04 — The surveyor

Route history

MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago. Building tools where scale and responsibility share the same codebase. Currently based in Chicago. The short version: I like systems that are measurably correct and demonstrably fair. Résumé (PDF) ↗

Experience — 7 waypoints

Aug 2025 — Present

Chicago, IL

Graduate Research Assistant

The Urban Transportation Center · UIC

Full-stack freight analytics toolkit and geospatial pipelines for 285+ Chicago-region municipalities.

  • Engineered a Next.js + FastAPI freight toolkit visualizing crash metrics and traffic volumes across 285+ municipalities, deployed on UIC RHEL9 with Docker and Nginx.
  • Architected Python pipelines processing 8.5M+ origin–destination pairs (300GB+) with chunked, atomic operations; containerized OpenTripPlanner to route across 2,926 zones.
  • Built an OpenStreetMap Overpass extraction pipeline classifying 10,000+ US railyard polygons into intermodal, classification, and spur categories.

May 2025 — Aug 2025

Chicago, IL · Remote

Open Source Software Engineer

Google Summer of Code · OpenStreetMap

OpenLR-compatible temporary road closure database, API, and map UI for the OSM ecosystem.

  • Built a temporary road closures database and RESTful API with PostgreSQL/PostGIS and FastAPI for real-time closure reporting in OSM navigation apps.
  • Implemented OpenLR location referencing for cross-platform encoding across OSM-based navigation systems.
  • Shipped a Next.js + Leaflet web app for community closure submissions; deployed on a dedicated OSM server with Docker, Nginx, auto-renewing SSL, and GitHub Actions CI/CD.

Feb 2025 — May 2025

Chicago, IL

Research Assistant

University of Illinois Chicago

Graph models of the Chicago road network for optimal congestion-zone analysis.

  • Constructed a road network graph of Chicago with OSMnx and NetworkX, filtering to primary/secondary roads for computational efficiency.
  • Engineered bounded cycle-detection algorithms to identify congestion zones and optimal camera placements within 3–5 miles of the city centroid.

Dec 2023 — Jul 2024

New York, NY · Remote

Team Lead & Research Engineer

SimPPL

Led a 5-person team; LLM hate-speech research and social network visualization tooling.

  • Led a team of 5 building a project discovery platform for fellows and team leads across the organization.
  • Co-authored a report with Prof. Deb Donig and the ADL on the impact of LLMs on hate-speech propagation in online forums.
  • Built a coordination network graph visualizer used across YouTube, Truth Social, and BlueSky data.

Dec 2023 — May 2024

Boston, MA · Remote

Software & AI Engineer

Boston University

Virtual marketplace experiments on fake advertising and consumer behavior.

  • Led a virtual marketplace experiment on Empirica.ly and React.js where producers choose between honest and deceptive ads while consumers select products.
  • Worked with Prof. Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Dr. Swapneel Mehta in the Digital Information Research Lab.

Mar 2023 — Nov 2023

Remote

R&D Engineer

SimPPL

Network analysis of YouTube video ecosystems via the YouTube Data API.

  • Analyzed YouTube videos, comments, and channels; visualized video–user–comment relationships as network graphs.
  • Shipped product pages for the company site, deployed on Vercel and Netlify with backend API testing and documentation.

Jun 2021 — Jul 2021

Mumbai, IN

Machine Learning Intern

Kaizen Future Tech

Stacked CNN/ResNet ensembles for natural disaster classification; Arduino IoT systems.

  • Built CNN and ResNet image classifiers for natural disaster detection reaching 95% accuracy.
  • Developed a stacked ensemble with XGBoost as meta-classifier to improve generalization.

Education

Aug 2024 — May 2026

University of Illinois Chicago

MS, Computer Science

GPA 3.7 / 4.0

  • NLP
  • Data Science
  • Algorithmic Fairness
  • Responsible AI

2021 — 2024

University of Mumbai · TSEC

BE, Information Technology

GPA 9.32 / 10

  • DSA
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Networks
  • Data Mining
  • Image Processing

Instruments

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • C/C++
  • GLSL

ML & Data

  • PyTorch
  • scikit-learn
  • PySpark
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • LangChain / LangGraph
  • Captum
  • OpenCV
  • Transformers

Web & APIs

  • Next.js
  • React
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • GSAP
  • Three.js
  • Leaflet / MapLibre

Geospatial

  • PostGIS
  • OSMnx
  • NetworkX
  • GeoPandas
  • Shapely
  • Valhalla
  • OpenLR
  • ArcGIS Pro

Infra

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Neo4j
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • Nginx
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux