MAHAJANET

Hello there, I AM Jahnavi.

I code, and as an entrepreneur, I love building stuff that is cool.

i DO PHILOsophy, and FIND GREAT JOY IN ASKING DIFFICULT questions and stickING with them.

i write short fiction every day.

I TAKE BLACK & WHITE PHOTOS FOR GELATIN SILVER PRINTS.

i like plants, mountains, JAZZ, and cows.

Most recent update: November 19, 2024 - Hello, I just put this site up. Hello world!

THE PART ABOUT BUILDING COOL STUFF.

 
I worked as a Hybrid Cloud Engineer at the Red Hat NYC office from May-August 2023 on the Devfile product. As a part of this internship, I developed the complete suite of docker compose functionality and built a user friendly package for the Kompose CLI tool, resolving a 2-year old ticket and saving Red Hat engineers tons of time. 
I co-founded Levytation with a friend from college, and was the CEO between Fall 2023 - Fall 2024. I worked with a team of 4 to build a second data driven brain to help small business managers make objectively better business decisions. We served 32 locations over 5 states in the US, receiving positive reviews from the industry. We won the Best AI Startup at Rice's NRLC competition, and received 15K as a part of Rice's prestigious Summer Venture Studio accelerator program.
As a part of the RiceApps club worked as a Full Stack Software Engineer on an Agile team to develop psy.cl: a period tracking & daily health recommendation cross platform app for the Houston community.											

As a software engineer and researcher for CHIL, I ran studies across 52 participants over the course of a semester using an interactive Python based data collection program to improve the VEGA (Visual entity group algorithm) by 44% across 2 experiments. Co-author on the paper accepted by The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025.
As a teaching assistant for Rice's biggest Computer Science classes: COMP 140 (Computational Thinking) and COMP 182 (Algorithmic Thinking), I held weekly office hours, extra office hours, and built a space for learning, collaboration, and pre-exam help. 																																		

I did Natural Language Processing for Prof. Michael Becker's computational linguistics team during my senior year of high school to develop a web app demonstrating computational modeling of lexical word formation.

AND THE PART ABOUT PHILOSOPHY.

I'm fascinated by metaethics, value theory, some metaphysics, the nature of the self, and Vedantic philosophy.

Currently, I'm drawn to the works of Plato, MOORE, Schopenhauer, and Iris Murdoch.

At Rice University, I take classes and seminars at the Rice Philosophy department. Classes and seminars include: History of Philosophy I, History of Philosophy II, Mathematical Knowledge, Advanced topics in Ethics, Advanced Topics in Social and Political Philosophy, A Seminar and Consciousness and a Self of Self, A Seminar in the Inception of Analytical Philosophy, 2Oth Century Women Philosophers, and probably some others.
I also serve as the student president of the Houston Institute, a weekly philosophy and literature reading group.

AND THE PART ABOUT FICTION.

Stay tuned, folks.

AND THE PART ABOUT FOTOS.

Stay tuned, folks.

AND ALSO THE PART ABOUT INTERESTING SIDE JOBS.

I worked as a cashier at the Hoot, a late night food and snack shop serving hungry Rice students.
I was the Editor-in-Chief of my highschool newspaper, and I sometimes write for the Thresher.
I worked as a gardener taking care of plants at the Rice Holistic garden.
I ran an FCC complaint radio special for KTRU, Rice's radio for a semester.