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Software Engineer · San Jose, CA
AdityaMaheshwari.
~ whoami
software engineer by day, trail chaser by weekend
~ cat beliefs.txt
→ good code is like good prose — clear, not clever
→ ship it, then sleep. in that order. usually.
→ mountains fix most things. good food fixes the rest.
~ cat impact.txt
→ $160M fraud recovered annually
→ 10K+ AML cases automated per year
→ 25K+ subpoenas/yr, latency cut 55%
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about
I build systems that handle money, protect people, and sometimes auto-file regulatory reports to the government. By day I'm a software engineer at PayPal; by weekend I'm chasing trails and cooking things that require more patience than debugging.
I care about clean architecture, honest writing, and not over-engineering things.
3+
years at PayPal
$160M
recovered annually
∞
tabs open
4
hobbies I'm mediocre at
outside the terminal
🏔
Hiking
trails, peaks, summit sunrises
🏀
Basketball
pickup games, courts anywhere
🍳
Cooking
experimenting without a recipe
🚗
Cars & Driving
winding roads, long drives
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Travel
new countries, no rigid itinerary
recent writingall posts →
01How I automated 30,000 investigator hours with a single pipeline
02Building LLM agents that actually work in production
03Cloud migration lessons: moving compliance infra to GCP
04Deep learning from scratch: what you learn when you can't use Keras
05On cooking without recipes (and coding without documentation)
06What trail running teaches you about system design
07Solo travel as a software engineer: what I'd build differently
08The discipline of finishing things