Hi, I'm Aarav.

I'm a sophomore at the University of Washington in Seattle, Class of 2029, headed toward Applied Mathematics or Informatics. What I actually care about is narrower than that: the seam where the math meets the product, and carrying one idea the whole way across it, from the spec nobody asked me to write to the thing you can actually click.

That shows up in almost everything I build. When Canvas kept hiding my deadlines, I didn't just complain about it, 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 whole project turned into a refusal to believe it. And because my camera roll is a warehouse of screenshots lying around that I will never find again, I'm building ThreadBack.

In the classroom that has meant working through UW's calculus sequence, MATH 124 through 126, and its core programming courses, CSE 122 and 123, with Probability I next quarter. The courses are the quiet part. The building is where I find out whether I actually understood any of it.

Outside class, I'm an ASUW Student Senator, where I represent 35,000+ students and drafted and primary-sponsored Resolution R-32-08 on financial aid equity for international and non-resident students. I'm also the Finance Head of UW's Raas dance team, running 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 kept since high school. It's where I first learned that explaining something clearly is its own kind of engineering, and I've been trying to do both ever since.