Sept 2024 - Present

Software Development Intern at Education Justice Project.

  • Led the development of a full-stack digital archive website, using Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, and PostgreSQL, resulting in 3,000+ monthly visits and a 40% increase in social media engagement.
  • Achieved a 90% document retrieval success rate by developing an advanced search system with PostgreSQL’s full-text search and Prisma ORM, featuring keyword search and autocomplete for 1,000+ academic records.
  • Slashed content management time by 35% by engineering a Next.js admin panel with role-based authentication, secure uploads, organization, grouping, edits, updates, and deletions for the EJP archive.
  • Created interactive data visualizations using Tableau to support decision-making.

Jan 2024 - May 2024

Graduate Research Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Cleaned and preprocessed 10 GB+ of multi-modal wearable sensor data (100+ participants) from wearable sensors, ensuring data quality and consistency for subsequent analysis.
  • Evaluated and optimized machine learning algorithms (SVM, Random Forest) for hyperparameter tuning to maximize prediction accuracy and F1-score for state anxiety.

Aug 2023 - May 2025

Master's of Science in Information Management at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Current GPA - 3.9/4

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Software Development Intern at Tata Consultancy Services

  • Built frontend components for an OCR application using React, enabling seamless image uploads (handling an average of 100+ images/day), initiation of text recognition, and real-time display of extracted text.
  • Configured RESTful API endpoints using Node.js and Express.js, improving OCR engine integration and reducing API response time by 30%, resulting in faster processing for 500+ weekly user requests.
  • Optimized MongoDB queries through indexing strategies, increasing data retrieval efficiency by 30%.

Aug 2019 - May 2023

Bachleors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at University of Mumbai

  • Graduated with a CGPA of 9/10.