Hey, I'm Ishaan
I'm a CS student @ UIUC, passionate about building impactful technology and solving complex problems. I love working across the stack, from real-time web apps to AI-powered tools.
Experience
- Giest VR Metaverse, Gies School of Business (UIUC) (Jan 2025 - May 2025): Developed and designed a VR-based platform to help teach students in a virtual environment. Focused on environment design and reducing latency for real-time conversations with an avatar of a renowned UIUC business professor.
- Software Developer Intern, Jinship (Disruption Lab) (Sep 2024 - Dec 2024): Led feedback system design, improved chatbot workflows, and optimized client-side code for 25% faster responses.
- Software Developer, Illinois Space Society (Sep 2023 - Dec 2023): Rebuilt flight monitoring system in React, boosting performance by 70% and leading a UI/UX redesign.
- Founder, NFT Reality (Dec 2021 - Feb 2023): Launched a VR-based NFT marketplace, managed a 10-member team, and built a community of 700+ members.
Projects
- Hephaestus: AI context/memory layer for LLM agents, modular OpenAPI tool schema, and real-time execution streaming. (Next.js, TypeScript, LangChain, AWS)
- Docnest: Real-time collaborative text editor with Yjs CRDT, custom WebSocket layer, and AWS deployment. (React, TypeScript, Node.js)
- Nasdaq ITCH Market Data Decoder: High-throughput binary decoder for Nasdaq ITCH 5.0 protocol (650K msgs/sec, 1.68µs latency), with zero-copy parsing, profiling, and CSV export. (C++, mmap, Makefile, perf, valgrind, CSV)
GitHub Activity
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS in Computer Science, James Scholar Honors Program, May 2026)
Relevant coursework: Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Systems Programming, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, Probability & Statistics.