Hi, I'm Sharan.
About
I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Cal Poly SLO and am currently a software engineer at Plaid, working on infrastructure for the Developer Dashboard.
I work across multiple domains within technology, which currently covers Distributed Systems and Infrastructure. This has taken me across different tech stacks, from Python and Go to Swift and Typescript.
In my personal time, I love watching sports like Basketball and F1, and I enjoy playing competitive first-person shooters like Valorant and Counter Strike 2. I've created some youtube montages of my gameplay, check them out on the right!
Experience
My roles and professional experience, past and present.
Plaid
- Building Infrastructure for the Developer Dashboard
Apple
- Built Drag and Drop Application with Swift and SwiftUi for easily creating upsell sheets for first-party Apple Services
- Focused on Swift Codable and Concurrency to support real time component editing and low-latency sheet-to-JSON conversions
- Built a Send-to-Device Pipeline to route through Apple Media Services Javascript Controllers and display sheets on connected Devices to visualize component differences across other operating systems
Capgemini
- Developed an Automated Testing App using JavaScript and React to automate code generation and streamline code reviews for code repositories and APIs
- Integrated a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service using Python and Flask to dynamically generate tests, improve coverage, and scale test generation
- Automated GitHub workflows and branch management through custom API calls, reducing versioning conflicts and CI throughput
Geopogo
- Engineered real-time augmented reality simulations in C# and Unity for creating and placing buildings in real locations around the world
- Enhanced visualization accuracy and rendering performance in simulations by refining spatial metrics and customization pipelines to increase stakeholder review efficiency
- Created a minimum viable product TAGS in the iOS App for 3D tagging and note features in custom augmented reality creations to increase user and designer interactionM
Hack4Impact
- Worked with Wilshire Health and Community to create a dynamic donation-tracking website with Full Stack, Development, AWS Amplify, and GraphQL
- Built a web scraper for EcoLogistics using AWS Chalice and Beautiful Soup to automate the scraping of untracked data from SLO county websites
- Worked with LCSLO Octogan Barn to track events and form uploads with S3 to total reduce management time and event tracking difficulties
Projects
Selected projects and things I’ve built.
Kitsu
Production-grade anime recommendation platform focused on ML infrastructure, offline data pipelines, caching strategies, and concurrency
Aether
A multithreaded compression tool built to achieve maximum disk-to-disk throughput on modern multi-core processors
Aurora
C++ backend that ingests real-time telemetry, stores data in cache, and exposes low-latency aggregate queries
AniSense
Anime recommender with GCP and locally trained machine learning models, based on your own MyAnimeList Account
MoodMuse
Captures images and entries, performs on-device analysis, and shows music recommendations based on your mood
Aim Trainer / Sensitivity Finder
Procedural drills, crosshair UI, and analytics to estimate optimal FPS sensitivity
Papers
Writing and research papers.
Research on scalable concurrency models, comparing Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) in Go and the C++ Actor Framework (CAF).
Survey Paper on the history of load balancing in Distributed Systems.
Senior project paper published through Cal Poly Digital Commons.
Hobbies
Competitive FPS
I'm tough at Valorant, but my CS2 inventory costs too much to not play.
PCs and (mostly) peripherals
My glorious desk setup with hidden cables (lot of work) and my million mice, keyboards, and other expensive stuff.
Music
I'm a classically trained pianist (California Certificate of Merit Level 10) and an aspiring singer (I got lucky with the genetics).
Formula 1
Following the twists and turns of the global F1 calendar. Go Redbull tho, Du Du Du Du.
Basketball
Watching the NBA and playing pickup games whenever I get the chance. Go Warriors! (They beat the suns in this game).
Anime
Watching anime (and reading manga). Got a massive collection of the media, but my favorite will always be this scene.
Awards & Highlights
Awards and academic highlights.