🙋🏼♂️ I am Oitihjya Sen, a lawyer-turned software engineer from India. Currently, I work as a backend engineer at Helpshift.
🖥️ I attended the Winter '22 batch of the Recurse Center, New York.
👩🏼⚖️ I have previously worked as a Research Fellow at India’s leading legal think tank (2019-21), where I contributed towards modernizing India’s bankruptcy legal framework.
Here are some of the projects I have built so far:
- 🪄 A per-user URL shortener (GitHub Repository),
- 🤖 A Twitter bot that aggregates blog posts from RSS and Atom feeds and publishes them on Twitter (GitHub Repository),
- 💱 A simple Lisp interpreter (GitHub Repository),
- 🔎 Implementation of Search Relevance using BM25 algorithm (GitHub Repository),
- ⏲️ A meeting scheduler that handles time-slot conflicts (GitHub Repository), and
- ✍ A technical blog (GitHub Repository)
📚 I have written over 40 posts on my tech blog, on various topics ranging from OAuth framework, higher-order functions, JavaScript Promises to cache replacement policies and lazy sequences in Clojure. My articles have been featured on Clojure Deref, JavaScript in Plain English, and the Recurse Center’s Joy of Computing Blog.
👓 I am deeply fascinated by functional programming. I am currently teaching myself Clojure.
📧 To contact me, drop a mail to contact@otee.dev!