Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology
Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur · 2013–2017 · 78.26%

Got in via UPSEE 2013 (rank 4443). KNIT is a state-government engineering college in Uttar Pradesh affiliated to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University. Maintained consistent academic performance across all 8 semesters — high of 82.3% (sem 5) and low of 76.1% (sem 4).

Coursework that mapped most to where I ended up:

Distributed Systems, Distributed Database, Computer Networks, Cryptography & Network Security
Data Structures, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Compilers (TAFL)
DBMS, Data Mining & Data Warehousing, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Systems
Artificial Intelligence, Digital Image Processing, Web Technology, Mobile Computing

Before that — 7 years at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kushinagar (2005 — 2012). JNVs are India's residential merit-entrance schools, run by the central government. I cleared the JNVST entrance in 2005 (Class 6) and stayed all the way through Class 12. Science stream, CBSE. 83.16% in the boards. The seven most formative years of my life.