Shivesh M is a software engineer and USC Computer Science master's student with nine years of hands-on experience building performant web and macOS/iOS applications. At USC's MINERVA lab he led development of Patentopia, optimizing SQL over 7M+ records and reducing query times by over 50%, and managed research hiring and deployment at scale. He has production experience at MathWorks and Intel and contributes to notable open-source projects like CodeEdit, where he improved UI/UX and preferences for the macOS code editor. His personal projects include DynaWall, a dynamic wallpaper generator for macOS and iOS, and research on NLP-based lecture video summarization with a paper currently under review. Outside work he blends creativity and focus—often cooking while listening to Radiohead—bringing a pragmatic, user-focused approach to tooling and research.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.90, Master's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.90 at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, CGPA: 9.18/10.00, 3.77/4.00, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, CGPA: 9.18/10.00, 3.77/4.00 at Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram
CBSE - XII, Computer Science, X - 10.0 CGPA, XII - 97% Aggregate, CBSE - XII, Computer Science, X - 10.0 CGPA, XII - 97% Aggregate at Srimathi Sundaravalli Memorial School
📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Shivesh implemented new features for the CodeEdit macOS application, including the dependency and about windows. They also refactored the About and Acknowledgements views, adding a Git commit hash and improving the styling. Furthermore, the user contributed to the AppPreferences module by working on general preferences and UI elements, showing the user's focus on both the visual and functional aspects of the application.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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