I started at Swym as an intern in 2022, transitioned to a full-time Associate Software Engineer (ASE 1), and in January 2025, I was promoted directly to Software Engineer (SDE 1), skipping ASE 2. Alongside my work at Swym, I also contributed to Kaggle, achieving an expert rank. Before joining Swym, I worked as a Research Intern at Samsung (Bixby) and was a semifinalist in the Google Solution Challenge. Hereβs a timeline of my journey.
β Started working as a Software Engineer 1 at Swym.
β Worked as an Associate Software Engineer 1 at Swym for 1 year and 8 months.
β During this time, I won Swym's Best New Swymmer Award π (LinkedIn post).
β ποΈ Cracked the Shopify Editions Online Hunt (only 20 tickets released) and traveled to Canada π¨π¦ to attend the event, making valuable connections and gaining insights into the shift from short-term sales to long-term brand building.
β π Worked end-to-end on a Swym product flow - opportunity based product selection, helping brands leverage Zero-party data to personalize customer engagement and improve LTV, both online and in-store via Shopify POS. (LinkedIn post)
β ποΈ Built a personalized Customer Accounts experience, enabling merchants to tailor their customer interactions and make the Customer Accounts page shopper-centric. (LinkedIn post)
Opportunity Page
Engage Popup
Customer Accounts
High Touch Commerce
Best New Swymmer Poster
β Completed an internship as an Associate Software Engineer Intern at Swym for 9 months.
β π Heavily contributed to the development of Swym Gift Registry, playing a key role in building its core functionality and refining the user experience to make it easier for merchants and shoppers to create and share gift lists. This feature helps brands become part of their customers' special moments, increasing customer loyalty and engagement. (LinkedIn post)
β ποΈ Owned the development of Swym Gift Registry POS end-to-end, designing and implementing seamless integration with Shopify POS. This allowed store associates to manage registries, track purchases, and enhance the in-store gifting experience, bridging the gap between online and offline shopping.
Swym Gift Registry
Swym Gift Registry POS
Achieved Kaggle Expert rank (Rank 187 out of 54,051 participants).
Kaggle Expert
β π Completed Research Internship at Samsung R&D Institute India, improving ASR models with data augmentation.
β π Received a Certificate of Excellence and published a paper in the International Journal for Speech Technology.
β π Semi-finalist in Google Solution Challenge 2021, selected in the Global Top 50 for the SafeRide project.
β π€ Trained and Finetuned computer vision models (SSDMobilenet, YOLOv4, ResNet) and LSTM for accident prediction.