about me
hey, i'm vidha.
i'm a computer science student, developer, builder, and someone who has somehow managed to turn "i should probably try this" into a fairly unreasonable number of projects.
i've been coding for 3+ years, mostly around python, backend systems, apis, ai/ml, and whatever else a project decides it needs. i've built things for myself, worked on enterprise projects, worked with teams, and spent enough time debugging things to know that the bug is usually somewhere i already looked.
what i enjoy most is probably the building part - taking an idea that exists as a bunch of notes, diagrams and questionable assumptions and slowly turning it into something real.
i also really like experimenting. sometimes that means trying a new technology just because it looks interesting, sometimes it's building a completely unnecessary side project, and sometimes it's taking an idea that probably won't work and seeing how far i can push it anyway.
currently, i'm building contexta
one of the things i'm most excited about right now is Contexta.
the idea started from something that kept annoying me while developing: every project has a huge amount of context around it - decisions, why something was built a certain way, previous attempts, useful information, little things you learn along the way - and most of it disappears into chats, tabs, docs and your own memory.
so i'm building Contexta around the idea of persistent context for developers.
it's still very much a work in progress, which honestly makes it more fun. i'm figuring out the product, the architecture, the problems worth solving, and how to turn the idea into something people actually want to use.
it's one of those projects where i'm learning almost as much from building the product as i am from building the software.
somewhere along the way, i picked up a guitar
this was not part of the original plan either.
i started learning guitar because i wanted to be able to play a few songs.
then came the chords, tutorials, terrible recordings, repeating the same transition approximately 400 times and telling myself "okay yeah i'm getting better."
i'm still learning, but guitar has become my little escape from staring at a screen all day.
i also really like travelling
one of my favourite things about travelling isn't even the destination.
it's the people and the completely random experiences you end up having.
one of my favourite days out was actually with a group of complete strangers.
i didn't know any of them beforehand. we just went out, spent the day together, talked about random things, explored, took photos and somehow came back with a genuinely great memory.
there's something really cool about spending a day with people you've never met and coming back feeling like you've known them for much longer.
this is a photo from that day.
college has been a lot more than college
i've spent a pretty big part of university building things with other people.
through EIS - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Society, i've gone from working on the technical side to serving as Secretary General.
it's taught me a ridiculous amount about people, teams, events, leadership and getting things done when absolutely nothing goes according to plan.
and then there's Accelerate.
i started Accelerate because i wanted a space around people who actually like building - projects, startups, open source, weird experiments, whatever.
it's still growing, but the idea is simple: put builders together and see what happens.
these are some of the people i've gotten to build with.
when i'm not building
i'm probably playing a video game.
i've always liked games, especially the kind where you can completely disappear into another world for a few hours. sometimes it's competitive, sometimes it's a story-driven game, and sometimes i'm just playing something stupid because i don't want to think about code for a while.
between games, guitar, travelling and random experiments, i try not to make my entire personality about programming.
although, let's be honest, it still somehow comes back to programming.
what's next?
more building, hopefully.
i'm interested in developer tools, AI systems, backend infrastructure, startups, and products that make complicated things feel simple.
right now, that means Contexta, a bunch of experiments around it, university, EIS, Accelerate, guitar, games, travelling, and whatever random idea inevitably gets added to the list.
some experiments work.
some absolutely don't.
i've learned to enjoy both.
if you're building something interesting, have a weird idea, or just want to talk - say hi.
