// swe intern @ toroa management hk · ai @ hkust

Hey There! I am Snehashish Laskar.

Your friendly neighbourhood programmer.

I’m Snehashish Laskar. I build systems and infrastructure in Python, C++, React and PostgreSQL. I like problems and have worked in writing neural nets written from scratch, reinforcement learning agents, market data pipelines.

~/snehashish — zsh
$ whoami
snehashish laskar

$ cat role.txt
swe intern @ toroa management hk
beng ai    @ hkust, hong kong

$ ls projects/
nebula-ai/   gradiex/    prodbot/
connect4/    chopsticks/ genredetect/

$ cat stack.txt
python c++ sql fastapi react
aws docker nginx postgres

$ uptime
shipping since 2021 █

About

Developing curiosity & production habits.

I started writing code in middle school and it turned into a degree in it. Now I study Artifical Intelligence at HKUST while shipping financial software at Toroa Management in Hong Kong, a hedge fund.

The through-line in my work is building the thing rather than importing it — a neural network library in C++ with no ML frameworks, a Q-learning agent with a hand-rolled rules engine, AWS infrastructure stood up from nothing. Then wiring it into something people actually use.

Currently

Toroa Management HK Software Engineering Intern — trading ops & AWS infrastructure, market research tools.
HKUST BEng Artificial Intelligence, graduating 2029
Hong Kong Open to backend, infra and quant-adjacent work.

Experience

Where I’ve shipped.

Toroa Management HK

Financial Software Engineer

Apr 2026 – present · full-time + part-time

  • Internal financial tooling in FastAPI, C++, React and SQL supporting trading operations and risk management.
  • Built the system infrastructure from the ground up on AWS, with monitoring and internal ops tools.
  • AI and non-AI market research tools for analysing positions and market trends.

Harsha Trust

Full Stack Development Intern

Mar 2023 – Jul 2024 · non-profit · remote

  • Centralised information system and cross-platform React Native app that fixed data fragmentation across 100+ field agents covering 100,000+ households.
  • Backend on AWS, MySQL and Python APIs, with real-time sync, offline support and location tracking.
  • Chart.js dashboards for vaccination-coverage and mortality analytics.

Education

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology BEng Artificial Intelligence · Sep 2025 – present · GPA 3.60
Machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing.
Kodaikanal International School IB Diploma · Jul 2023 – May 2025
Math HL, Physics HL, Computer Science HL.

Awards

Silver Prize, Regional Finalist Global Sustainability Challenge.
Academic Excellence Award, Computer Science Kodaikanal International School.
Distinction, Waterloo Fermat Mathematics contest.
Harvard CS50 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python.

Projects

Things I built, mostly from scratch.

Six of them. Source is on GitHub — read it, break it, tell me what I got wrong.

Nebula AI

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Feb 2026 – present · nebula-assist.com

Production AI assistant platform. Containerised with Docker, fronted by Nginx. Bidirectional Google Calendar sync with conflict-free scheduling for focus sessions, and CI/CD pipelines that build, test and deploy web and mobile clients.

reactfastapipostgresdockernginxci/cd

GradieX

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github.com/snehashish090/GradieX

A neural network library written from scratch in C++. Forward and back propagation, gradient descent and the tensor maths underneath — no external ML frameworks. Modular enough to stack arbitrary layers and swap activation and loss functions.

c++deep learningno frameworks

prodbot

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github.com/snehashish090/prodbot

Documentation agent for small teams. Runs as a git post-commit hook, reads the diff, writes changelogs, feature docs and architecture diagrams. Routing is plain Python rather than model calls, so a typical commit costs two API calls. Output is staged, never auto-committed — a human still reviews it.

pythonclaude apigit hooks

connect4

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github.com/snehashish090/connect4

Connect 4 agent trained with tabular Q-learning over 500,000 episodes and epsilon-greedy exploration. Q-table serialised to JSON so training resumes across sessions. Board logic and win detection hand-rolled; plays a human in the terminal.

c++q-learningrl

ChopSticksAI

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github.com/snehashish090/ChopSticksAI

Reinforcement learning agent for the Chopsticks hand game. Full rules engine, move generation and a Q-learning decision layer that plays consistently strong games.

pythonreinforcement learning

GenreDetect

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github.com/snehashish090/GenreDetect

End-to-end classification pipeline that infers music genre from structured audio features. Preprocessing, feature engineering and supervised training with metric-driven model selection. Packaged so retuning or swapping the dataset is a config change.

pythonml classificationfeature engineering

Stack

What I reach for.

Languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • Java
  • Bash / Shell
  • HTML / CSS

Frameworks

  • FastAPI
  • React / Native
  • Node.js
  • Flask
  • Chart.js

Data & AI

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Pandas
  • Numpy
  • SciKit
  • TensorFlow
  • Matplotlib

Infra

  • GCP CloudRun
  • AWS
  • CLoudFlare
  • Docker
  • Nginx
  • Git
  • Linux Systems

Contact

Let’s build something.

Backend, infrastructure, ML, or something that needs all three. My inbox is open.