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Venkat Neelraj Nitta

AI/ML engineer with 2+ years building ML and LLM systems in Python. At Staples I maintained and extended the retrieval layer of an agentic e-commerce system and owned the data path feeding it. MS in Applied AI at Northeastern, graduating December 2026.

Open to full-time AI/ML and software rolesRelocation yesBased in Boston, MA

PythonPyTorchDatabricksVector SearchNeo4jRayRAGLangGraphFastAPIDjangoSQL
Venkat Neelraj NittaVenkat Neelraj Nitta
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2026-09started as Lead TA, AAI 5004
2026-07wrapped Staples internship
2026batch tagging on Ray~4 h → 90 min
2026-06shipped QTracklive
nowagentic AI for a global pharmaceutical companyin progress
nowChores on iOS and Android

staples/ · the system I worked on

Jan to Jul 2026I ownedI maintainedteam
Venkat at the Staples headquarters sign
Framingham HQ · 2026
  1. Snowflake15+ tables
  2. Delta tabledaily, changed rows
  3. Product tags~0.8 accuracy
  4. GPU batch inference4 h → 90 min
  5. Retrieval3 indexes + graph
  6. Shopping agentrouting, UI

~300K products, tagged and searchable, every day. read the case study →

projects

InsurAsst workspace: chat over policy documentsInsurAsst workspace: chat over policy documents

insurasst/

Insurance

Claims assistant that answers from policy PDFs with citations, routes each loss to the right coverage, and is graded by its own evaluation harness.

12-scenario eval harness · cited answers
PythonDjangoLangChainFAISSYOLOv11OllamaGemini APIMLflowDockerKubernetes
Artha AI dashboard: asset class performance

artha-ai/

Fintech

A PyTorch CNN that outputs portfolio weights directly, trained on a Sharpe-based objective over 24 assets.

24 assets · equities + commodities
PyTorchDjango RESTReactDockerDVC
QTrack dashboard

qtrack/

Productivity

Study and issue tracker on Supabase with a focus timer that stays correct across devices.

live demo
React 19ViteSupabasePostgreSQLEdge Functions

all projects and hackathons →

github · @Subhash-269

425contributions, last 12 months
64active days
12longest streak (days)
29original repositories
36stars on own repos
2020on GitHub since

achievements

  • Pull Shark x2
  • Pair Extraordinaire
  • YOLO x2

languages across repos

  • Python10
  • Jupyter Notebook4
  • JavaScript3
  • HTML2
  • TypeScript1

open github profile →

experience

Sep 2026 – now
Lead Teaching Assistantcurrent
Northeastern University · Boston, MA
AAI 5004 · Applications of AI for Professionals
Jan – Jul 2026
AI Engineer Intern
Staples · Framingham, MA
PythonSQLPyTorchDatabricksDelta LakeDatabricks Vector SearchSnowflakeRayMLflowNeo4jLangGraphAzureAzure DevOpsGit
Jul 2022 – Aug 2024
Software/AI Developer
Cognida.ai · Hyderabad, India
PythonTypeScriptSQLPySparkSnowflakeRayPostgreSQLKubernetesAWSAzureCI/CDGit

recognition

  • May 2026
    Workhuman-sponsored hackathon · Lighthousewon
  • Feb 2025
    InnovAIte, Northeastern · SmartCart

certifications

  • Apr 2026
    AI Agents on Databricks · Databricks Academy
  • Sep 2024
    Applying AI Technologies to the Workplace · Northeastern University
  • May 2024
    Generative AI with Large Language Models · DeepLearning.AI