Aug 2024 – Dec 2024 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• My first full time job after getting a Pre-Placement offer! As a part of the CTO team here, I got my first hand experience into systems, compilers and computer architecture in general.
• We worked on building a Proof of Concept (PoC) by optimizing two things using RISC-V ISA and SIMD vector intrinsics:
• 1. Various AI kernels including but not limited to Exponential, SoftMax and Sigmoid.
• 2. Descrambling process of DEMAP module for 6G network modem communication.

Dec 2023 – Apr 2024 · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Part of the founding engineering team.
• Initial plan was developing a copilot for designs. But then I learnt how early age startups need to constantly re-iterate on their idea based on their consumer's feedback. End product was changed at least a couple of times.
• On tech side, I migrated a vector embedding storage from Pinecone to Supabase which improved the storage costs. Worked heavily with VueJS, FabricJS, Typescript, NodeJS and Docker.

Oct 2023 – Oct 2023 · 0 mo

• Conducted strategy sessions around GATE Computer Science.
• Profile - https://unacademy.com/@PraddyumnShukla-1630

Jun 2023 – Jul 2023 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Worked with the Voice Intelligence team for improving Bixby - Samsung's voice assistant.
• Delivered operational POCs (Proof of Concept) for optimal recommendation in multiple use cases including QnA on Samsung products. Leveraged Smart things API for this and developed capsules under Bixby Home Studio framework.
• Got exposed to LLMs and Prompt engineering for the first time.

Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Longest serving SPC (Student Placement Coordinator) for the institute.
• Sourced companies, managed student applications, acted as the single point of contact for recruiters, and handled the entire recruitment process including the operations for interviews and assessments.
• Closed the placements at ~96% on the day I walked out of campus for the MTech 2024 batch which faced the peak of recession in the last one decade. All of this, while receiving zero support from the institute (although, a lot has improved in the placement committee since then)
• More than the actual work, this role taught me a lot more about life and people.

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Got hired for the role of a Consulting Engineer. Cleared Cisco's Devnet Associate Certification.
• Learnt about Devops, Network Automation and it's Infrastructure.
• Worked on developing a frontend microservice for an internal project in ReactJS, including User Authentication via an ExpressJS and MongoDB backend. Tested and developed APIs in Postman.
• Got an FTE offer but chose to go for Masters.

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021 · 6 mos

May 2021 – Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Remote

• Taught the complete subject of Theory of Computation for GATE 2024 via 50+ live sessions on Youtube. Improved web articles, provided PYQ solutions and reviewed the content of their premium courses.
• This opportunity made me aware of my passion for teaching and simplifying things.

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

• I started a channel out of curiosity, but with time I knew that storytelling is actually my niche. So here I am, making a small effort to help people realize their dreams through my journeys :)
• With 20 videos (including paid collabs) as of March 2025, the stats stand at 5k subscribers and ~5 lakh channel views. For collabs, please reach out at spraddyumn@gmail.com

Feb 2021 – Mar 2021 · 1 mo

• Didn't learn much. Work was entirely on Java, J2EE and Servlets for mobile healthcare.

Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 · 9 mos

Aug 2020 – Sep 2020 · 1 mo

• Contributed to Open Source for the first time by making some front end changes in a project called: "GitHub Profile Analyzer"

Jul 2020 – Jul 2020 · 0 mo · Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India · Remote

• Worked on migrating a PHP based website (kind of e-commerce but not entirely) to a WordPress one for a Japanese client.

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos

• CEO was kind enough to take me back in after some days of break. This time to work on technical stuff.
• Handled their blog page in WordPress, improved the SEO ranking, integrated a chatbot and made changes in the main website's design. Also learnt what version control of code is via Bitbucket.
• The learning curve was exponential here. Probably the best environment I worked in till now.

Apr 2020 – May 2020 · 1 mo

• My first corporate internship. And the closest one to my heart. I didn't know how to code back then but I knew how to communicate well and hence I joined as a Sales and Marketing Intern.
• Did a bunch of things including but not limited to creating their product's how-to videos, doing the competitor analysis, carrying marketing campaigns and bringing in customer leads.
• This internship was special since it at least gave me that clarity that this is not the domain that I would want to work in moving forward.

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo · Bhubaneshwar, Orissa

• Led the team "ZeroBuggers" in the Smart India Hackathon edition 2020.
• We worked on creating an alternative for Visually Impaired people to authenticate themselves on web captchas through OCR and it's equivalent vibration sensing in the universal morse code pattern.
• The idea was nominated to represent CV Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar at the national levels of the hackathon in the software edition.