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💼 Alcove-Ridge Fintech Consulting
Software Development Engineering Intern
📍 New York, NY📅 Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
☁️ AWS⚡ Next.js💰 Fintech📍 Geo-tech
  • Optimized AWS infrastructure with load balancing → 40% faster responses, 25% server cost savings
  • Migrated to Next.js, improved API response by 35%, reduced cross-shard DB queries by 45%
  • Built fintech event app with real-time geo-tagging → +60% engagement
🍽️ MealsBus
Founding Engineer
📍 Central Valley, CA📅 Jan 2023 – Mar 2025
📦 Cross-platform 📍 Geo-Discovery 🚚 Logistics 💼 Startup
  • Developed a full-stack food delivery and vendor platform connecting 100+ community kitchens & food trucks across Central Valley.
  • Built cross-platform app using React Native, Next.js, and PostgreSQL with tRPC APIs, enabling real-time menu updates and order tracking.
  • Reduced delivery commission costs by 60% for local vendors vs major competitors through freelance driver routing optimization.
  • Scaled to $1.2M ARR and secured $100K seed funding as part of two-time Venture Devils winner cohort under Skysong Incubator (ASU).
🎓 Private Edtech Startup(Stealth)
Software Engineer & Product Dev Associate
📍 San Francisco, CA📅 Dec 2022 – May 2023
🌐 Web Dev🧩 SaaS🎓 EdTech
  • Redesigned core web modules, boosting front-end performance by 40%
  • Integrated SaaS for mentor-student matching → +50% efficiency, 99.9% uptime
🏦 Canara Bank
Software Testing Intern
📍 New Delhi, India📅 May 2022 – Aug 2022
🧪 QA Testing ☕ Java 📱 Mobile Banking
  • Developed automated Java-based test scripts for interest rate modules, improving system reliability and reducing manual effort by 40%.
  • Researched and proposed DB partitioning and backend load balancing optimizations that improved mobile banking speed by 35%.
  • Collaborated with a 20-member team on scalability upgrades and modernization of legacy systems.
🧠 AI-Driven Social Media Sentiment Analyzer
Personal Project
📅 Nov 2023 – Jan 2024
🤖 AI/ML 📊 Data Analysis 🌐 Network Analysis
  • Scraped and processed 10K+ Mastodon posts and 1.5K+ user profiles via dynamic API pipelines with peer expansion logic.
  • Used Llama3-8B to classify toxicity and sentiment scores; analyzed virality and network churn across social graphs.
  • Constructed advanced influence networks using NetworkX: visualized PageRank, degree centrality, and cluster entropy to trace viral content flow.
📈 Agentic Options Trading AI Model
Research Project
📅 Aug 2024 – Oct 2024
🤖 AI Trading 📈 FinTech 🔄 Backtesting
  • Built a trading intelligence system combining FinBERT sentiment, AlphaVantage market data, and indicators (MACD, RSI, Donchian Channels).
  • Implemented multi-factor signal fusion to generate entry/exit signals across options strategies (swing, scalping, intraday).
  • Backtested 5 years of options expiry data; tracked Sharpe ratio, drawdown, and risk-adjusted performance achieving 2.81% monthly capital return.
🔍 Vify AI – Scam & Deepfake Detection Engine
AI Hackathon Finalist (UC Berkeley)
📅 Apr 2024 – May 2024
🛡️ AI Security 🎭 Deepfake Detection 🔊 Voice Analysis
  • Built a multimodal scam detection system analyzing text, images, audio, and video for fake content using AI.
  • Used Hume API to assess emotion inconsistencies in AI-generated speech; added backprop-based heuristics for credibility scoring.
  • Trained classification model on custom-labeled dataset of scams and fakes; achieved 79% accuracy on validation using ensemble of CNN (image), Bi-LSTM (text), and audio feature nets.
  • Ranked Top 10 investable ideas at UC Berkeley AI Hackathon; pre-seed term sheet finalized with SkyDeck advisors.
🎓 AI-Integrated Learning Management System
Prototype System
📅 Jan 2025 – Mar 2025
📚 EdTech 🤖 AI Assistant 📝 NLP
  • Designed an intelligent LMS powered by AI copilots that supported instructors in drafting assignments and grading rubrics via prompt templates.
  • Built AI Teaching Assistants using GPT models to guide students through assignments, answer questions, and give feedback on submissions.
  • Integrated sentiment analysis to monitor student well-being, and activity logs for adaptive learning recommendations.
  • Added peer-review feature with AI summarization and originality check; used vector stores for student knowledge graphs.
👥 Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant & Section Leader
📍 ASU, Tempe, AZ📅 Aug 2022 – Dec 2024
🎓 Education🤖 CS/AI🧑‍🏫 Mentorship
  • Assisted 2000+ students in theoretical CS, AI/ML, databases (SQL), and computational biology courses.
  • Guided students through assignments, grading, and exam reviews across multiple departments.
  • As a Section Leader, mentored 20+ freshmen with one-on-one academic and career guidance, helping them transition into college life and join communities.
🎓 GEAR UP & Bankura Public School
STEM Mentor & Tutor
📍 Phoenix, AZ & New Delhi, India
🧠 STEM Education🧮 Mathematics👦 Youth Mentorship
  • Tempe High: Mentored 120+ high school students in math and science, improving critical problem-solving and logical thinking skills. It is a part of Federal initiative to improve education in the US. (2022-2023)
  • In Bankura Public school, taught classes 5–8 in mathematics and general science (2018–2020), focusing on foundational skills and curiosity-driven learning.
🌍 Community Outreach & Volunteering
Volunteer, Research Collaborator
📍 India & Arizona📅 2016 – 2022
💉 Public Health🧬 Bio-research🧍 Grassroots Work
  • Joined EPICS program; collaborated on CRISPR-based therapeutic proposals for cystic fibrosis, working with Biodesign Institute, physicians, and biotech researchers across Arizona.
  • Led public awareness sessions on financial literacy and COVID-19 protocols for underserved communities in collaboration with Shrestha Bharat Foundation, Adhikar Foundation, and others. New Delhi, India
  • Organized state-level charity marathons and events with Rotary Club Karnataka (2016–17), promoting health and education awareness. Bengaluru, India
🚀 Entrepreneurship & Leadership
Co-founder, Campus Leader
📍 ASU, Tempe, AZ📅 Aug 2022 – Dec 2024
🚀 Startups👥 Student Leadership🤝 Networking
  • Co-founded ASU's first student-led Entrepreneurship Club with a mission to bridge students with startup mentors, resources, and VCs.
  • Organized talks and hackathons, helping early founders find cofounders and seed ideas to ASU incubators.
  • Built a culture of innovation by collaborating with Skysong Innovations, Venture Devils, and local entrepreneurs.