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Purdue University

Research Assistant

Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

October 2025 – May 2026

  • Designed prompt-based experiments to evaluate consistency, multimodal alignment, semantic fidelity, and reconstruction quality across Vision-Language Models.
  • Built an image-text-image evaluation workflow and analyzed model behavior across Gemini, GPT-4V, and LLaVA.
  • Identified reproducibility gaps, prompt-sensitivity issues, and model-specific failure patterns.

Purdue University

Teaching Assistant

Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

August 2025 – May 2026

  • Supported the undergraduate Capstone Project course and guided students through semester-long software and research projects.
  • Assisted with project evaluations, prepared course materials, and provided feedback on implementation, documentation, and presentations.
  • Facilitated project discussions, answered student questions, and helped teams stay on schedule.

Purdue University

Student Ambassador

Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

August 2025 – May 2026

  • Represented the Purdue student community during university outreach, engagement, and student-facing events.
  • Helped prospective and current students understand academic programs, university resources, and campus opportunities.
  • Communicated student perspectives and contributed to a welcoming environment for students from diverse backgrounds.

Purdue Intramurals

Sports Official

Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

August 2025 – May 2026

  • Officiated intramural sporting events while applying rules consistently and making decisions in fast-paced situations.
  • Communicated effectively with players and teams while promoting fairness, safety, and sportsmanship.
  • Strengthened leadership, conflict-resolution, and decision-making skills.

Standard Chartered Bank

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

September 2022 – December 2024

  • Designed scalable backend services for payment-processing systems using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Implemented event-driven workflows using Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Lambda, and DynamoDB.
  • Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for automated AWS EC2 deployments and improved release reliability.
  • Automated release validation and reporting, reducing downtime by 25% and release issues by 15%.
  • Helped save approximately $37K in AWS costs by identifying unused resources and implementing S3 expiration policies.

Persistent Systems

Software Engineer Intern

Pune, Maharashtra, India

January 2022 – July 2022

  • Diagnosed and resolved application issues using debugging and root-cause analysis.
  • Optimized SQL datasets using indexing and data-cleaning techniques, reducing redundancy by 17%.
  • Enhanced 12 React components using Redux, Material-UI, and Formik.

Knowledge Solutions

Software Engineer Intern

Remote

March 2021 – May 2021

  • Developed responsive web-application features using React.js and Next.js.
  • Integrated Next.js dynamic routing to support smooth navigation between application pages.
  • Improved page-loading performance using code splitting and lazy loading.
  • Worked in a collaborative, fast-paced product-development environment.
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