Sandhya Venkataramaiah
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Full-Stack Developer and AI/ML enthusiast with 5+ years of experience in backend systems, cloud-native development, and intelligent applications. Recognized for leading InterviewAI (1st Prize at Vanderbilt Showcase), integrating Whisper, Mistral, and LLM pipelines. Proficient in React, Node.js, Flask, and AWS, with a focus on building scalable, production-ready solutions. Education
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
M.Sc. in Computer Science (GPA: 3.46/4.0) Aug 2023 – May 2025 Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum, India B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering (GPA: 3.29/4.0) Aug 2015 – Jun 2019 Professional Experience
Crewasis Brooklyn, NY (Remote)
Software Development Engineer Intern Aug 2024 – Dec 2024
– Developed scalable backend services using Node.js, Express, MongoDB with secure REST APIs, OAuth2, and logging middleware; improved response throughput by 30%.
– Led containerized deployments via Docker and GitHub Actions, contributed to architectural planning, Agile ceremonies, and team code reviews.
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Graduate Teaching Assistant & Grader Aug 2024 – May 2025
– Led labs and grading for courses in Applied Machine Learning, Data Science, and Full-Stack Web Architecture; guided students in model evaluation, backend development, and REST API design.
– Mentored 80+ students on Python workflows, Flask and MERN-based deployments, and performance tuning for ML projects hosted on cloud platforms.
Tata Consultancy Services Bangalore, India
System Engineer – Full Stack Mar 2023 – Jul 2023
– Refined SQL Server procedures and built responsive front-end modules using Angular 8 and ASP.NET MVC.
– Improved API performance by optimizing queries and automated CI/CD workflows via Azure DevOps, reducing test overhead by 25%.
Dhruv Technology Solutions Bangalore, India
Full Stack Developer & Software Trainee Dec 2019 – Mar 2023
– Built and maintained full-stack web applications using Angular, Node.js, and MySQL across analytics and judicial domains; conducted unit testing on Windows and Fedora for cross-platform support.
– Developed and tested Kafka + Debezium pipelines for real-time data synchronization between MySQL and Oracle databases.
– As a Software Trainee, restored legacy .NET applications, reconfigured SQL access, and resolved critical deployment issues in production.
Projects
InterviewAI Mistral, Whisper, Flask, React Apr 2025
– Developed an AI-powered mock interview platform that extracts skills from resumes and generates LLM-based questions. Integrated Whisper for transcription, Mistral (via Ollama) for evaluation, with a full-stack React + Flask pipeline. 1st Prize – Vanderbilt Immersion Showcase. [GitHub] Holographic Brain MRI Visualization VTK, Looking Glass, Python Dec 2024
– Visualized 3D MRI data using VTK and deployed it to Looking Glass Portrait for interactive holographic display.
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Climate Insight Tracker LLM Plugin, Chrome Extension, AWS Dec 2024
– Built Chrome plugin that logs climate-related browsing and invokes GPT-3.5 via Lambda + DynamoDB to detect biases. [GitHub]
DeepPrivacy3 GANs, Optical Flow, Privacy Apr 2024
– Implemented GAN with motion-aware masking for anonymizing faces in video; benchmarked on CelebA and YouTube Faces datasets. [GitHub]
Submity MERN Stack, DocuSign, AWS S3 Apr 2024
– Built full-stack contract submission app with React, Node, MongoDB; integrated DocuSign and AWS S3.
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Predictive Maintenance for CNC .NET API, SageMaker, ML Ensemble Dec 2023
– Built a hybrid model (SVM + ANN) to predict machine failure; integrated training with MLflow and deployed via
.NET API + SageMaker. [GitHub]
Disease-Drug Network Graph NetworkX, Graph Analysis Dec 2023
– Constructed disease-drug graphs and applied PageRank and clustering to identify repurposable Alzheimer’s treatments. [GitHub]
Othello AI WebGME, MCTS Dec 2023
– Implemented AI for Othello using Monte Carlo Tree Search; added plugin-based gameplay and visualization in WebGME. [GitHub]
Dual Window 3D Viewer OpenGL, C++ Jul 2019
– Built interactive OpenGL application with dual windows to render and rotate 3D objects using keyboard/menu input. [GitHub]
Secure Search Over Encrypted Data Cloud Security, Java Jun 2019
– Engineered a multi-keyword ranked search engine over encrypted cloud data to enhance privacy and scalable retrieval. [GitHub]
Certifications & Recognition
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Prize – InterviewAI Project, Vanderbilt Immersion Showcase [View] Executive Board Member – VU WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Promoting diversity in STEM through tech outreach and mentorship at Vanderbilt (Jan 2025 – May 2025) Crewasis Internship Certificate: SDE Intern [Link] Google Qwiklabs: Cloud Architecture Badge [Link]
IBM Cognitive Class: Python for Data Science [Link] ISRO–IIRS: Geoprocessing using Python [Link]
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, SQL, Java, C#, C++, Bash, HTML5, CSS3, VB.NET Frontend: React.js, Redux, Angular (v8–14), Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, WebGME, OpenGL Backend & APIs: Node.js, Express.js, Flask, Django, ASP.NET MVC, FastAPI, RESTful APIs, JWT, OAuth2 AI/ML & LLMs: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, LangChain, Whisper, Mistral, TinyLlama, LoRA, Prompt Engineering
MLOps & Deployment: MLflow, SageMaker, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, DVC, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Cloud: AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway), GCP, Azure, Vercel Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Firebase, Redis, Kafka, Debezium Tools: Git, Postman, Swagger, GraphQL, WebAssembly, Figma, Jupyter, pgAdmin, Power BI, Tableau Topics: Resume Parsing, Audio Transcription, Secure Search, AI Evaluation Pipelines, Microservices