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Name Abhishek Dharmadhikari
Label MSCS Student at Georgia Tech | ML/Data Engineering Intern at Intuit
Email ajd6@gatech.edu
Phone (404)-641-8663
Url https://abhi25072002.github.io/
Summary MS CS student at Georgia Tech specializing in Machine Learning (GPA 4.0/4.0). Currently an ML/Data Engineering Intern at Intuit (Mailchimp Core Data Products). Previously Software Engineer at Wells Fargo. Seeking Full-Time New Grad Software Engineering roles, starting May 2027.

Work

  • 2026.05 - 2026.08

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    ML/Data Engineering Summer Intern - Mailchimp Core Data Products Team
    Intuit
    ML/Data Engineering Intern on Mailchimp's Core Data Platform
    • Developing large-scale ELT pipelines and data workflows using PySpark, Apache Airflow (workflow orchestration), BigQuery, Dataform, Terraform (infrastructure as code), Kubernetes, and GCP for Mailchimp's Core Data Platform.
    • Designing an agentic MCP-server-driven system to automate the CI/CD validation stage, stage-to-production data-diff analysis, anomaly detection, and deployment verification, improving release reliability and reducing manual effort.
  • 2026.01 - Present

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    Graduate Teaching Assistant - Data & Visual Analytics (CSE 6242)
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Supporting 1500+ graduate students globally in the Data & Visual Analytics course.
  • 2025.08 - Present

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    Graduate Student Researcher
    Internet Intelligence Lab, Georgia Tech
    Research on RPKI and BGP/network security
    • Working on RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) and network security research under the Special Problems in Networking program.
  • 2023.08 - 2025.08

    Hyderabad, India

    Software Engineer - Assistant Vice President
    Wells Fargo
    Software Engineer in Finance Technology (Corporate Treasury - Valuation & Product Control) LoB, Independent Price Verification (IPV) Team
    • Led the end-to-end development of the IPV web application, supporting accurate pricing & valuation of financial portfolios worth $200B, following Agile and SCRUM methodologies, CI/CD, JIRA, and SDLC best practices.
    • Designed and delivered production-grade, end-to-end tested full-stack features using Django (backend services), Python and Pandas (ETL), Angular (frontend), SQL Server (relational database), Jenkins (CI/CD), and pytest for unit testing.
    • Architected a large-scale Python-based ETL data pipeline for data ingestion and processing of 20M+ records daily from 130 sources including database extractions, FTP servers, APIs, and file reads.
    • Optimized query performance by 66% (10s to 3s) through indexing and archival processes created using stored procedures.
    • Automated generation and validation of 50+ commodity control sheets using Python scripts, eliminating 250,000+ manual formula operations and saving 8 hours of effort, resulting in a 99.6% reduction in processing time.
    • Awarded the Team Spotlight Award for improving application availability and system reliability by 46%, reducing 100+ recurring yearly production issues, and enhancing monitoring through automated alerting pipelines.
  • 2023.06 - 2024.12

    Remote

    Research Intern - Multimodal LLMs, Machine Learning, Vision-Language Models
    Multimodal Digital Media Analysis (MIDAS) Lab, IIIT Delhi
    • Evaluated the reasoning capabilities of 5 Multimodal Large Language Models in the geometry domain, including LLaVA, G-LLaVA, and Gemini Pro Vision, using chain-of-thought, zero-shot, few-shot, and fine-tuning methodologies.
    • Led a team of 3 to create GeoVQA, a high-quality Indian-context geometry benchmark dataset with 4K images; conducted experiments across GeoVQA, PGPS9K, and Geometry3K to assess reasoning performance.
    • Devised the Mixture of Refinement Agents (MoRA) agentic framework to iteratively reduce reasoning errors in physics tasks, improving accuracy by up to 16% on SciEval and MMLU for open-source LLMs (LLaMA-3, Gemma-2). Accepted at AAAI'26 Workshop.
  • 2022.05 - 2022.07

    Pune, India

    Software Engineering Intern - Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) Unit
    Citi
    Summer Intern in Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) Business Unit
    • Proposed and migrated the UI of an in-house Process Automation Tool from Thymeleaf to Angular, used for productivity tracking and vendor resource management in the Payments and Receivables unit.
  • 2020.01 - 2022.02

    Pune, India

    Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem (ADCS) Contributor
    ISRO COEP Satellite Team Initiative (CSAT)
    • Implemented the TRIAD algorithm and an Unscented Kalman Filter in C to determine satellite attitude and improve the accuracy of attitude estimation, respectively, with testing performed using real satellite data.

Education

  • 2025.08 - 2027.05

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS)
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Computer Science - Machine Learning Specialization
    • Machine Learning
    • High Performance Computing
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Deep Learning
    • Data & Visual Analytics
    • Special Problems in Networking (RPKI & BGP Security)
  • 2019.08 - 2023.05

    Pune, India

    Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Honors in Data Science
    COEP Technological University (Formerly College of Engineering Pune)
    Computer Engineering
    • Operating Systems
    • Networking
    • Databases
    • Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Software Engineering
    • DevOps
    • Web Technologies
    • Object-Oriented Design
    • Cloud Computing
    • Network Security
    • System Administration
    • Big Data Analytics

Awards

Publications

Skills

Programming Languages
C
C++
Python
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML/CSS
Shell Scripting (Bash)
SQL
PHP
Databases
MySQL
MongoDB (NoSQL)
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Chroma (Vector Database)
Azure Cosmos DB
BigQuery
Frameworks & Libraries
ETL
Django
FastAPI
Node.js
React
Angular
PySpark
Pydantic
NumPy
Pandas
PyTorch
LlamaIndex
LangChain
LangGraph
Developer Tools
Git
Apache Airflow
Claude Code
Azure
GCP
AWS
Linux
Docker
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Ansible
Terraform
REST APIs
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Agile
CI/CD

Languages

English
Fluent
Marathi
Native Speaker
Hindi
Native Speaker
German
Beginner

Projects

  • 2026.02 - 2026.02
    MPI Communication Primitives & Parallel Monte Carlo Simulation - High Performance Computing
    • Implemented a parallel Monte Carlo simulation to estimate pi using MPI on Georgia Tech PACE HPC cluster infrastructure, distributing workloads across processors and achieving scalable performance up to 10^9 samples.
    • Developed custom MPI collective communication primitives (Scatter, AllGather, AllReduce, AlltoAll) using MPI_Send/MPI_Recv and executed experiments using SLURM (sbatch, srun) to analyze communication overhead and parallel scalability.
  • 2025.10 - 2025.12
    Shuttle-Route Mobility Analytics Platform (NYC Taxi Data) - Data & Visual Analytics
    • Built a distributed PySpark pipeline on Databricks to clean, ingest, and preprocess parquet-based multi-year NYC TLC data (50M+ trips), performed temporal feature engineering and cluster-to-cluster origin-destination aggregation.
    • Applied weighted K-Means and DBSCAN to uncover dense mobility hubs and high-frequency travel corridors.
    • Developed an interactive geospatial analytics system using Streamlit, integrating Folium, GeoPandas, Plotly Sankey, and 3D Deck.gl layers to visualize pickup densities and shuttle-route flows, backed by cached Spark tables for low-latency exploration.
  • 2025.11 - 2025.11
    Robust AI-Generated Text Detection under Decoding Shift - Natural Language Processing
    • Performed a thorough ablation study of AI-generated text detection under decoding shifts (temperature, top-p, greedy, beam search) and back-translation paraphrase attack, with AUROC, TPR@1%FPR, and log-perplexity as evaluation metrics.
    • Benchmarked zero-shot Binoculars and supervised detectors (Kim-CNN, RoBERTa) under varied generation and sampling strategies.
    • Constructed a balanced 20K-sample subset of TuringBench to ensure fair robustness evaluation under distribution shift.
  • 2025.11 - 2025.11
    Superpixel-Based Semantic Segmentation using Vision Transformers - Machine Learning
    • Developed an efficient semantic segmentation pipeline following the full ML lifecycle - Cityscapes data preprocessing, feature engineering, and ViT-based model training - achieving 53.77% mIoU, 90.74% pixel accuracy, and ~55 ms inference latency per image.
    • Implemented a CUDA-accelerated SLIC module and integrated ResNet-50 hypercolumn features with a Vision Transformer (ViT) encoder, reducing pixel-level computation from 2M to 2K tokens (1000x reduction).
  • 2024.03 - 2024.03
    Generative AI-Driven Sustainability Benchmarking Automation Tool
    • Spearheaded the design and deployment of a full-stack cloud and LLM-based web application on Azure App Service during a company-wide hackathon; led a team of 4 to automate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) PDF report analysis.
    • Engineered a RAG pipeline by integrating Azure Document Intelligence for PDF-to-text extraction, Azure Search Index for embeddings storage & context retrieval, and Azure OpenAI APIs for Q&A on 100+ page ESG documents.
  • 2023.01 - 2023.05
    Weed Detection using Vision Transformers (ViT) - Final Year B.Tech Thesis Project
    • Formulated the weed detection problem as 2 supervised learning tasks - classification and object localization/detection - proposing a ViT as backbone for Detection Transformer (DETR), applying regularization techniques to mitigate overfitting.
    • Achieved mAP@0.5 of 82.9% on the CottonWeed dataset (7% improvement over CNN-based detectors).
    • Published a survey paper at IEEE ASIANCON, providing a detailed taxonomy of weed detection techniques and the future potential of ViT in real-time smart farming solutions.
  • 2022.03 - 2022.05
    User-Threads (threadHive) - Operating Systems
    • Built a user-level multithreading library in C, supporting 3 mapping models: one-one, many-one, many-many.
    • Exposed APIs for thread lifecycle control and management, implemented synchronization primitives like spinlock and signal handlers for over 50+ signals.
    • Validated models using race conditions and achieved 80% reduction in execution time for matrix multiplications.
  • 2021.09 - 2021.11
    HTTP Server (HTTPHaven) - Computer Networks
    • Developed a multithreaded HTTP/1.1-compliant apache-like web server in Python following RFC 2616 standards.
    • Implemented 5 HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD), 15 status codes, 5 media types, and multipart form data handling.
    • Designed a customizable configuration file (similar to apache.conf) for server-side settings with 12+ configurations (e.g., Keep-Alive, timeout, persistent connections).
  • 2021.08 - 2021.09
    BankTrack - Banking Application
    • Built a full-stack banking application simulating account management, fund transfer, and admin operations, following a 1-sprint Agile workflow with 10+ integrated features.
    • Implemented JWT-based authentication, email/OTP verification, and role-based REST APIs using Spring Security and React.
  • 2021.03 - 2021.04
    Paint Application - Object Oriented Programming
    • Developed using 3 pillars of OOP (inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism) in C++ with OpenGL for graphics and GLUT for event handling.
    • Added 5+ features, including shape drawing algorithms, undo/redo, erase, area filling, border coloring, and brush tools.
  • 2020.09 - 2020.10
    Arbitrary-Precision Calculator - Data Structures & Algorithms
    • Built a bc command-like calculator in C supporting arbitrary-precision arithmetic (up to 10,000+ digits), with user-defined data structures, doubly linked list digit storage, and sign/precision handling.
    • Implemented a stack-based evaluator with a Finite State Machine-based parser to compute 50+ infix expressions/second, supporting 6 arithmetic operations.