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Baltimore, Maryland, United States

1. Operated on projects involving Boston Dynamics SPOT and Clearpath robots for land surveillance and complex operations in a contested environment.2. Proficiently employed ROS (Robot Operating System) to enhance robotic functionalities by improving inter-robot communication using messaging services like MQTT, MongoDB. 3. Applied Python programming and leveraged object-oriented programming (OOPS) concepts for efficient code development involved in the SPOT robot's navigation to a GPS coordinated location. 4. Utilized spot-sdk and techniques like SLAM/GMapping to create visual map for localisation.5. Developed Audio input based Visual Question & Answering bot using Llava-v1.6 LLM to speak with the robot and get its mission status. 6. Fine-tuned the LLM application using Prompt engineering and RAG techniques on the RGB & Thermal images using vector embeddings and Pinecone.

Maryland, United States

1. Built and deployed 5 AI-driven web applications in 5 weeks, utilizing React.js, Next.js, Firebase, Clerk, Vercel, and AWS. Followed agile methodologies with weekly sprints and employed CI/CD practices for iterative deployment and continuous optimization.2. Developed and deployed an AI-powered customer support chatbot for Delta Airlines, featuring a custom RAG pipeline using Llama 3.1 8b model, OpenAI, Pinecone, and AWS. Integrated multi-language support, feedback mechanisms, and user authentication to enhance user experience.3. Collaborated in a team of 3 to create and launch a SaaS product that generates dynamic flashcards using Llama 3.1 LLM via Vercel, incorporating with Clerk and custom pricing plans with Stripe API, scaling to 200+ users within 24 hours of launching. 4. Implemented a web scraper to extract data from Rate My Professor, updating a Pinecone index and integrating with a RAG pipeline using LangChain, OpenAI GPT-4o and delivering up-to-date and relevant user responses.5. Engineered and deployed a feature-rich pantry tracker app with Next.js, React.js, Firebase, and GPT-4o including functionalities like item management, creative recipe generation, and item identification using OpenRouter API, AutoML, and GPT-vision API.6. Engaged in weekly sessions with industry experts from Google, Y Combinator, Amazon, and venture-backed startups, continuously enhancing technical and professional skills while fostering collaboration and innovation within teams.

Tamil Nadu, India

1. Developed robust, scalable, and secure web applications for applicant tracking systems, ensuring business continuity and client satisfaction.2. Designed and configured databases and backend applications, contributing to a 38% increase in application efficiency.3. Developed, tested, and debugged software tools to enhance internal user experiences using React.js, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.4. Utilized Python requests to consume APIs, read JSON reports, and automatically log bugs for intermittent issues.5. Designed APIs and utilized Docker to transfer data from legacy projects to AWS Cloud Cassandra database during the enhancement stage.

Gurgaon, India

An IoT based solutions for modern lifestyle including Automatic ATM Security, pH analysis report for Indian Government from various Sugar plant sites in India.1. Designed and developed security system based on BeagleBone Black using various sensor data analyzed data like PIR movement, Temperature and Door lock system.2. Executed system to generate alerts to 3rd party security and maintenance team to take care of the local ATM in case of any alerts raised by the security system in the ATM lobby. 3. Programmed the cron-jobs to execute the shell scripts to raise alerts on web portals. 4. Integrated PTZ camera modules to IP networks and main system to capture photos of the incidents in the plant.

United States

Collaborated with Red Hen Labs as a Google Summer Intern for the forced-alignment of text to voice of real-time news video feeds according to the uttered timing of anchors for the impaired watchers using NLP techniques and databases from Edinburg speech tools of words using Shell and Python Scripting.1. Transcribed words from video to text in Real Timing by running scripts in HPC using NLP Techniques. 2. Used various tools to transcribe words from video using SOX, ffmpeg, Kaldi.3. Executed alignment of words transcribed to the timing of the video using ATLAS and Shell scripting4. Programmed cron-jobs to execute python and shell scripts in HPC

Master'S Degree, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Relevant Courses: 1. Management of Information Systems 2. Structured Program Analysis and Design 3. Advanced Database Projects 4. Deep.

B.Tech, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Relevant Courses: Objective C, Data Structures and Algorithm, Object-Oriented Programming, Python Programming, Embedded C and VLSI design