My GCSP portfolio

GCSP (Grand Challenges Scholars program) is an initiative at ASU that prepares students to address global issues by completing the five competencies that make them a better engineer. These five competencies are Talent, Multidisciplinary, Entrepreurship, Multicultural and Socail Consciousness.

Profile

I'm Dhravya Shah, a freshman studying Computer Science at ASU. I'm particularly interested in the GCSP theme Joy of Living. I love to code and make products that people love. I'm from Mumbai, India. I'm also a lot into design and anything to do with websites, UI, UX and more! I taught myself to code two years ago.

Experiences in GCSP

— Apr 28, 2024 · 8 Min read

The FSE 150 experience: Best class of my life?

This is my reflection on a class I took in my second semester at ASU. It is probably the best class of my life.

GCSP, and why Joy of living?

I absolutely love GCSP because of how it's designed to train me for the future. I chose Joy of living for this program, mainly because I'm really interesting in programming, artificial intelligence and VR. I want to solve the challenges of Enhance virtual reality, Advance personalized learning or Engineer the tools of scientific discovery.

Career & more about me

I sold my first venture, Epikhost, at an age of 16. And then went on to build and fail a lot of times. I also worked as a freelancer, creating and selling discord bots and landing pages. Then, I went on to work as an app developer for Commnete, a startup based in Mumbai, India.

My second exit was Tweets.beauty, a tool to beautify tweets and other web content. I sold it to Hypefury in 2023, and I got an opportunity to work with them as a full stack developer.

I've won several hackathons as well, like Calhacks, by UC Berkeley, which was the biggest college hackathon of the time, and Sunhacks, by ASU and Hack Princeton

My hobbies include playing the guitar, reading books, and cycling. I love travelling and exploring new places.

Work Experience

Mar. 2023 · Aug. 2023
Feature head and Full-Stack developer
Hypefury
As a Project Lead, my responsibility was to oversee and maintain all the codebase of one of Hypefury's core offerings. Typescript, Rust, Python were used in the infrastructure. We utilized NextJS with the “T-3 stack” - ensuring developer productivity as well as a bug-free typesafe codebase.
Aug. 2022 · Dec. 2022
App Developer and Project Manager
Commnete
This was my first job at a startup. Commnete is a management, security and accounting solution for housing societies. I built their security app for guards, using React native and Expo. The security guards have to enter the visitor's information in a smooth simple yet easy to use form, along with other features such as emergency and parcel delivery.
Oct 2021· Apr 2022
Co-Founder
Epikhost
I was the Co-Owner of Epikhost, a hosting company. At our peak, we had more than 5000 members in our active discord community and more than 3000 users. I managed the community, managed finances and some of the technologies that enabled us to grow.

Let's Connect

I'm excited to connect with others via email ([email protected]) and Twitter to chat about projects and ideas. Currently, I'm not taking on freelance projects, but I am open to hearing about potential opportunities, discussing them with you and then potentially collaborating if it's a good fit.