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Experience

work

Sep 2026 – now
Lead Teaching Assistantcurrent
Northeastern University · Boston, MA

AAI 5004, Applications of AI for Professionals. Review course material for technical accuracy, guide students through assignments, grade, and draft course announcements.

Jan – Jul 2026
AI Engineer Intern
Staples · Framingham, MA

Maintained and extended the retrieval layer (3 Databricks Vector Search indexes and a Neo4j product graph), owned the Snowflake-to-Delta data path, and built the SKU enrichment classifier. case study →

Jul 2022 – Aug 2024
Software/AI Developer
Cognida.ai · Hyderabad, India

Unsupervised claims anomaly detection, retrieval for financial document search, OCR and computer-vision models, LLM fine-tuning and quantization, and an AWS vs Azure serving comparison. case study →

education

Sep 2024 – Dec 2026
MPS, Applied AI
Northeastern University

GPA 3.92. Expected December 2026. Fundamentals of AI, AI System Technologies, Data Management & Big Data.

Aug 2018 – Jun 2022
B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Mahindra Ecole Centrale · Hyderabad

Machine Learning, Data Structures, Big Data Computing.

skills

Languages and backend

PythonasyncioSQLJavaFastAPIDjangoREST APIsDockerLinux

ML and deep learning

PyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowHugging FaceDeBERTa fine-tuningquantizationRay

LLMs, agents and retrieval

LangGraphLangChainRAGDatabricks Vector SearchFAISSembeddingsLLM-as-judge evaluation

Data and cloud

DatabricksDelta LakeSnowflakePySparkNeo4jAWSAzureCI/CDKubernetes (learning)

certifications