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Work Experience
Feb 2026 — PresentCUBS — SUNY Research Foundation · Buffalo, New York
PythonPlaywrightLLM/RAGOpenSearchpgvectorReactOpenShift
Designed a 3-stage async streaming pipeline (scrape → LLM extract → persist) with backpressure-bounded queues across Playwright/BeautifulSoup scrapers for NIH, PCORI, and AAMC grant sources — retry-only persistence keeps the happy path off disk.
Built a dual-strategy LLM extraction system (field-level summarization vs. full-document structured extraction) against an OpenAI-compatible gateway, replacing brittle per-field scraping.
Replaced a grants.gov search dependency with in-house OpenSearch (Lucene query syntax, blue/green zero-downtime reindexing) and added pgvector-based RAG search plus a grant Q&A chat assistant.
Shipped a data-dense React/MUI/Redux frontend and deployed the system (Flask + React SPA, MySQL/OpenSearch/pgvector) on OpenShift with a weekly Kubernetes CronJob crawl.
May 2026 — Jun 2026Channel Core · Irvine, California
OAuthNode.jsPostgreSQLNeonAWS S3CI/CD
Integrated 6 social platforms (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, X) via OAuth with automatic token refresh and credential rotation, syncing 500+ creator records daily with 0 data loss.
Architected separate dev/prod environments on Neon with automated S3 backups and branch protection — serving 150+ creators with zero risk of dev changes affecting live users.
Built a video-level analytics pipeline using YouTube Data API v3 + Analytics API v2, modelled with a Drizzle ORM schema. Debugged a Neon HTTP driver vs. standard Postgres discrepancy in .returning() behavior that silently dropped insert results.
Worked around LinkedIn OAuth's r_dma_portability_3rd_party scope being EEA-only — restructured the token exchange flow so non-EEA users don't hit a silent auth failure.
Jan 2026 — May 2026Safety Knights · Buffalo, New York
ExpressNode.jsAngularMongoDBGridFSnode-cronCI/CD
Shipped a production EHS job board with 4,000 beta users: Express/Node.js API (75+ endpoints, AES-256 encryption), Angular v17 SSR frontend, and a standalone admin console — three independently deployable codebases.
Modelled the data layer with 4 Mongoose schemas — compound, geospatial, and full-text indexes. Multi-axis job search and hourly listing expiration via node-cron.
Built full candidate pipeline — GridFS document storage, 5-stage status tracking, 3 automated email flows — with admin filtering by location, experience, and certification.
Sep 2024 — Jun 2025Carwale [CarTrade Tech] · Mumbai, India
ReactReduxJavaScript.NETMySQLCI/CD
Shipped a 68-component Oxygen Design System — improved accessibility and performance for a user base in the millions.
Built React/Redux frontends across multiple product verticals; cut page load times via DOM restructuring, lazy loading, and image-rendering improvements.
Built developer tooling (unused-CSS detection, import management, build optimization) and a modular Template Engine for ad generation; led responsive micro-site and dynamic UI development.
2024Full Stack Web Developer Intern
Kutchi Printers & Allied Industries Association · Mumbai, India
NextJSMySQLCI/CDVPS
Built an inquiry routing portal for a printers' association — clients submit inquiries by printing category, automatically distributed to matching members via email. Included member advertisement placements and a scalable admin interface.
2022 — 2023Full Stack Web Developer Intern
Indian Development Foundation · Mumbai, India
NodeJSReactJSMySQLVPS
Developed a role-based web portal (teachers, students, administrators) for Balgurukul school management. Replaced manual Google Forms grading with a custom UI that eliminated redundant data entry and significantly reduced teacher workload.
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Projects
2026Personal — developer tooling
TypeScriptReactAngularNode.jsMonorepo
A framework-agnostic feature-flags library published as 5 packages under @useoptimus on npm, with adapters for React, Angular, and Node/SSR. Unified three flag primitives (boolean, variant, value) with composable traits instead of a separate evaluation engine per flag kind, and built deterministic bucketing (FNV-1a + avalanche finalizer) with mandatory per-flag salting so rollouts across flags never correlate. Shipped with a full Astro/Starlight documentation site and an SSR contract where the server evaluates once and the client hydrates without re-evaluating.
2026Personal — QoL App
Next.jsReactMongoDBbetter-authCapacitorTailwindshadcn/ui
Pantry & shared grocery app — track household inventory, shared pantry with invites, grocery lists, consume/convert/clear-out flows, cross-platform via Capacitor (web + iOS + Android).
2026Personal — systems tooling
RustTOMLclap
A CLI tool built around an emit-and-eval pattern for shell-stateful commands — the shell emits a command string, the CLI evaluates and reacts to it, rather than trying to mutate shell state directly. Flat-file TOML backend; subcommands via clap.
2023 — 2024S3A-Net: Spatial-Spectral Self-Attention Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Final-year major project
PythonPyTorchFew-Shot LearningRemote Sensing
Implemented and co-researched S3A-Net, a self-attention network for few-shot hyperspectral image classification, under Dr. Manimala Mahato and Prof. Biplab Banerjee. Built the architecture to capture joint spatial and spectral features and ran classification experiments showing strong accuracy with limited labeled data.
2022 — 2023Plan It
Third-year minor project
NLP
Task-management app with NLP for natural-language task input and smart suggestions. Tuned parsing accuracy through framework selection, iterative training, and testing. Supports personal and team-level organization with collaboration.
2021 — 2022Project Gallery
Second-year minor project
Platform for SAKEC students to showcase and discover projects — tackled third-party image hosting and session security. Fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing across the college.
2020 — 2023Personal — creative coding
JavaScriptP5.jsCreative Coding
A collection of visual experiments and game remakes: ray tracing (2D & 3D), fractal-tree animations, Flappy Bird, Game of Life, Minesweeper, Snake. Also A*, 8 Queens, K-means, Epsilon-NFA simulation. Each one a hands-on excuse to understand something deeply.
