Hi, I am Upsham Dawra and I'm a software developer based in San Francisco, California. I am currently a tech lead in the Discovery team at Goodreads, which is a part of Amazon. I've also worked at Qualcomm Technologies in the past. I hold a Master's degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science earned in August 2013. Before this, I completed my Bachelors in Computer Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Purdue University in May 2012. My interests range from high-level software architecture constructs, web design and machine learning algorithms to low-level hardware description languages and instructions. Some notable interests in between are operating systems, compilers, virtual machines and computer architecture. Lately, I've been focusing more on full-stack or backend web development, especially using AWS technology. In general though, I'm more of a technical guy who thoroughly enjoys algorithms, mathematics and optimization. I love reasoning through problems, and have a passion for elegant solutions.
This webpage will act as a portfolio of the projects that I've done in the past. It will also double up as a place for me to keep in touch with the latest and greatest web technologies, and try out things found on Hacker News. Poke around, take a look at my projects, fork the code for this website from Github, view my professional Linkedin overview , or contact me directly at upsham [at] gmail [dot] com