Hi, I'm Vijit Dua
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Software Engineering Intern
Happen Bank (formerly Lending Club)
June 2026 – August 2026
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Software Engineering Intern
Lending Club
June 2025 - August 2025
100+ duplicate modules merged into one Django-React platform; 17k+ MAU
Jr. Application Developer
UC Davis IET
February 2025 - Present
Shipping and modernizing campus software used daily by 10k+ UC Davis students
Team Lead - Web Development
Icarus Development
July 2024 - September 2024
Led a team of 7 freshmen engineers; managed Dev. Ops.
Deep Learning Researcher
KAIST
July 2024 - July 2024
0 Deep Learning Knowledge -> U-Net satellite segmentation; F1 = 0.73
Volunteer Peer Tutor
SchoolHouse.world
August 2022 - January 2023
Tutored AP Physics & SAT with 98% positive ratings.
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University of California: Davis
B.S. in Computer Science
September 2023 – June 2027 (expected)
University of Hong Kong
Semester Exchange
September 2024 – December 2024
D.A.V. Public School, New Shimla
K-12 | AISSCE | CBSE
2010 - 2023
Skills & Technologies
My Journey
2023 • Fall
CLI Projects | The Basics
Exclusively coded in C, building only basic CLI apps.
Good at logic and critical skills, but didn't build anything actually useful yet.
2024 • Winter
The ZERO-TO-ONE Jump | Web Dev
From knowing ONLY C → learning web dev in 2 weeks.
Built a multiplayer tic-tac-toe game.
Later, coded ~70% of a hackathon project as a freshman in a team of 3 juniors.
2024 • Summer
Extreme Learning & Leadership | Deep Learning
KAIST / Icarus
Knowing zero ML, learned deep learning basics to CNNs in 1 week.
Then built a U-Net road segmentation model achieving 0.73 F1.
Team Lead at Icarus; shipped 5+ web apps and set up CI/CD (while doing research in South Korea).
2025 • Winter
The Startup Grind | InnoGreet
InnoGreet
Y-Combinator Cofounder Search alternative — InnoGreet 🚀.
Built solo; managed a 300+ file monolith.
Faced the reality of failure 3 months in, and learnt from it.
2025 • Spring
Hackathon Speedrun
SacHacks VI '25
Built Lavender with a dope UI in ~5 hours.
Led a calm, efficient team while most teams were under pressure.
2025 • Summer
Enterprise Impact
Lending Club
SWE Intern at Lending Club.
Consolidated 100+ duplicate modules used by 17k+ monthly users.
2025 - 2026
Customer Obsession
Aggie Schedule Sniper: Found real campus pain point; gained hundreds of users.
UCD IET: Rebuilding campus mobile app used by 10k+ students
More: Soon... (two projects under work rn ;))
I've also lived a fulfilling social & creative life.
Check out my creative footprint 🎵.
Learn more about me beyond my work.