Fellow:Puneeth Gangarapu


Name Puneeth Gangarapu School (Cohort) Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science (2021 cohort) Majoring in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Country India Email gangarapupuneeth@gmail.com

Bio

Puneeth Gangarapu is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in the stream of computer science and engineering at Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science. He was born and brought up in Madanapalle, a town in Andhra Pradesh, India.

He is optimistic and enthusiastic in nature. His enthusiasm is shown in his desire to improve his skills which keep him prominent among his peers. He has a greatest desire of accepting challenging tasks to fulfil his requirements and to reach the targets. He has a keen interest in learning new things and presenting about the new technological trends. He is a good communicator and enhanced his technical skills. He is capable of ventilating his ideas effectively and can establish a good rapport with the people around.

During his schooling, he participated in games, cultural activities and many other competitions. He was elected as House captain, Deputy captain for one of the inter-school groups and later elected as School Pupil Leader in his 9th grade. He has a record in organizing many cultural events. Puneeth is very eager to learn new skills and has an interest in developing larger life programs. In his free time he listens to podcasts, reads books and does online courses to improve his skills. He loves playing video games.

Puneeth is an active listener and firm believer of Naval Ravikant and his philosophy of earning, helping and developing the tech community. Naval Ravikant’s quote , “ Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding,” is very close to his heart. He is passionate about learning blockchain, neural networks and many other cutting edge technologies. His short term goal is to do research in networking and his long term goal is to be a tech entrepreneur and angel investor for many budding companies

Achievements

He served as Captain and Deputy Captain for one of the inter-house school groups.
He was elected as School Pupil Leader when he was in his 9th grade, and served as SPL for 2 years.