Hi, I'm Aarav.

I'm an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle (Class of 2029), headed toward Applied Mathematics or Informatics. The honest version: I like problems where the math and the product meet, and I like carrying an idea the whole way, from the spec nobody asked me to write to the packaged thing you can actually click.

That habit shows up everywhere. When Canvas kept hiding my deadlines, I didn't just complain; I built a menu bar app and then pitched UW's IT department on licensing it for the whole campus. When a phishing dataset handed me a suspiciously perfect accuracy score, the project became about refusing to believe it. And because my camera roll is a graveyard of screenshots I'll never find again, I'm building ThreadBack.

In the classroom I've worked through UW's calculus sequence (MATH 124-126) and its core programming courses (CSE 122 and 123), with Probability I next quarter.

Outside of it, I'm an ASUW Student Senator representing 35,000+ students, where I drafted and primary-sponsored Resolution R-32 on financial aid equity for international and non-resident students. I'm also the Finance Head of UW's Raas dance team, managing a $2,500+ budget through a competitive season, which is to say I dance, and I also do the spreadsheets so everyone else can.

The oldest thread in all of this is Hariyali ki Chaddar, the environmental blog I've written since high school. It's where I learned that explaining something clearly is its own kind of engineering.