commit 7e7aaaa (age 8)
date: 2015
First line of code
A tiny script turned into a habit.
— session started // move cursor to seed life • hold to flood
arnav.gupta
[ curious · driven · collaborative ]
$whoami
chill programmer. always building, teaching, and figuring things out.
$cat bio.txt
cs @ university of maryland. honors college.
i like learning fast, solving hard problems, and building things.
swe intern @ capital one
$
$cat ~/now.md
what i'm doing now
- leading
- →nonprofit software team with Hack4Impact
- studying
- →computer science at UMD honors
- working
- →software engineering @ Capital One
- lifting
- →five days a week, usually
- learning
- →advanced backend systems and how things scale
- watching
- →lebron leave the lakers :(
$git log --author=arnav --reverse
cool things i've done
commit 7eaaaaa (age 9)
date: 2016
Fixed my first bug
Created two smaller, more interesting bugs.
commit 7efaaaa (age 11)
date: 2018
Won my first math competition
My first real award. More followed.
commit 7f8aaaa (age 15)
date: 2022
Taught a robot how to compete
Led programming for Robotics.
commit 7fbaaaa (age 16)
date: 2023
Founded Developer Code Club
Built a team that shipped software for our school.
commit 7fcaaaa (age 16)
date: 2023
Started teaching math
Learned how to make hard ideas feel simple.
commit 7ffaaaa (age 17)
date: 2024
Went deeper into AI at Harvard
Studied how machine learning systems succeed and fail.
commit 800aaaa (age 17)
date: 2024
Built an AI twin
Apparently one of me was not enough.
commit 803aaaa (age 18)
date: 2025
Got comfortable being uncomfortable
New teams, new codebases, short deadlines.
commit 806aaaa (age 19)
date: 2026
Promoted to Tech Lead
Joined as an engineer and quickly earned the chance to lead.
commit 807aaaa (age 19)
date: 2026
Started moving money
Built payment workflows in Go and AWS at Capital One.
HEAD → main
...currently committing
$ls ~/photos/ --grid
life, unsorted
// h4i, $10k for good
// day 1 at cap1
// built robots that won
// tech events on campus
// definitely a hole in one
// go terps, obviously
// baked, not deployed
// big bball guy