Amanvir Parhar
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University of Maryland, College Park Expected: May 2026 B.S. in Computer Science President’s Scholarship Recipient, Startup Shell Fellow GPA: 3.93 Relevant Coursework: Algorithms, Organization of Programming Languages, Computer Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Compilers, Data Science, Object-Oriented Programming, Discrete Mathematics, Applied Probability and Statistics Experience
Software Engineering Intern LLMs, Python, JavaScript Feb. 2024 – July 2024 Learn Prompting San Francisco Bay Area
• Rewrote the company’s entire payment infrastructure to use Stripe instead of Thinkific Payments, significantly reducing failed payments
• Developed system to programmatically generate and add 6,000 dynamic pages to the website, each containing an LLM prompt, to drive search traffic through programmatic SEO
• Created a technical pitch deck detailing HackAPrompt 2.0, the largest LLM red-teaming competition Software Developer Intern Python, Selenium, Flask, React, JavaScript Nov. 2021 – May 2022 Explorastay (now TravelArrow) Remote
• Automated posting 1,500 rental listings on housing aggregator sites with Selenium Python, saving 9,000 manhours
• Developed new Chrome extension with React and JavaScript to scrape listing data from Google Flights, Hilton, Hyatt, and Wyndham
• Wrote specification for REST API and created sample Python programs for corporate partners Software Developer Intern JavaScript, REST APIs, HTML/CSS, Netlify June 2021 – Aug. 2021 Alan AI Remote
• Developed VChess, a voice-controlled chess app that uses Alan AI’s voice API
• Created step-by-step video & text documentation for new developers looking to build projects with the voice API
• Assisted other interns on their respective projects with JavaScript and web development Projects
azigy.com LLMs, WebSockets, SvelteKit, Supabase, TailwindCSS Dec. 2023 – Present
• Building a platform that lets teachers to transform existing educational materials into live, interactive game shows
• Utilizing GPT-4o to automatically transform teacher-uploaded materials into trivia and Jeopardy game content
• Engineering a real-time WebSockets-based system to power live game shows with hundreds of participants
• Currently doing $500 in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) Guten C, ESP32, Arduino, Python, CAD Jan. 2025 – Present
• Built a device that uses an embedded thermal printer to print a tiny newspaper every morning at 7:00 AM
• Wrote C code to send print commands from an ESP32 to the thermal printer via the serial port
• Created a FastAPI webserver that sends my daily schedule, a poem, and the current news to the ESP32 via HTTP
• Learned basic CAD in order to design and 3D print multiple interlocking parts for the device’s case Frodo SvelteKit, TailwindCSS, GPT-4, Langchain June 2024
• Developed an AI tutor that provides personalized, real-time feedback on coding tasks as students complete them
• Implemented a novel chatbox-free interface using SvelteKit & TailwindCSS for a more natural user experience
• Integrated GPT-4 for reasoning, Groq-powered Whisper for low-latency speech-to-text, and Langchain for structured output
• Awarded the AI+Education prize by Reach Capital at the 2024 UC Berkeley Calhacks AI Hackathon Chaplin Python, Auto-AVSR, LRS3 Feb 2025
• Built a real time silent speech recognition tool that reads lip movements and transcribes them into text, running entirely on local hardware
• Utilized a model trained on the Lip Reading Sentences 3 (LRS3) dataset to achieve accurate visual speech recognition
• Made it available as an open-source project
Weebo Python, Whisper, Llama, Kokoro Feb 2025
• Developed a real-time speech-to-speech chatbot utilizing Whisper Small, Llama 3.2, and Kokoro-82M models
• Implemented a system that processes user speech input, generates responses, and delivers them in a synthesized voice, facilitating natural conversational interactions JustBuzz.In JavaScript, WebSockets, MongoDB, Express, Git, DigitalOcean June 2020 – Present
• Built a full-stack multiplayer buzzer app with WebSockets to facilitate quiz bowl games during quarantine
• Implemented an Express server to handle routing, integrated NoSQL Mongo database to store game data, & deployed site to VPS on DigitalOcean
• Released app publicly, scaling to ~10,000 monthly active users within a year
• Used at events hosted by IIT Roorkee, the University of Akron, Region 9 Education Cooperative (New Mexico) lekchur JavaScript, whisper-tiny, Transformers.js Sep. 2023
• Built lekchur, a privacy-focused web tool that transcribes college lectures in real-time
• Utilized Transformers.js library to load OpenAI’s whisper-tiny-en model locally on device
• Wrote logic to run model asynchronously through web workers Technical Skills
Languages: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, SQL, HTML/CSS, OCaml, Rust Frameworks: Node.js, React, Svelte/SvelteKit, Flask, Express, TailwindCSS, Supabase, MongoDB, Arduino Developer Tools: Linux, Git, Vim, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vercel, VS Code, Eclipse, Arduino IDE Additional Accomplishments
Speaking Engagements: Presented talks on AI, LLMs and software engineering Blog: Author of technical blogs on AI, programming and personal projects at https://amanvir.com/blog/ Open Source: Contributor to open-source projects in AI and developer tools