// 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.
$ 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
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
Machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing.
Math HL, Physics HL, Computer Science HL.
Awards
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
→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.
GradieX
→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.
prodbot
→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.
connect4
→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.
ChopSticksAI
→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.
GenreDetect
→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.
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.