I am a penultimate year software engineering student at the University of Auckland.

Summary

Hi, my name is Naren and I am an aspiring software engineer based in Auckland, New Zealand. Currently, I am pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Software Engineering at University of Auckland.

I enjoy working in within the realm of web development and machine learning and am really looking for opportunities to gain practical experience in full-stack development and learn the entire software development life cycle.

I have a wide range of hobbies and passions that often times keep me busy apart from engineering. From playing sports, working out to hiking while relishing the beautiful New Zealand nature.

Skills

Taitamariki Potentia

Project manager and developer of the web application with the aim of easing 1000+ students wanting to step foot into the tech industry.

Next.js

TypeScript

Firebase

ASPA V2

Full-stack developer in an agile team of 10 to develop the event registration web application for Auckland University Pool Association (ASPA) which supports payment of events through Stripe.

MERN

JavaScript

Tailwind CSS

Quick Draw

Game to improve young children's speed drawing abilities through a range of words with varying difficulties and modes in a team of 3 for SOFTENG 206 using JavaFX. A ML model was implemented using PyTorch to predict the drawings.

Java

CSS

PyTorch

Sapling

A web application that provides a gamified experience for co-workers to help them socialise within the workspace via Slack API. Awarded 2nd place for DEVS x GDSC 2023 hackathon.

React

Node.js

Express.js

NutriScan

A real-time system that detects barcodes of food and drink products using OpenCV and Pyzbar via the user's webcam. Upon detection, it then fetches information from Open Food Facts API to retrieve information about the product's name, brand and nutrient level which will then be displayed to the user.

Python

OpenCV

Pyzbar

This Website

This website that your are looking at right now. It is also responsive too and was made using Next.js while the contact form below utilises EmailJS.

Next.js

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Software Engineering Intern

Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

Spark Business Group

Worked on Automated Road Inspection (ARI) for Fulton Hogan by assisting in the development of a machine-learning model that would determine cracks on roads using AWS Sagemaker, PyTorch and OpenCV.
Implemented semantic segmentation algorithm which predicted the mask model at 50% accuracy
Assisted in the development and migration of a Landing Zone Test codebase to AWS SDK Go V2.

Project Manager

Mar 2023 - Oct 2023

Taitamariki Potentia

Leading an agile scrum team of 9 developers to build a web application to promote Taitamariki Potentia using Next.js and Firebase to 1000+ users.
The application has a content management system (CMS) using Notion that allows non-technical users to effortlessly change content on the website.
Working cross-functionally to define product roadmap, requirements and deliverables with stakeholders, developers and designers.