VG

Work Experience

A winding path through ML, data, and engineering—each stop leveling up impact.

Sep 2023 – May 2025
Graduate Student Assistant • AI/ML
SUNY — Albany, NY

Built an AI grading/RAG platform with LLM routing; improved consistency and saved 60+ TA hours/term.

Oct 2022 – Jul 2023
Software Developer
ZIGRAM — Gurugram, India

Shipped Java/Python microservices for NLP extraction across 20M+ docs; CI/CD on AWS for reliability.

May 2022 – Sep 2022
Software Developer Intern
Hexagon AB — Hyderabad, India

Automated QA with Playwright + TypeScript; +45% regression coverage and faster release validation.

Projects

Chatter – AI Voice Assistant
2024

Realtime multi-LLM voice assistant (FastAPI, Docker); +35% command accuracy; 99.9% uptime.

GitHub Repository
Destinova – AI Travel Recommendations
2024

Vector ‘Destination Genome’ + personalized ranking; +75% precision, 2.1× engagement.

GitHub Repository
Blossom
Feb 2024 – May 2024

Full-stack flower order management (React, Node, TS, MongoDB). AI recommendations lifted engagement ~25%; ops −40%.

GitHub Repository
Stock Market Price Prediction
Sep 2022 – Jun 2023

HMM (4-state) for OHLC trends (~93% accuracy); compared LSTM/ARIMA with ~20% efficiency gain.

GitHub Repository
Ad-Maker
Mar 2022 – Jun 2022

NLP + word2vec that generates evocative promo ideas from features; ~30% marketing efficiency gain.

GitHub Repository
One-Stop
Apr 2022 – May 2022

Internship/job search platform (Flask + MySQL).

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