I'm Ryan — currently a second-year (or third at this point? the trimester system is easier to measure in terms rather than year) undergraduate at SUTD, mostly interested in low-level systems, network infrastructure, and figuring out how things break. I like building projects that aren't always useful but teach me something along the way. Besides projects I absolutely love problem solving.
My major interests lie mostly in computing algorithms (especially graphs), systems, networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity and software development. I love how cool computers are and programming in general, though I still don't understand the appeal of frontend (just keep everything simple and easy to navigate/easy to access) or webdev/mobile dev in general.
I spend a lot of time figuring out algorithms using C, spinning up self-hosted services in docker, debugging config files, and reading and testing documentation I probably wasn't meant to (skill diffed). Most of what I’ve learned didn’t come from a course — just a lot of late nights and putting back together broken containers.
Outside of the technical side, I enjoy philosophy, anime/manga/light novels, and collecting ideas that don’t shout. I try to read widely, and sometimes that shapes the way I code (or the way I stop coding and rethink things).