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Basics
| Name | Abhishek Dharmadhikari |
| Label | MSCS Student at Georgia Tech | ML/Data Engineering Intern at Intuit |
| 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
- 2023.08
Institute Gold Medalist and Valedictorian
COEP Technological University
Gold medal awarded for being Computer Engineering branch and Institute topper (Rank 1/780) with a CGPA of 9.81/10
- 2023.01
Best Performer of Mathematics at UG Level
Alumni Association of COEP
Awarded for scoring a perfect grade (10/10) in all Mathematics courses (Linear Algebra, Calculus, Differential Equations, Probability & Statistics) at undergraduate level.
- 2022.09
Certificate of Merit (Third Year Topper)
Alumni Association of COEP
Awarded for 1st Rank in T.Y.B.Tech (Computer Engineering) with CGPA of 9.86/10.
- 2022.09
Frank Hirschvogel Excellence Award
Frank Hirschvogel Foundation
Award presented for the 1st Rank in Institute and Computer Engineering Department in T.Y.B.Tech with CGPA of 9.81/10.
- 2021.10
Certificate of Merit (Second Year Topper)
Alumni Association of COEP
Awarded for the 1st Rank in S.Y.B.Tech (Computer Engineering) with a CGPA of 9.89/10.
Publications
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2024.12.01 Improving Physics Reasoning in Large Language Models Using Mixture of Refinement Agents
Accepted at AAAI 2026 Workshop (arXiv:2412.00821)
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2024.10.15 GeoVQA: A Comprehensive Multimodal Geometry Dataset for Secondary Education
IEEE 7th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR)
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2023.10.10 A Comprehensive Survey of Weed Detection Methodologies in Soybean Crop
IEEE 3rd Asian Conference on Innovation in Technology (ASIANCON)
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2021.10.27 Attitude determination using a system of sensors and UKF for a solar sailing nanosatellite
International Astronautical Federation
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.