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    "summary": "AI/ML Engineer and final-year CSE student at GITAM University Hyderabad. Building production AI systems at BHEL, leading backend & ML at GARI rocketry team, and co-founding Easify. Specialized in FastAPI, PyTorch, real-time systems, and explainable AI.",
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      "region": "Telangana"
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      "name": "BHEL — Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited",
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      "summary": "Building production AI systems at one of India's largest public sector enterprises. Fully on-premise LLM deployment with zero external API dependency.",
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        "Built production-grade AI vendor compliance portal using FastAPI, Ollama, and PyMuPDF — runs fully on-premise",
        "Designed LLM-powered document extraction pipeline for tender analysis with no external API dependency",
        "Proposed turbine lifecycle optimisation system using LSTM autoencoders and physics-informed digital twin modelling for GM-level stakeholder review"
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      "summary": "Co-founded Easify, a smart pooling service platform connecting commuters for shared rides in Hyderabad.",
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        "Architecting and building the full-stack pooling platform with real-time ride matching",
        "Designed backend API, database schema, and payment integration with Razorpay",
        "Leading product strategy, user onboarding, and go-to-market for Hyderabad launch"
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        "Built CAN-7USAT rocket telemetry backend achieving sub-5ms end-to-end latency (target was 15ms)",
        "Engineered real-time WebSocket streaming pipeline for live ground station dashboards",
        "Developed GARI team website with React, canvas starfield, and SVG animations"
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      "name": "Elevate Labs",
      "position": "AI/ML Intern",
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      "startDate": "2026-04",
      "endDate": "2026-05",
      "summary": "Applied ML internship focused on preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and deployment-oriented backend integrations.",
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        "Applied ML: preprocessing, model training, evaluation and deployment-oriented backend integrations"
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      "endDate": "2027",
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      "date": "2026-03",
      "awarder": "GITAM University × Kodryx AI",
      "summary": "Won for MedVision AI — Explainable diabetic ulcer detection system with Grad-CAM and SHAP"
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      "title": "Winner - HackXplore",
      "date": "2026-04",
      "awarder": "IEEE-SSIT VJIT",
      "summary": "Won for FactCheck AI — Browser-based fake news analyzer with 90% accuracy"
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        "PostgreSQL",
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        "Prometheus",
        "Grafana",
        "Git"
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        "ROS2",
        "Kalman Filtering",
        "Sensor Fusion",
        "Real-time Telemetry",
        "RBAC",
        "JWT Auth"
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      "name": "Rocketry & Aerospace",
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        "Telemetry Systems",
        "Flight Control",
        "Sensor Fusion"
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      "name": "CAN-7USAT Ground Control Station",
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        "0% packet loss with 23/23 tests passing",
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        "PostgreSQL"
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        "ML Engineer"
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      "name": "AUVBrain — Autonomous Underwater Vehicle",
      "description": "Full autonomous control stack for an underwater vehicle. Deterministic observe→decide→act agent loop with 4-DOF thruster control, offline LLM decision engine.",
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        "Agent loop p95 latency: 0.84ms",
        "Offline LLM with rules-based fallback",
        "ROS2 integration for sensor fusion"
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        "FastAPI",
        "Docker",
        "llama.cpp"
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      "name": "MedVision AI — Diabetic Ulcer Detection",
      "description": "Explainable AI system for diabetic ulcer risk detection. Grad-CAM heatmaps, SHAP values, MLflow tracking. Won AI Day Hackathon.",
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        "Won GITAM × Kodryx AI Hackathon (March 2026)",
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        "MLflow + DVC for experiment tracking"
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