- Led a 120-student discussion section for ECE 2514 (Computational Engineering), reinforcing core concepts through C++-focused problem solving and hands-on coding walkthroughs.
- Held weekly office hours to debug student code, explain numerical/algorithmic foundations, and help students translate math into efficient C++ implementations.
- Supported course delivery by grading assignments and exams, creating review materials, and providing timely feedback to improve programming style, correctness, and performance.
Work
- Jan 2026 - May 2026Virginia TechGraduate Teaching Assistant (Computational Engineering)
- Aug 2025 - Dec 2025Virginia TechGraduate Teaching Assistant(Machine Learning)
- Delivered instruction on supervised/unsupervised learning, ensemble methods, reinforcement learning, and structured models to a class of 60+ students, improving exam performance by 15% on average.
- Guided 40+ students on portfolio projects (KNN, clustering/dimensionality reduction, reinforcement learning).
- Mentored students on semester-long capstone projects applying ML to real-world datasets (images, text, robotics).
- Dec 2024 - CurrentVirginia TechResearch Assistant
- Built a real-time group coding platform for students using WebSockets, Yjs, and containerized microservices, enabling synchronous editing and improving collaboration efficiency by 40%.
- Integrated locally hosted Gemma3- 27B LLM agents to facilitate task assignment, conflict resolution, and workflow guidance,streamlining group coordination in coding projects.
- Applied LLM-based structure prediction to datasets, cutting analysis time by 25% while improving accuracy of results by 15%.
- Deployed collaboration agents on a private cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure, low-latency performance for multi-user environments.
- Dec 2023 - Jul 2024Cloud9SpaceFull Stack Software Engineer
- Designed and delivered municipal-scale software adopted by 50k+ active users at Pune Municipal Corporation
- Built and shipped 5 new product features for Luki by KrediYA, a financial platform with 15k+ active users, improving user experience and engagement.
- Developed and launched 5 mobile apps using React Native, including an advanced HR management app resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement metrics.
- Implemented AWS hosting on EC2, RDS, and PostgreSQL servers for web applications, reducing server downtime by 40% and increasing site speed by 25%.
- Jul 2022 - Oct 2022Softinfo Systems Pvt. Ltd.Mobile Developer Intern
- Built JWT authentication and optimized REST API calls, resulting in a 30% reduction in load times for the application.
- Collaborated with the UX team to redesign the user interface for the mobile app, improving responsiveness by 40% and increasing user satisfaction by 20%.
- Engineered new features using the Flutter framework, resulting in a 15% increase in daily active users within the first month of release.