Prashant Shivaji Salunke
Chicago, IL, USA 312-***-**** *******************@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/prashantt-shivaji-salunkke
EDUCATION
Master of Science - Computer Science Aug 2023 – May 2025 Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL
GPA: 3.00
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering Aug 2019 – May 2023 Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology
Pune, India
GPA: 3.50
WORK EXPERIENCE
Data Analyst Intern July 2023 – Aug 2023
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
As a Data Analyst Intern at Saint Louis University, I conducted comprehensive data analysis projects, utilizing tools like Power BI and Tableau. I led campaign analysis, evaluating engagement metrics such as Clicks, Unique Clicks, and Unique Link Clicks from Facebook Ads. This involved tasks like data collection, analysis, and presentation of insights. Ultimately, I contributed to decision- making processes within the organization, including identifying and discontinuing the least engaging campaign based on our analysis.
Personal Projects
Complex Blogging Platform (Skills - React, Node.js, Appwrite) Developed a full-featured blog with user authentication, CRUD operations, and real-time data synchronization using Appwrite as the backend server.
AI-Powered Meal Delivery App (Skills - React.js, Node.js, Python, REST API, Google Maps API) Built a GrubHub/UberEats–style platform with ML-based route optimization and ETA prediction, integrating real-time traffic data and mapping services.
Nike Customer Service AI Agent (Skills - React.js, JavaScript, GPT-4o-Mini Vision, Text-Embedding-3-Small, OpenAI API) - Created an AI-driven UI that recommends shoes by user prompt, detects product/package defects via vision, and checks order status using image-based intent recognition.
Personalized Recommendations Blog (Skills - React.js, Material UI, OpenAI Chat API, Open-Meteo/OpenWeatherMap, SerpAPI, Google Maps API) Implemented a “Recommended For You” popup that leverages geolocation, live weather, and AI- generated data to display local restaurants, concerts, and sports events on a map. AI-Enhanced Subscription Blog (Skills - React.js, Material UI, Elasticsearch, OpenAI API, Real-Time Weather APIs) - Developed topic subscribe/unsubscribe, OpenAI–generated reply toggles, and Elasticsearch–backed post storage/search, plus an AI-driven activity recommender based on current weather and location. Role-Based Multi-Topic Blog (Skills - React.js, Material UI, Node.js/Express, REST API, Role-Based Auth) Built a multi-topic blogging app with Student/Faculty/Staff/Moderator/Admin roles, enabling post/reply functionality, moderator deletions, and admin account controls.
Battleship Game App (Skills - Flutter, Dart, REST API) - Developed a cross-platform Battleship game with interactive UI, implementing game-state synchronization via a REST API backend. Todo App (Skills - React.js, Redux Toolkit, JavaScript) - Implemented a task management application with state management via Redux Toolkit, featuring add/edit/delete tasks and persisting data to local storage. Handwritten Digit Recognition (Skills - Python, Scikit-Learn, MNIST) - Trained and evaluated machine learning models
(logistic regression and SVM) on the MNIST dataset to achieve >98% classification accuracy for handwritten digits. Skills – Java, Python, React js, Node js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, REST API, Tableau, Git, GitHub, Microsoft Excel