Open to Summer 2026 Internships

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
2Production Roles

What I work with
Technical Skills
Languages
PythonJavaC++TypeScriptJavaScriptSQLScala
Backend & APIs
Node.jsFlaskDjangoFastAPIExpress.jsREST APIsMicroservicesPostman
Distributed Systems
Apache KafkaApache SparkHadoopPySparkETL PipelinesLambda ArchitectureStreaming
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLCosmos DBVectorAI DBDynamoDBRedis
Frontend
ReactVue.jsD3.jsHTML / CSSChrome Extensions
Cloud & DevOps
AzureAWSDatabricksDockerCI/CDGitJWT / RBAC
AI & ML
RAG PipelinesXGBoostScikit-learnLLM IntegrationTensorFlowPandasNumPySciPyGemini API
Quant Methods
Time SeriesRegression ModellingCausal InferencePrediction MarketFinancial Modelling

Where I've worked
Experience
Nov 2024 – May 2025
London, UK

Software Engineer

King's Labs · Healthcare SaaS
  • Built distributed REST APIs (Node/Express.js) for Smile-Shot, a dental imaging SaaS — reducing upload latency by 30%.
  • Implemented JWT + RBAC access control across 15+ endpoints with zero-downtime deployments.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps, cutting deployment time by 30 minutes per release.
  • Migrated PostgreSQL → Azure Cosmos DB, improving query performance by 28% in production.
Jun – Aug 2024
London, UK

Software Engineering Intern

SmallCap.AI · Fintech
  • Built 20+ scalable REST APIs (Node.js + MongoDB) for Play2Earn.ai — 100+ live users, improving throughput by 35%.
  • Designed Flask microservices and MySQL schemas cutting query latency by 25ms.
  • Built ML preprocessing pipeline (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn) — 15% accuracy improvement in CV classification.
  • Deployed Postman validation suites + regression testing ensuring 99% uptime.
Jul – Sep 2023
Remote

AI Intern

Skolar Edu Tech · EdTech
  • Developed ML preprocessing pipelines using Python + TensorFlow processing 5K+ education records.
  • Built backend data transformation workflows improving feature extraction and model training efficiency.

What I've built
Projects
HackPrinceton 2026

MedEcho — AI Medical Image Triage Platform

End-to-end medical triage system built in 36 hours. DenseNet CNN classifies chest X-rays with GradCAM explainability heatmaps. Gemini 2.5 Flash dual-output pipeline generates clinical reports and patient scripts converted to multilingual audio via ElevenLabs. Three-portal React system with live ClinicalTrials.gov trial matching.

🏆 2nd Place · Hacklytics 2026

BLINDSPOT — AI Capital Allocation Engine

Production-grade RAG pipeline indexing 2,388 UN documents using Actian VectorAI DB. XGBoost severity scoring across 5 datasets. SciPy optimizer. Gemini 2.5 Flash LLM embedded in the platform. Built and trained on Databricks in 36 hours.

YHacks 2026

PolyHedge — Prediction Market Hedging Platform

Full-stack platform connecting leveraged crypto positions to live Polymarket contracts. Proprietary Alpha Score (0–100) across 4 weighted dimensions detecting mispricing. K2 Think V2 AI for hedge ratio optimization.

Big Data · NYU

Chess Opening-to-Endgame Analytics Pipeline

Distributed batch-streaming pipeline processing 500K+ chess games (~80M moves). Lambda architecture with Spark Structured Streaming achieving sub-2s micro-batch latency. CNN trained on FEN-encoded board states.

HackNYU 2025

MindSafe — AI Media Safety Platform

LLM-powered media analysis platform built in 24 hours. Multi-metric scoring algorithm using LLM transcription and semantic analysis across 8 developmental metrics. Shipped as web app and Chrome extension.

Dissertation · KCL

Strype — Gamification Feature Extension

End-to-end gamification for strype.org, a live coding education platform. 20+ badges, rule-based point progression, real-time progress dashboard for 250+ users. 25,000-word empirical research dissertation.


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

Hacklytics 2026 — BLINDSPOT

AI capital allocation engine for humanitarian crises. RAG over 2,388 UN documents, XGBoost scoring, SciPy optimizer, Gemini 2.5 Flash. Built on Databricks in 36 hours.

Databricks
UN · Actian
Feb 2026
🥈 Runner-Up — QRT Challenge

Hack the Burgh 2025 — Avalanche

AI-powered crypto trading assistant with real-time dashboards, Twilio voice alerts, and live market data integration. Built in 24 hours.

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

Global Power Hackathon 2022

5G-readiness index dashboard integrating economic metrics with interactive data visualization. Outperformed 6–7 competing teams.

Microsoft
EY · Pareto Economics
Nov 2022

Beyond the code
Leadership & Awards
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President — KCL AI Society

Led 15+ technical workshops for 200+ attendees. 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 the KCL tech community.

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Mentor — NYU WoMentorship

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