different racquet sports and cricket. I like to travel and have been on a couple of international solo trips and aim to increase this count as the years pass by. For travel enthusiasts, follow my posts for solo travel tips!