About me

Hello and welcome to my website! I'm Sanjana, an aspriring software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This website is one of my creations that I built to showcase my open source projects, talk about the tech industry, link useful resources, and more! My goal is to continually update and add to this site as I build all sorts of things.

A bit more about me

My interest in tech started in high school, where I found myself using the internet more. I grew up in Foster City, CA, which had an abundance of tech companies all around! I was lucky enough to go on field trips to Google's Mountain View campus and Facebook's Menlo Park campus, which made me want to study computer science. I took APCS and joined my local Girls Who Code club, where I started learning JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Ever since then, I fell in love with web development; now, I try and strive to build beautiful and accessible digital experiences!

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Interests

Outside of coding, some of my favorite things to do are play video games, watch some streams on Twitch, practice my photography skills, and cook. Some of the games I play are Overwatch, Valorant, and Apex Legends! I enjoy FPS games, but I also love to get immersed in single player games. Currently, I'm playing through Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which is probably one of my favorite JRPGs to date, right behind Persona 5.

One hobby that I got into during quarantine was coffee. Before the pandemic, I wasn't really a coffee drinker, but I would drink some with my housemates with a french press in the mornings occasionally. I then researched more about coffee and learned about third wave coffee roasters and many different techniques to prepare coffee. I picked up a Hario v60, a scale, and a gooseneck kettle, and now I pretty much drink coffee everyday. My world changed when I started drinking pour over coffee with freshly roasted coffee beans, usually from a single origin. This definitely inspired me to build some projects around coffee, too.

Some other things I'm interested in are food science, pottery, pixel art, skincare, and computer hardware. Feel free to send me a message to connect if you'd like! I'm always open to meet new people and say hello. Thanks for reading!


Tools

Software

  • This website was built using Gatsby and is hosted on Netlify
  • Coding: Visual Studio Code with the Pink Cat Boo theme (although I want to make my own theme eventually!)
    • Platform: Windows 11
    • Terminal: Git Bash

Hardware

I mainly code on my desktop PC that I built in 2019. Specs:

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-9600K
  • CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X62
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO
  • RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB DDR4-3200
  • Storage:
    • SSD: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
    • HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
  • GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080
  • PSU: Corsair RM850x
  • Case: NZXT H500i