Jhishan

Jhishan is an aspiring programmer currently studying undergraduate computer science at NYU. He also loves photography and cycling. He is from Queens, NY.

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1995

1995
Jhishan is born in Bangladesh. This is where he spent the first year and a half of his life. He doesn't remember any of this.

1996

1996
Jhishan comes to America. He doesn't remember any of that either. His parents say they were that family on the plane with the crying baby. Jhishan was that baby. He is living in Queens, NYC.

1998

1998
Jhishan prepares for school. His favorite channel is PBS, and his favorite shows are Arthur, Dragon Tales, and Between the Lion. He thinks he can speak English, but actually can't.

1999

1999
Jhishan goes to school for the first time. He learns he enjoys building things with small legos. Lunchtime is cool, but nap time is better. He thinks ESL is an advanced english class.

2008

2008
Jhishan graduates middle school. (I just skipped 9 years because they were rather uneventful. Went to school, didn't get suspended, yadda yadda yadda good times)

2013

2013
Jhishan graduates high school. During senior award night, Jhishan wins the award for rhetoric and prose, and another for community service. He is founder and president of the Environmental club. On the left is his English teacher Mr. Benitez, who essentially taught him how to think.

2016

2016
Jhishan is currently attending NYU. He is very active in the NYC tech community. When he isn't biking or taking photos, he is kicking it with Tech@NYU, the best tech club in the world.

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Justworks was an amazing summer. On the first day I remember my goal was to make a pull request before the day ended. I was pretty suprised that I was able to merge and deploy that pull request the same day. I received a lot of resposibility at Justworks and which led to me being able to learn a lot in a very mentor friendly environment. I worked on a lot of backend code. My big project during the summer was building the full stack implementation of a new permissioning system for our internal administration tool. I worked on smaller things too such as bug fixes and building out views. Overall, I was able to learn a lot about all things web development related with an extremely talented/passionate team.

At Syncano, I was a Junior Developer Evangelist. This meant a lot of things. I built small web applications, attended events, wrote documentation, and much more. On the left is a weather app. The front-end was developed by a colleague and I developed the backend using the Syncano API.

Instapaper

Instapaper was my first dive into real world development. It was an amazing opportunity because I was able to write production code for my first software development job. At Instapaper, I redid the browse section front-end and worked on some of the backend api. I developed the algorithm that figured out in which order to display the articles in this section. The goal of the algorithm was to make the user feel as though they would be reading something new in the browse section, all the while feeling consistent. After doing so, I built the internal api for the browse section to be used for our Android and iOS applications.

This is the user profile section I worked on.

This is an interactive d3 graph modeling some unique data. It was used as an internal tool.

I organize Demodays for Tech@NYU. Students from the NYC area come together once a month to show off the projects the've been working on. The last one was a few weeks ago at Venmo. My role is being the host, and putting the event together. This involves finding event space, fundraising, and reaching out to prominent industry leaders to speak at the event. The event averages 80-100 people.