Professional Experience

Software Development Intern

Internship

Cerence AI

Hinjewadi, Pune · On-site•Feb 2026 - Aug 2026
  • Worked in the Cloud Speech / UDE Navigation domain, contributing to backend and full-stack workflows for production-oriented automotive AI systems.
  • Developed and integrated MCP-based LLM tools enabling automotive AI agents to access POI Search, Parking Search, EV Charging, Fuel Search, and Local Search services.
  • Implemented backend workflows using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, JWT validation, RBAC, header forwarding, session handling, and structured error handling.
  • Built Angular-based Embedding Management workflows for categories, intents, keywords, synonyms, provider mappings, query testing, and training example management.
  • Worked on production bug fixes, API validation, Dockerized frontend deployment using Nginx, JUnit testing, Mockito-based unit testing, and debugging through logs and API flows.

Industry Project Lead

Industry Project

Pune Municipal Corporation

Pune•Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
  • Led a civic-tech industry project focused on analyzing multi-year municipal complaint data to identify recurring complaint patterns and department-level trends.
  • Proposed an ML-based complaint classification and routing system to categorize citizen grievances and map them to the appropriate municipal departments.
  • Worked with data processing, analysis workflows, multilingual complaint understanding, PostgreSQL-backed storage, and Power BI dashboards for reporting and decision-making.

Function Execution Head

Volunteering

VIT Pune Model United Nations

Pune•Feb 2023 - Feb 2024
  • Coordinated logistics and operations for VIT Pune Model United Nations, managing event planning, delegate coordination, scheduling, and on-ground execution.
  • Led cross-functional teams for resource allocation, event flow management, and execution planning, improving operational efficiency and participant experience.