May 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Champaign, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

• Leading technical strategy, project scoping, and tool selection for data-driven consulting projects. Mentoring junior consultants while driving innovation across BI, analytics, and GenAI initiatives.

Jan 2025 – May 2025 · 4 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

• Developed an AI-powered question-answering system to extract policy insights from 800+ pages of legal PDFs using Python, PDFPlumber, and OpenAI APIs.
• Designed and documented a scalable 3-layer architecture (ETL, Vector DB, LLM Backend), enabling modular deployment and faster dev ramp-up for future teams.
• Evaluated and recommended a hybrid RAG pipeline after testing FAISS, Elasticsearch, and SentenceTransformers, improving document retrieval accuracy by 34%.
• Created technical diagrams in Lucidchart and collaborated with 5 cross-functional team members to align backend, NLP, and UI components.

May 2025 – Sep 2025 · 4 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States · On-site

• Programmed and executed 15+ fundraising campaigns in TED by configuring efforts, segments, seeds, exclusions, and export files for each campaign cycle.
• Built and maintained campaign tracking workbooks in SmartSheet to coordinate timelines, segment approvals, and export schedules across the advancement team.
• Segmented 100K+ donor records in Excel using giving history, affinity scores, and lapsed donor flags to improve targeting precision for annual fund appeals.
• Explored Microsoft Fabric as a potential replacement for legacy data pulls, documenting feasibility findings and schema mapping for the analytics team.
• Developed a donor reactivation model in R using logistic regression on 3 years of giving data to flag high probability lapsed donors for targeted outreach.
• Ran SQL queries through SQL Bot to pull donor engagement data, validate segment counts, and reconcile export totals before each campaign launch.

May 2025 – Jun 2025 · 1 mo · Urbana, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

• Improved accessibility across 50+ PDF documents by remediating tags, reading order, and structure using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
• Enhanced screen reader compatibility through manual tagging of headings, tables, lists, and images, validated via NVDA and JAWS.
• Ensured logical reading and tab navigation across all files by editing the Tags and Order panes and applying consistent structural patterns.
• Maintained a detailed QA checklist that captured document language, metadata, tagging accuracy, and screen reader output across files.

Aug 2023 – Jul 2024 · 11 mos · Remote

• Accelerated client onboarding by 25% by redesigning 30+ product documentation templates using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for cross-functional usability.
• Streamlined product-client alignment across 14+ major accounts by building a centralized mapping model in Excel to support internal sales and operations strategy.
• Improved post-delivery traceability across 5 product lines by structuring 100+ control panel and PCB wiring records into SQL-queryable formats for easy retrieval.
• Saved 6+ hours weekly for QA and production teams by digitizing manual test rig results and wiring validations using Excel-based logic frameworks and auto-fill tables.
• Reduced troubleshooting time by 40% by implementing a standardized folder taxonomy and dashboard navigation guide in PowerPoint for internal technical files.
• Benchmarked 8 key industrial controllers (AMF, Marine, Relay Units) through visual side-by-side Tableau-based comparison charts to support R&D prioritization.
• Authored 5+ SOPs for project delivery and documentation using BI presentation templates modeled on Power BI dashboards for internal training use.
• Identified and visualized 3 critical bottlenecks in delivery timelines using Excel-based Gantt-style tracking and stakeholder interviews.

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 · 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• Enhanced virtualization platform reliability by executing 100+ test cases for Colama and in-house hypervisor modules across Linux environments.
• Reduced manual QA overhead by 60% by developing and maintaining Selenium-based automation scripts in Python for end-to-end regression tests.
• Strengthened release quality for cloud workloads by validating compatibility and performance across multiple Linux distros on virtual machines.
• Identified and documented 30+ bugs by designing negative test cases and edge condition validations for hypervisor behavior under load.
• Collaborated with 4+ senior developers and QA engineers to streamline cross-team feedback cycles and prioritize critical test coverage areas.

Dec 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 mo · Remote

• Generated actionable crop-detection insights on 5 K+ field images by developing YOLO‑based object detection models for automated identification of crop types.
• Achieved ~90 % detection accuracy and 85 % classification accuracy on test datasets by training and fine-tuning YOLOv5 networks using labeled training data.
• Reduced manual scouting time by 70 % by building an end‑to‑end pipeline that processed drone and satellite‑sourced imagery into actionable bounding box outputs.
• Delivered the project with full documentation, model weight files (>200 MB), and inference scripts using Python and PyTorch.
• Collaborated with a team of 3 peers to design training routines, run experiments, and validate outputs through repeated evaluation with confusion matrices and precision-recall curves.

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos

• Led 18 chapter events, including 2 coding contests, 1 offline seminar, 5 speaker sessions, and 10+ webinars and coding marathons, boosting peer engagement across all academic years.
• Increased community visibility by 3× during the cohort through consistently hosted programming challenges, content collaborations, and high-frequency virtual meetups.
• Launched 3 new flagship initiatives: Community Member of the Month, Monthly Upsolving Sessions, and Problem-Solving Weeks, to reward participation and deepen skill development.
• Helped grow the active competitive coding base from ~30 to 100+ students by introducing regular practice touchpoints and post-contest discussions.
• Collaborated with 4+ co-leads and a volunteer team of 12 to manage event logistics, marketing workflows, and post-event analytics.

Nov 2020 – Jul 2021 · 8 mos

• Reached 150+ students through technical webinars on programming fundamentals and competitive coding, helping peers kickstart their coding journey.
• Contributed to 20+ social media campaigns by creating content for event promotions, coding tips, and peer spotlights on platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
• Supported 80+ first-year students in navigating CodeChef’s contest platforms by hosting Q&A sessions and peer-led walkthroughs.
• Shaped chapter strategy as the youngest founding member by assisting with event planning, student outreach, and member onboarding.
• Built personal exposure to problem-solving techniques by attending internal contests and collaborating with senior coders in peer learning circles.

Nov 2020 – Jan 2021 · 2 mos · Remote

• Increased internship awareness across 500+ students by organizing promotions and peer outreach during ISP 20 at Sinhgad College of Engineering.
• Drove a 3x rise in platform signups through social media campaigns, WhatsApp community engagement, and referral code distribution.
• Helped students access free training resources by promoting Internshala’s e-learning offerings in programming, resume building, and communication skills.
• Represented Internshala as the youngest active ISP in my batch, taking initiative on weekly task rollouts and content distribution.
• Completed all assigned weekly goals and contributed feedback to improve the student partner onboarding and engagement experience.