$ whoami

prayag@life:~$ git log --graph --all
A git history of my life — every era is a branch, merged into main.
YearMonthmainschoolwork-00work-01personalmeritsCommitEvent
2026
Feb
Ads AI Core Infra (ACI) :: Amazon Demand Side Platform (ADSP)
1st Place 🥇 :: Internal Amazon AI Agents Hakathon
2025
Jun
Eligiblity :: Amazon Demand Side Platform (ADSP)
1st Place 🥇 :: Computer Vision Hackathon w/ Moondream.ai & Betaworks
2024
Oct
Accounts & Permissions :: Amazon Demand Side Platform (ADSP)
Apr
Honorurable Mention 🥈 :: UNICC & Columbia University Thinkathon
2022
Nov
Pricing & Fees :: Amazon Demand Side Platform (ADSP)
Software Development Engineer
Aug
Java Developer

Developed and maintained an asynchronous, scalable messaging platform to support 911, 988, and A2P traffic of 1 million + messages per hour using Java, Apache Kafka, AWS, and Jenkins

Provided on-call support for production traffic using OpsGenie, DataDog, and Sumo Logic to provide 99.998% uptime

Jun
Built and Launched 988 Lifeline

United States National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

2021
Aug
Java Developer
May
Lead Technology Services Advisor

Ran tech support and media services for students and staff

Managed and printed student orders for posters on a Canon imagePROGRAF

Incubated, ran, and established 3D printing as a libary service

University of Wisconsin–Madison

BSc Computer Engineering

BSc Computer Sciences

Certificate in Entrepreneurship

GPA :: 3.466

Year 04 :: Spring // Dean's List
Jan
Year 04 :: Spring // Senior

[ CS 532 ] Matrix Methods in Machine Learning :: matrix algebra, least squares, SVD, PCA

[ CS 570 ] Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

[ CS 639 ] Parallel & Troughput Optimization Programming :: graduate level course on high performance computing (HPC), OpenMP, SIMD, Intel MKL)

[ ECE 219 ] Analytical Methods for Electromagnetics Engineering

[ ECE 901 ] Security, Privacy, & Connected Systems :: graduate level courses

2020
Sep
Year 04 :: Fall // Senior

[ CS 552 ] Computer Architecture :: design a 5-stage pipelined processor in Verilog (WISC ISA), with caches

[ ECE 454 ] Mobile Computing Lab :: Android capstone on department Pixel phones

Aug
Technology Intern

Developed a MVP SSL automated certificate pinning and rotation tool using Angular, SCSS, Node, and Jenkins

Integrated SSL certificate validations into the Jenkins build step using Swift Scripting

Jun
Technology Intern
Jan
Year 03 :: Spring // Junior

[ CS 407 ] Mobile Systems & Applications :: iOS + Android native app development

[ CS 642 ] Information Security :: offensive security, buffer overflows, side channels (Spectre/Meltdown), web, crypto

[ ECE 342 ] Electronic Circuts II

[ ECE 551 ] Digital System Design & Synthesis :: SystemVerilog RTL design & synthesis

2019
Sep
Year 03 :: Fall // Junior

[ CS 537 ] Operating Systems :: operating systems from OSTEP (the UW-authored book): schedulers, xv6 kernel hacking in C

[ ECE 315 ] Microprocessors Lab

[ ECE 340 ] Electronic Circuts I

[ ECE 354 ] Microprocessor Systems :: bare-metal embedded C on an ARM Cortex-M (TI MSP432) with FreeRTOS

Aug
iOS Developer Intern

Desined and creatend an Swift 5 + SwiftUI demo on the iOS 13 beta for how the AmFam iOS app could be upgraded to use Swift UI (launched Summer 2019)

Finished early, so I was tasked with creating an MVP for on-device Photo to Insurance claim ML pipeline in PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Core ML

Placed 2nd in Intern Shark Tank

Created an MVP to help local non profit fight food deserts in Madison, WI

Jun
Year 02 :: Summer // Sophmore
May
iOS Developer Intern
Jan
Year 02 :: Spring // Sophomore

[ CS 354 ] Machine Organization & Programming :: C and x86-64 assembly, caches, virtual memory

[ CS 577 ] Algorithims :: greedy, DP, network flow, NP-completeness (Kleinberg–Tardos)

[ ECE 230 ] Circut Analysis

[ ECE 270 ] Circuts Laboratory I

2018
Dec
Year 02 :: Fall // Dean's List
Sep
Year 02 :: Fall // Sophomore

[ CS 400 ] Programming III :: advanced data structures + a team software-engineering project (Java, git)

[ ECE 203 ] Signals, Information, & Computers

[ MATH 240 ] Intro To Discrete Mathematics

Lead Teacher

Taught engineering and CS to kids from pre-K to middle school

Concepts ranged from basic physics and simple machines to programming and 3D modeling

Jun
Year 01 :: Summer // Freshman

[ ECE 220 ] Electrodynamics

May
Lead Teacher
Apr
Chi Sigma Tau ( ΧΣΤ ) · Δ Chapter
Jan
Year 01 :: Spring // Freshman

[ CS 300 ] Programming II :: Java OOP and data structures

[ CS 352 ] Digital System Fundamentals :: combinational logic analysis and synthesis

2017
Dec
Year 01 :: Fall // Dean's List
Sep
Year 01 :: Fall // Freshman

[ ECE 252 ] Introduction to Computer Engineering :: boolean logic, FSMs, matlab

[ MATH 234 ] Calculus

University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lead Technology Services Advisor
Math & English Tutor

Tutored K–12 students in math and reading

Aug
Oracle Certified Associate — Java SE 8 Programmer
May
William Fremd High School

GPA :: 4.514/5.0

Model United Nations :: EXCOMM

Robotics :: MEMBER

Viking Logue :: TECH EDITOR

Illinois State Scholar

Graduated top 10% of all highscoolers across the state

Mar
Math & English Tutor
2016
May
National Merit Commended

Top 3% of PSAT test takers nation wide

2013
Sep
William Fremd High School
2012
Jan
Piano — AIM Level 6

ISMTA's Achievement in Music — a 12-level graded piano curriculum (theory + performance)

2010
Jan
1st-degree black belt · Taekwondo

1st dan marks proficiency in the fundamentals

1999
Jan
initial commit

shout out mom and dad!