AI/ML Engineer and software developer

Bhargavi Kurukunda

Goleta, Santa Barbara, CA, ***17

+1-805-***-**** • ******************@****.*** • www.linkedin.com/in/KBhargavi09 EDUCATION

Master of Science, Computer Science Expected: June 2026 University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, CA, USA CGPA: 4.0/4.0 Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering July 2024 International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), India CGPA: 3.2/4.0 WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Programming Assistant Dec 2024 – Present

UCSB Graduate Division, Santa Barbara, CA

• Spearheaded logistical and promotional efforts for campus-wide programs like Student Orientation, and the Graduate Student Leadership Certificate Series.

• Coordinated with faculty, staff, and peers to deliver impactful events for 3K+ grad students.

• Served as a key liaison between the Graduate Division and the broader UCSB graduate community.

• Cultivated leadership, public speaking, and project management skills through student-focused initiatives. Data Journalist Feb 2025 – Present

Daily Nexus, Santa Barbara, CA

• Developed data visualization tools to present complex datasets to a 28K+ student audience.

• Collaborated with writers to integrate data storytelling, enhancing article impact and readability. Graduate Teaching Assistant Jan 2025 – Mar 2025

UC Santa Barbara, CA

• Mentored a diverse cohort of graduate students, clarifying theoretical concepts and debugging distributed code implementations.

• Held weekly office hours and discussion sessions, providing in-depth guidance on topics such as Paxos, Raft, MapReduce, and CAP theorem.

Technical Volunteer Staff Dec 2023

ACM CompED, India

• Lead tech support member for the 2nd ACM CompED global conference in India.

• Collaborated with the organizing chair to schedule attendees stay and travel itinerary. Researcher and Developer Jul 2023 – May 2024

OS Virtual Labs, India

• Developed and deployed interactive online web simulations on Linux OS concepts.

• Conducted workshops to test the product which helped in extensive UX research.

• Presented the project at R&D showcase to representatives from 15 universities.

• The experiments designed are now used by almost 11 million users in India.

• Poster presentation at ACM CompEd 2023 global conference. Frontend Intern Aug 2022– Mar 2023

Pentaprism, India

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop responsive UIs using MERN stack.

• Built reusable, modular components with React.js to enhance code efficiency.

• Improved page load times by optimizing JS, resulting in a 20% reduction in loading speed. SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, C, C++, JS, Ruby

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, Elastic beanstalk) Tools and IDEs: Git, Emacs, Figma, VSCode, Docker, Overleaf, MATLAB, Selenium Machine Learning and AI: PyTorch, GNNs, Hugging Face Transformers and datasets, LIT Application Development: MERN, HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, MySQL PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Website login and testing automation

Developed automation tools using Selenium and chromium tools to facilitate fast and secure login and data testing on various small business websites.

Role-specific agents in LLMs

A research-oriented project in the evolving field of multi-agent systems to test and try new implementations of agents and formulate new structures for agent collaboration. Racket Compiler

Compiler developed using Racket programming language to generate assembly level code from racket programs. Remote Pregnancy Monitor (Flutter – Firebase - ZohoCRM) Mobile application designed to monitor the health of pregnant women and study their vitals in remotely rural India. IMS possible

Conducted detailed and comprehensive user research on an academic institution’s IMS and proposed a more user- friendly model

GauchoEats (Ruby on Rails)

Web applications like UberEats to test load balancing on various AWS servers and databases. Used EC2 and S3 services.

Room Occupancy Detection

Embedded systems - IoT - Smart home appliances. Designed to detect human presence in a room and display the room conditions like occupancy, temperature, humidity recorded by the system on the dashboard. InkON (Java with Gradle)

A Linux supported novel writing application for writers to create and edit character notes, drafts, and chapters. Clash of Clans – A Terminal Game

A Linux Terminal Game version of Clash of Clans developed using python and OOPS. CERTIFICATIONS

Google Digital Marketing Issued Nov 2021

Google Digital Garage

Credential ID: XBQ KVY VHB

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