Devarsh Ranpara

Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards.

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:23:16 -0400

Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from?

When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The word is never the start. The word is just the skin. The idea, the consciousness, is the thing sitting under it.

The Smallest Brain You Can Build

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0400

A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.

The Outsider Who Shipped Anyway

Sun, 31 May 2026 12:00:00 -0400

The Ticking Clock

December 13, 2023. It was the last day of my post-graduate IT project management program at Seneca. I was looking at a $30,000 CAD education loan. This included $20,000 for my first-year school fees and $10,000 for the GIC, which was mandatory in 2023. Worse than the debt, I did not have a professional tech job. I was only working part-time at Jump+, which was not going to help me secure my PR.

Let's Talk

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Resume

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Devarsh Ranpara

📧 devarshranpara.me@gmail.com | 📍 Toronto, ON, Canada 🔗 linkedin.com | 🐙 github.com | 🌐 ranpara.net

Professional Summary

Mobile Software Engineer with more than 7 years of experience building native and cross-platform apps for Android and iOS. I work across the full mobile stack, from native development in Swift and Kotlin all the way to cross-platform delivery with Flutter and React Native, and I am comfortable going down to the native SDK layer any time a feature needs it. A big part of my work has been connecting mobile apps to hardware and to the outside world, things like Bluetooth and BLE devices, NFC and contactless payments, geofencing and location, beacons, and USB peripherals such as thermal receipt printers and QR scanners, together with real time event streams. I have owned hard systems from the architecture through production release and field reliability, helped engineering teams grow, and shipped on real deadlines without dropping the quality. I care a lot about clean architecture, a good developer experience for the team, and using modern AI tools to make the day to day work faster.