I'm Dhruv, a software engineer based in Orlando studying at the Burnett Honors College @ UCF.
- Web Dev SWE for Knight Hacks @ UCF
- ML Researcher in biomedicine @ UCF, analyzing enhancer-promoter interactions through neighbor activity
- Competitive programmer for UCF, earned the Top Division II score at the Southeast Regionals 2025.
Working on RICO-32, a PICO-8 style fantasy console with Lua embeddings, a custom sprite engine, a game engine, inbuilt terminal, and a custom environment for running and developing retro games! The project is written entirely in Rust. It's fully open-source, so feel free to explore, experiment, and contribute!
Contributing to Knight Hacks, the official mono repo for all things related to Knight Hacks@UCF. Featuring Blade, the backbone of the 2nd largest hackathon in Florida, enabling 1000+ hackers and mentors to take part in the annual hackathon hosted at UCF, along with systems and solutions that keep Knight Hacks running through the year.
- Embedded & low-level programming
- Systems programming (OS design, compilers, tooling)
- Machine learning & AI experimentation
- Reinforcement learning, agents, simulation environments
- Game development & gameplay systems design
- Web development & full-stack architectures
- Realtime systems (WebSockets, networking, multiplayer infrastructure)
- Databases, ORMs, and backend design
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