University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

BASIS Phoenix

Student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Capital One

ML Research Intern

• Design and implement intellectual property (IP) asset storage system to streamline the infringement reporting process and enhance seller experience, targeting a 30% decrease in erroneous submissions
• Iterate design with key stakeholders – product, engineering, and UX teams – to understand user pain points, technical constraints, and get buy-in for final proposal  
• Create additional AWS infrastructure to capture and store IP asset information, and a Java Spring endpoint to manage network requests
• Update existing frontend page (TypeScript) to send network request and populate dropdown with results

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Disruption Lab at Gies

Product Manager

•	Working in a team to develop and deploy loan default prediction model for corporate financial client
•	Using AWS Sagemaker, Lamdba to automatically update model
•	Employing agile development methodology to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables

Innovation Engineer - TechLab

At the beginning of the Fall 2021 semester, I was hired by the University of Illinois as a Course Assistant for CS 225: Data Structures and Algorithms, one of the most important classes at UIUC, taken by students from numerous majors, not just computer science. 

As part of this job:
•      I host weekly office hours, providing mentorship and guidance on coding labs and machine projects, while also assisting with running Lab classes over zoom. 
•      I help write python code for backend software tools to automate grading, attendance, and participation

Course Assistant

•	Collaborated with team to identify bugs and stress-test front and backend of IoT virtualization environment
•	Executed quality assurance strategy to ensure reliability and security of complex system infrastructure
•	Lead educational outreach efforts, and curated IoT content targeted for middle and high school students

Research Assistant

•	Worked in a team of three as a software developer to build a suitable Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) Recommendation algorithm for a startup client
•	Built python preprocessing algorithm which led to ~15% increase in final testing accuracy
•	Employed agile development methodology to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables

Innovation Engineer

•	Worked in a fast-paced environment, serving food items and interacting with customers.
•	Trained and onboarded new crew members to prepare them for success and safety

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Crew Member/Trainer

•	Optimized and automated backend of payroll application through the use of python scripts
•	Modernized frontend of React.js movie production application in collaboration with a team of developers

Adith Narayanan