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Sanchusri
Kavitha Babu

MS CS at NYU Tandon · Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer · Building AI pipelines, scalable APIs, and data infrastructure that ships to production.

Sanchusri Kavitha Babu
3.90NYU GPA
3Hackathon Wins
500K+Records Processed
20+Production APIs
3Engineering Roles

What I work with
Technical Skills
Languages
PythonJavaC++TypeScriptJavaScriptSQL
Backend & APIs
Node.jsFlaskFastAPIExpress.jsREST APIsWebSocketsMicroservices
Distributed Systems
Apache KafkaApache SparkHadoopPySparkLambda ArchitectureStreaming
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLCosmos DBNeo4j
Frontend
ReactVue.jsHTML / CSSChrome Extensions
Cloud & DevOps
GCPAzureDatabricksDockerCI/CDGitJWT / RBAC
AI & ML
RAG PipelinesAgentic AILLM IntegrationPyTorchXGBoostScikit-learnTensorFlowNumPy
Core CS
Distributed SystemsSystem DesignConcurrencySecurityGraph RAG

Where I've worked
Experience
Jun – Aug 2026
New York, NY

Software Engineering Intern

CEARTscore · Clean Energy AI
  • Designed a config-driven Python validation framework flagging data-quality issues across 20+ regulatory/tariff sources (7 U.S. grid operators) against an 8-point rubric, onboarding new sources via YAML config alone.
  • Engineered statistical aggregation pipelines reconciling rate data across 54 zones (35-zone MISO, 19-zone PJM) from 2 grid operators into normalized rate bands across 12 cost datapoints feeding a live, investor-facing benchmarks product page.
May 2026 – Present
New York, NY

Head Teaching Assistant — Big Data

NYU Tandon · CS-GY 6513
  • Lead course operations for 32+ graduate students as sole grader for all assignments, authoring Spark/MapReduce assessment questions on fault-tolerant distributed pipeline architecture.
  • Run 2 weekly office hours on Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, and GCP Dataproc; debug submissions across GCP Dataproc and Jupyter Notebook.
May 2025 – Present
New York, NY

Graduate Research Assistant

NYU Human Capital Analytics Lab
  • Unified 3 occupational ontologies (O*NET, ESCO, SkillsFuture) — 900+ occupations, 18,000+ tasks, 8,700+ skills — into a Neo4j knowledge graph indexing 768-dim embeddings for cosine-similarity vector search across reproducible GraphRAG ETL pipelines in Cypher.
  • Built, tested, and ran a factorial evaluation harness (3 frameworks × 3 datasets + baseline) on NYU Greene HPC via SLURM array jobs, benchmarking cosine-similarity and RAGAs scoring across 5 quality metrics to support a peer-reviewed publication.
Nov 2024 – May 2025
London, UK

Software Engineer

King's Labs, KCL · Healthcare SaaS
  • Built distributed REST APIs (Node.js/Express) for Smile-Shot, a dental imaging SaaS — reducing P99 latency by 30% across 15+ endpoints.
  • Architected PostgreSQL → Azure Cosmos DB migration with zero-downtime cutover, improving query throughput by 28%.
  • Implemented JWT + RBAC and GDPR-aligned DICOM contracts across 15+ microservices; automated CI/CD (Azure DevOps), cutting deploy time by 30 minutes per release.
Jun – Aug 2024
London, UK

Software Engineering Intern

SmallCap.AI · Fintech
  • Shipped 20+ production REST APIs (Node.js, MongoDB) for Play2Earn.ai serving 100+ concurrent users, improving throughput by 35% via connection pooling and query optimization.
  • Built Flask microservices and MySQL schemas, reducing query latency by 25ms through indexing and normalization.

What I've built
Projects
Big Data · NYU

Chess Analytics Pipeline

Distributed batch-streaming pipeline processing 500K+ chess games (~80M moves) on Google Cloud Dataproc. Lambda architecture with Spark Structured Streaming achieving <2s micro-batch latency. Fault-tolerant ingestion with CNN trained on FEN-encoded board states predicting 11 endgame classes.

🏆 2nd Place · Hacklytics 2026

BLINDSPOT — RAG + ML Capital Allocation

Production-grade RAG pipeline indexing 2,388 UN documents with vector embeddings and semantic retrieval. XGBoost severity scoring across 5 datasets (+15% accuracy). Deployed end-to-end on Databricks in 36 hours with Gemini 2.5 Flash agentic reasoning layer.

HackPrinceton 2026

MedEcho — AI Medical Image Triage

DenseNet CNN classifying chest X-rays with GradCAM explainability heatmaps at 56% accuracy. Gemini 2.5 Flash dual-output pipeline generates clinical reports and patient scripts. Three-portal React system with live ClinicalTrials.gov v2 API trial matching across 6 diagnostic factors.

YHacks 2026

PolyHedge — Prediction Market Risk Intelligence

Real-time risk engine on live Polymarket data. Proprietary Alpha Score (0–100) across 4 signal dimensions detecting market mispricing. K2 Think V2 AI for hedge ratio optimisation across bull/base/bear scenarios.

HackNYU 2026

MindSafe — AI Media Safety Platform

LLM-powered media analysis platform built in 24 hours. Evaluates children's content across 8 developmental metrics generating age-specific Development Scores. Shipped as web app and Chrome extension with automated video safety classification.

Dissertation · KCL

Strype — Gamification Backend

End-to-end gamification backend (TypeScript) for strype.org, a live Python education platform. Badge logic, rule-based point progression, real-time dashboard (Vue.js) serving 250+ active users in production. Backed by usability evaluation with 20+ students and a 25,000-word research dissertation.


Competed & placed
Hackathons & Achievements
🏆 2nd Place — Fintech Track

Hacklytics 2026 — BLINDSPOT

RAG-based humanitarian funding allocation system. RAG over 2,388 UN documents, XGBoost scoring across 5 datasets (+15% accuracy). Deployed on Databricks in 36 hours.

Databricks
UN · Actian
Feb 2026
🥈 Runner-Up

Hack the Burgh 2025 — Avalanche

Real-time crypto trading assistant with 6 custom OpenAI function calls, Twilio voice interface, and live CoinGecko market data via FastAPI WebSocket.

Optiver
QRT · G-Research
Mar 2025
🥇 1st Place — Winner

Global Power Hackathon 2022

5G-readiness index dashboard integrating economic metrics with interactive data visualisation. Built in 24 hours.

Microsoft
EY · Pareto Economics
Nov 2022

Beyond the code
Leadership & Awards
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President — KCL AI Society

Organized 15+ technical workshops for 200+ attendees; mentored junior members on AI concepts. Earned the KCLSU Silver Crown Award for outstanding leadership.

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Head of AI Specialism — KCL Tech

Organised applied AI workshops and industry speaker sessions for 100+ members of the KCL tech community.

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Mentor — NYU WoMentorship

Mentoring 2 students in technical skill-building, career planning, and academic transition at NYU Tandon.