# Hey There! 👋

I'm Shardul Nalegave from Pune, India currently pursuing my B.E. in Computer Engineering from PICT (Pune Institute of Computer Engineering).

If I had to describe myself in short, I'd say I am an avid learner. I was fortunate enough to study in a school which regularly encouraged us to take part in activities from very different fields/topics. In 6th grade, we were introduced to "Coding & Robotics" club where we were taught the Sprite Programming Language and a curious me wondered if I can make my own version of my favorite game at the time, in Sprite! While I soon realised that it won't really work and that it wasn't the "cannon" way to make a game, it set me on course to explore the amazing world of computers.

Learning whatever felt interesting, I went from basic Web and App development to Networking, Systems programming and to some extent Graphics and Game development.

While most of this has been hobby learning, now I plan on pursuing a career in this.

An unordered list of things I'm passionate about:-

Full-Stack Web and App Development: I have experience using MERN, MEVN and Django stacks for Web-Development and using Flutter for cross-platform development. Apart from the widely used stacks, I prefer my own tech-stack consisting of Golang + PostgreSQL + GraphQL on backend and Vite + React on frontend.
Systems: While not very experienced in systems programming, I enjoy writing basic kernels and writing emulators for older devices.
Networking: I like fidgeting around with networking protocols and sometimes writing my own very basic ones. It is amazing how once you get computers connected, you can do some really awesome stuff.
Distributed Computing: It is one of the subsets of Computer-Science that excites me the most. I am currently studying Distributed Computing and while the difficulty is high, it's just fun.
Open-Source: I wish to work on and promote open-source practices. Right now, I'm helping promote FOSS through the organisation FOSS United. The potential we have as a whole community spread across the globe is amazing.
Community Building: I like to help manage communities and also to help organise and attend events.

Looking for internship opportunities!

Reach out if you want to talk about emerging tech, potential projects or anything in general.