5th semester B.Com at University Commerce College, Jaipur under NEP 2020. Alongside college I've been at a CA firm for nearly two years — real clients, real filings, real consequences if something's off.
Day to day that means GST returns (GSTR-1, GSTR-3B), ITR filings, bookkeeping in Tally, and assisting in audits. It teaches you things no textbook bothers explaining — like why GST reconciliation is painful, or how most small businesses don't understand their own tax liability until it's already a problem.
Two years of real client data changes how you think about finance. It stops being abstract.
Every financial calculator I found was either drowning in ads, spread across five different websites, or looked like it hadn't been updated since 2009. So I built CalcByDev — 15 calculators, one place, no ads, no signup. The one I'm most proud of is the Prepayment vs Investment calculator, because it helps you make a decision instead of just handing you a number.
Built the whole thing without a coding background. Used AI tools to generate and fix code, tested everything manually, refined based on how it felt to use. That process taught me more than any course would have.