Vardaan Kapoor

CEO

Fremont, California, United States2 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Leadership experience as President of AI and UX Clubs.
  • Hands-on experience in machine learning and software engineering.
  • Strong foundation in programming and algorithmic thinking.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineering and Machine Learning professional with strong academic and practical experience.

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Algorithm DesignAlgorithmsAnacondaAnalytical ReasoningAuditingBaristaBashBayesian inferenceBlueJBootstrapC (Programming Language)CalculusCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CashieringCollaborative Problem Solving

About

I’m Vardaan Kapoor, a graduating Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics student at UW–Madison (Dec 2025), with a passion for software engineering, machine learning, and AI-driven solutions. As President of both the AI Club and UX Club at UW–Madison, I’ve gained valuable leadership experience, organizing workshops, events, and collaborating with industry experts to drive real-world applications of AI and design thinking. This has enhanced my skills in teamwork, communication, and problem-solving—skills I’m excited to bring to the professional world. I’ve also gained hands-on industry experience as a Machine Learning Engineer and Software Engineer Intern, where I’ve worked on end-to-end development, built scalable systems, and deployed machine learning models that positively impacted users and businesses. With a solid foundation in programming, algorithmic thinking, and operational efficiency, I’m eager to take on a full-time role where I can continue building impactful products and contributing to innovative projects. I’m currently seeking full-time opportunities in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, or AI Research. Let’s connect and discuss how I can contribute to your team’s success!

Experience

2 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Uw-madison college of engineering

PrEPS Facilitator

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Directed and led PrEPS (Practicing Engineering Problem Solving) as Head Facilitator under ULC Director Leah Rineck for MATH 234: Multivariable Calculus, providing ten hours weekly of instruction and academic leadership. Designed and executed a structured 90-minute session model integrating theory exposition with collaborative problem solving, delivering over 26 sessions sequenced from vector operations through Green’s, Stokes’, and Divergence theorems.
  • Authored and validated 50+ bespoke worksheets and over 120 instructional materials, creating annotated, pedagogically transparent answer keys emphasizing reasoning, alternate approaches, and common misconceptions. Established a peer-review system to unify solution standards and integrated symbolic derivations, coordinate transformations, and graphical illustrations for multivariable concepts.
  • Administered practice midterms and final simulations, grading via structured rubrics and providing diagnostic feedback to target conceptual and procedural gaps. Delivered targeted remediation lectures addressing recurring issues such as multivariable limits, chain-rule misapplications, and coordinate-system errors.
  • Coordinated facilitator operations through weekly governance meetings, assigning topic responsibilities, refining lesson plans, and presenting engagement analytics and attendance metrics in executive briefings to the ULC director.
  • Implemented active-learning group pedagogies, mentoring 10+ students per cohort, organizing triadic teams, and providing real-time conceptual intervention to sustain equitable participation.
  • Delivered Tutoring-by-Request (TBR) remediation for high-need students, including extended support for a Math 114 protégé and a LEED Scholar, combining tailored academic scaffolding with mentorship and study-strategy development.

University of wisconsin-madison people program

COLLEGE READINESS MENTOR

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Served as a College Readiness Mentor (CRM) under the Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) within UW–Madison’s Division for Teaching and Learning, mentoring over 105 high school students across grades 9–12 at Vel Phillips Memorial High School for six hours weekly. Delivered academic and personal mentorship designed to cultivate college readiness, intellectual discipline, and social-emotional resilience among underrepresented learners.
  • Conducted subject-intensive tutoring in Computer Science, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, aligned with College Board AP curricula including AP Calculus AB/BC, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics 1, and AP Computer Science A. Designed adaptive lesson frameworks emphasizing conceptual depth and procedural precision in programming, kinetics, mechanics, and calculus integration.
  • Led three-hour group sessions and individualized tutorials to resolve complex problem sets and reinforce laboratory principles. Collaborated with Precollege Advisors and Academic Leads to maintain operational excellence and curricular continuity.
  • Exercised leadership through coordination of peer-tutoring systems, tracking attendance, sequencing multi-subject lessons, and sustaining balanced student-to-mentor ratios.
  • Facilitated Academic Centers for Enrichment (ACE) workshops on self-management, study discipline, metacognition, and time planning. Guided students through college essay writing and academic identity formation, emphasizing authenticity and intellectual ambition.
  • Promoted inclusivity, belonging, and confidence within historically underrepresented groups in STEM.
  • Upheld ethical and professional standards, completing mandated child safety and confidentiality trainings. Delivered biweekly progress reports and contributed actionable insights during CRM leadership meetings.

University of wisconsin-madison

UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EXAM PROCTOR

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Oversaw comprehensive proctorial operations for intermediate and advanced undergraduate mathematics examinations, including MATH 113, 221, 222, 320, and 340 (Precalculus, Calculus I–II, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra). Directed end-to-end examination logistics encompassing material custody, alternate-column seating distribution, and secured handling of makeup and one-on-one assessments in accordance with departmental standards.
  • Maintained continuous mobile supervision throughout sessions to deter academic impropriety, clarify procedural uncertainties, and uphold decorum. Administered precise timing protocols by distributing exams five minutes before commencement, recording adjusted start and end times, and updating visible countdowns for student reference.
  • Implemented stringent academic integrity measures, including alternate seating enforcement, calculator documentation, bathroom-break logging, and discreet intervention for suspected misconduct supported by time-stamped documentation and, when applicable, video corroboration.
  • Responded effectively to contingencies by arriving early, updating time intervals manually when clocks failed, summoning emergency services for medical events, and coordinating with campus security during logistical conflicts. Ensured secure post-exam transfer and scanning of completed scripts for instructor access and grading.
  • Compiled exhaustive post-exam records, including attendance logs, scanned ID verifications, annotated incident reports, and TA-sorted submission bundles. Through methodical organization, situational responsiveness, and humane professionalism, consistently upheld the highest standards of assessment integrity, transparency, and fairness across the department’s most demanding undergraduate examinations.

Fluno center for executive education

Dishwasher

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Operated and calibrated industrial CMA conveyor and flight-type dishwashers, methodically loading and sequencing racks, fine-tuning chemical-dosing parameters, surveilling cycle integrity, diagnosing mechanical impediments, and performing preventive maintenance to safeguard continuous throughput and ensure regulatory conformity.
  • Orchestrated dishroom logistics for high-profile, multi-course occasions, including commencement ceremonies, weddings, football-game hospitality, Badger Bash, private banquets, and protracted seven-course plated services.
  • Trained, mentored, and supervised student colleagues in safe equipment operation, chemical-handling protocol, expedited staging methodologies, and verification checklists.
  • Administered comprehensive back-of-house stewardship by unloading, cataloguing, and organizing plates, pans, and serviceware; managed storage logistics and chronological stock rotation, sanitized refrigeration units and ovens, conducted rigorous floor and equipment cleansing, processed waste streams, and handled consignments up to fifty pounds in strict accordance with safety mandates.
  • Documented maintenance incidents and operational anomalies, liaised with unit management to schedule remedial repairs and procure replacement parts, compiled daily shift dossiers and guest-feedback synopses, and honored scheduling obligations within a biweekly rotating weekend framework, thereby upholding reliability, accountability, and institutional standards.
Customer ServiceFood Service SanitationWashDishwashingWashes

Paragon genomics

Machine Learning Engineer

May 2025Aug 2025 · 3 mos · Fremont, California, United States · Remote

Soundsafe.ai

Machine Learning Platform Engineer

May 2025Aug 2025 · 3 mos · Galena, Illinois, United States · Remote

Ux club - uw madison

President

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

yin li lab

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Feb 2025May 2025 · 3 mos

  • Large Language Models

Ai club at uw-madison

2 roles

President

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Secretary

Oct 2024Feb 2025 · 4 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Wisconsin union

3 roles

Budget Review Advisory Board Member

Promoted

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

Caterer (Food Service Support Staff)

Sep 2024Feb 2025 · 5 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Executed a comprehensive range of hospitality, culinary, and logistical responsibilities encompassing cashiering, food preparation, alcohol service, and guest relations within the Union’s formal catering division, provisioning service to greater than 600 customers every day. Delivered refined, high-touch service for institutional events including commencement ceremonies, weddings, faculty banquets, fellowship endowments, student club functions, and prize receptions, consistently upholding the Wisconsin Union’s standards of professionalism, punctuality, and excellence.
  • Managed complex culinary preparation workflows involving multi-course plated dinners, executing the coordinated service of seven sequential courses over durations exceeding three hours. Collaborated with senior chefs to ensure flavor consistency, plating symmetry, and dietary accommodations, exercising both culinary precision and operational dexterity. Demonstrated fluency in mise en place organization, equipment sterilization, and adherence to health codes, thus ensuring both gastronomic quality and hygienic assurance.
  • Oversaw the systematic organization of dishwashing stations, detergents, and antiseptic cleaning supplies into designated storage spaces. Conducted sanitization and custodial duties encompassing refrigeration units, cold storage facilities, ovens, and kitchen surfaces.
  • Demonstrated leadership and collaborative oversight by managing shift rosters and delineating worker assignments for event-specific operations.
  • Upheld immaculate cleanliness and workplace order through systematic segregation of cleaning apparatus—mops, brooms, and dishwashing instruments—within dedicated storage zones to prevent cross-contamination. Cleaned and sterilized refrigeration chambers, ovens, and serving stations, applying antiseptic procedures with methodical precision. Engaged in continuous professional learning to master advanced sanitation practices, workplace ergonomics, and safety compliance.

Restaurant Team Member, Culinary Assistant

Sep 2024Dec 2024 · 3 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Location: Strada Italian Restaurant
  • Team: Dining and Hospitality
  • Processed and authenticated monetary transactions for greater than 1500 customers per day, administered POS (Point-of-Sale) terminals with exacting precision, executed exhaustive end-of-shift reconciliations, and maintained compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data-security and cash-handling protocols.
  • Prepared and assembled culinary productions including six distinct pastas and six signature pizzas, executed precise protein preparation (e.g., bacon and tuna butchery), sautéed and composited vegetables to specification, and enforced portion and presentation standards under accelerated, high-volume service conditions.
  • Validated patron identity using electronic ID scanning technology, adjudicated alcohol-service eligibility, dispensed alcoholic beverages in strict accordance with harm-minimization procedures, and reported suspected identity fraud or underage consumption to supervisory authorities to ensure regulatory compliance and public safety.
  • Orchestrated inventory stewardship and line logistics by employing FIFO (First-In, First-Out) rotation, cataloguing ~50 utensil and cutlery types, retrieving raw materials from storeroom reserves, and conducting cyclical inventory audits to curtail shrinkage and preserve supply continuity.
  • Instituted operational efficiencies and personnel allocation heuristics—mentored colleagues in mise en place and beverage composition, delegated tasks during peak events (football games, Badger Bash, private functions), and promulgated process refinements that reduced customer wait times by 25%, frequently assuming de facto supervisory responsibilities during understaffed shifts.

Google

Software Engineer Program Fellow

Oct 2024Jan 2025 · 3 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Boulevard

Software Engineering Fellow

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

Code2040

Software Engineering Fellow

Sep 2024Aug 2025 · 11 mos · Remote

Ai4all

AI Software Engineering Fellow

Aug 2024Mar 2025 · 7 mos · Remote

Headstarter ai

Software Engineering Fellow

Jul 2024Sep 2024 · 2 mos · Remote

Codepath

Fellow

May 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

Buildspace

software engineering fellow

May 2024Aug 2024 · 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Paragon genomics

Software Engineer Intern

Dec 2023Aug 2024 · 8 mos · Fremont, California, United States · On-site

  • Worked on improving the Java pipeline of automated primer design cluster
  • Increased the minimum AWS thread per job from 2 to 8 for genomes indexed with the aligner Bowtie2 and reducing memory leaks to prevent application’s log file truncation
  • Revamped the PGIUMI docker that involves troubleshooting the UMI data analysis pipeline errors using Theia IDE and Java Springboot.

Meta

Above And Beyond Computer Science Fellow

Dec 2023Feb 2024 · 2 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · Remote

  • Completed Meta’s highly selective Above and Beyond Computer Science (ABCS) Program, devoting six hours weekly to an intensive blend of instructor-led workshops, synchronous HackerRank challenges, and independent practice designed to emulate real-world technical interview rigor. Engaged collaboratively with Meta engineers and peers to translate theoretical algorithmic constructs into efficient, production-ready implementations.
  • Mastered a comprehensive curriculum encompassing arrays, linked lists, recursion, stacks, queues, hash tables, trees, heaps, and graph algorithms while cultivating asymptotic reasoning to balance time–space trade-offs. Applied canonical techniques such as sliding windows, two-pointer strategies, DFS, BFS, and greedy heuristics to construct optimized, verifiable solutions.
  • Completed weekly timed problem-solving sessions via HackerRank and CoderPad to demonstrate real-time coding fluency, structured reasoning, and edge-case resilience. Enhanced debugging precision and modular design through iterative refinement, pair programming, and analytical code review.
  • Interacted with Meta professionals, including recruiters and early-career engineers, in workshops and panels on software design, communication, and interview readiness. Adopted idiomatic Python conventions, modular development workflows, and profiling practices to heighten computational efficiency and code clarity.
  • Advanced communicative precision by articulating algorithmic rationale, complexity trade-offs, and correctness arguments under time constraints. Strengthened professional acumen through peer collaboration, structured mentorship, and applied learning.
  • Program completion yielded demonstrable proficiency in algorithmic reasoning, coding performance under pressure, and system-level problem-solving—skills directly translatable to graduate research, data science, and software engineering.
  • cohort: winter 2023-2024

Uw-madison computer sciences

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2023Aug 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · Hybrid

  • Mentored >600 students every semester in upper-level systems designing course spanning 8 system architecture designing projects and homework
  • Graded weekly assignments, held daily office hours and study groups, prepared question banks on cache simulation, virtual memory, and concurrency concepts on
  • various networks and systems projects
  • Answer questions on Piazza and rate/retweet solved questions. Create and check answer sheets while answering logistics questions related to exam content and scheduling.
  • Taught diagrammatic approach to solving machine organization and memeory allocation, dynamic heap allocation, and virtualization concepts.
  • Undertook "Bring Your Own Laptop" sessions every week for teaching students the core coding concepts of low level programming language C and help in homework assignments.
  • Performed demos of connecting to virtual machines, using git and version control platforms, while using command line and Linux/Unix based text editors and systems.
  • Helped students in projects using pointer arithmetic in C, compilation and build processes in C, cache and memory allocation, assembly language and "bomb" bit manipulation, and standard system and library calls assignment to give full in depth knowledge of systems and computer architecture coursework.
  • Class taught: CS 354(Machine Organization and System Design)

Vp infotech

Software Engineer

Jun 2023Aug 2023 · 2 mos · Texas, United States · Remote

  • Performed automation testing of Lululemon and Hyphen web applications using cypress, selenium, and cucumber using Theia and VSCode IDEs and Javascript.
  • Developed a mobile testing framework using Appium, Postman, NodeJS and utilized TestRail for test case management
  • Executed Data Warehouse queries using Lenses SQL Studio while creating test orders using Orders and Retail Management systems
  • Learnt Scrum methodologies in an Agile Development environment creating JIRA tickets for bugs identified and maintaining Confluence pages
  • Identified fraud holes and created html reports of testing batches

Uw-madison computer sciences

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at "CS SHELF"

Jan 2023May 2023 · 4 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Teaching department: CS SHELF
  • Mentored >1000 students on Java, Python programming, solving Multivariable calculus questions, and developing Dev-Op projects using Version Control and scrum.
  • Solved System Design problems, including SQL queries and bit manipulation homework problems and circuit diagrams using transistors
  • Designed questions and separate answer keys for relevant topics for students' studies. Solved course and logistics related doubts for core computer science classes.
  • Classes covered: CS 200, CS 300, CS 400, CS 240, CS 252, STAT 240
  • Organized and maintained student focus with relative scheduling.
  • Spent~15 hours a week

Uw-madison housing

Cashier, Stocker and Barista

Sep 2022Jan 2023 · 4 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · On-site

  • Location: Gordon Dining and Event Center
  • Processed payments after verifying identity for greater than 2000 customers daily at multiple cash counters (Gordon Dining Hall, Flamingo Run, and South-East Café), personally operating POS (Point-of-Sale) systems, performing end-of-shift reconciliations, and ensuring full compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards acquired through formal PCI training.
  • Exercised operational leadership by designing and executing a demand-responsive staffing model that limited student queue wait-time to a maximum of five minutes.
  • Administered comprehensive order-fulfillment workflows including integration with the Starship robot delivery ordering service, validating digital payment records, coordinating robotic pickup windows, and reconciling autonomous-delivery logs with POS transaction data to preserve transactional integrity.
  • Authored and implemented concise SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), conducted structured training and mentorship for new employees in cashiering and cash reconciliation, and performed spot audits and verification checklists that reduced reconciliation discrepancies and reinforced procedural adherence.
  • Managed merchandising and inventory control via FIFO (First-In, First-Out) rotation, sustained rigorous sanitation and health-safety practices, executed systematic inventory audits to minimize shrinkage, and reliably handled physical tasks including lifting up to fifty pounds.
  • Demonstrated disciplined time management and quantitative rigor while committing a minimum of twelve hours weekly within a biweekly rotating weekend schedule; applied precise arithmetic reconciliation, elementary statistical reasoning for demand estimation, and autonomous decision-making as de facto shift manager to ensure uninterrupted, high-quality operational performance.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

May 2022May 2026

Boston public school

Central Board of Secondary Education — Classes 11-12 Computer Science(PCM)

Apr 2020Apr 2022

St. Peter's College

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education — Classes 1-10 Computer Science(General)

Apr 2010Mar 2020

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