Hrushikesh Thanikonda
AI/ML Engineer · Data Scientist · Jersey City, NJ (NYC metro)
Early-career builder who ships full products end to end — data pipelines, governed cloud platforms, and production web apps — and leaves behind documentation and systems others can run without me. Completed Anthropic's AI Fluency, Claude 101, and Claude Code in Action; currently completing Anthropic's Amazon Bedrock x Claude course while building a Claude application on Bedrock alongside it. One year of experience turning a support org's messy operational data into dashboards supervisors adopted for weekly coaching.
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken, NJ
Master of Science, Data Science · Sept 2024 – May 2026
Blekinge Institute of Technology — Karlskrona, Sweden
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science — published thesis: cyberbullying sentiment analysis · May 2021 – Sept 2023
Experience
Support Data Analyst (Intern) — HCL Technologies
May 2021 – May 2022
- Built an employee performance dashboard end to end — KPI definitions with support leads, SQL transformations, Power BI visual layer — cutting weekly reporting from hours of manual spreadsheet work to minutes; adopted by supervisors for weekly coaching and monthly reviews.
- Cleaned and validated ERP, ticketing, and CSAT data in Python (pandas) and SQL; added row-count and column-profile checks that caught silently broken extracts before they reached stakeholders.
- Documented cleaning rules and processes so teammates could rerun every extract without me; translated vague manager requests (“show me who is struggling”) into concrete metric definitions.
Assistant Coordinator (Volunteer) — Rashtriya Seva Samithi (RASS)
Jun 2022 – Jan 2024
- Supported the Thrift & Credit Program of RASS, an NGO — a microfinance initiative serving ~50,000 mostly rural women through self-help groups with 0% APR business loans and skill-empowerment programs introducing young women to technology.
- Maintained clean, analysis-ready loan and enrollment data; monitored repayment flow, alerted collections ahead of due dates, and built enrollment growth projections for program planning — alongside server upkeep and system security.
Law Tracker — Case & Expense Management Platform
2026
- Built for a real user managing family legal matters in India — replaced scattered records with structured tracking of cases, advocates, hearing/follow-up dates, and expenses; deployed to production and in active use.
- Owned the product end to end: Next.js/React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL with Prisma, NextAuth session auth with role-based access and Postgres row-level security, schema evolved across six migrations, deployed on Vercel; public roadmap includes AI-powered document summarization.
- Layered the codebase (repository / validation / queries / server actions) and debugged a cross-layer workflow bug that kept pending cases out of the approvals queue.
Live appCloud-Based Data Ingestion & Storage Platform
Sept 2025 – Dec 2025
- Designed and built an Azure data platform (.NET, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Storage) with three-role access control and human-in-the-loop approval gating all downstream data access.
- Separated storage layers by data shape — constrained relational metadata in Azure SQL, image binaries in Cosmos DB — keeping schemas enforceable.
- Eliminated hard-coded credentials via Azure Key Vault and tracked all access events for audit.
- Implemented ingestion-path validation and failure detection.
Insurance Data Engineering & Reporting Pipeline
Jan 2025 – May 2025
- Built Python/SQL ETL pipelines with schema-first design and explicit validation rules.
- Implemented data-quality checks — null handling, outlier detection, distribution-shift monitoring — to catch pipeline issues early.
- Produced validated datasets consumed by reporting and modeling layers; built Power BI dashboards surfacing trends and anomalies for stakeholder decisions.
AI-Assisted Portfolio Engineering — this site
June 2026 – July 2026
- Built a production Next.js/TypeScript portfolio spec-first with an AI coding agent under human review gates: 19 approved specification documents (PRD, IA, design system, performance budget) preceded implementation.
- Enforced a strict-TypeScript, single-typed-content-layer architecture with server-rendered content, semantic HTML, and reduced-motion accessibility paths.
Forecasting & Market Trend Analysis
Sept 2025 – Dec 2025
- Modeled BlackRock equity price series with ARMA models, selecting orders through ACF/PACF diagnostics rather than automated search.
- Modeled 49 years of macroeconomic data (California unemployment, 1976–2025) with SARIMA to capture seasonal and cyclical structure.
- Gated all forecasts behind holdout testing, confidence intervals, and residual diagnostics before decision-support use.
Undergraduate Research — Sentiment Analysis of Cyberbullying Tweets
May 2021 – Sept 2023
- Developed and published an SVM-based sentiment classifier (84% accuracy, 40,000+ samples) as a bachelor's research thesis.
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Technical Skills
AI Engineering
- Claude API ·
- prompt engineering ·
- Amazon Bedrock (coursework + in-progress build) ·
- AI-assisted development (spec-driven, review-gated) ·
- human-in-the-loop review workflows
Data Engineering & Pipelines
- Python ·
- SQL ·
- PostgreSQL ·
- ETL/ELT workflow design ·
- data ingestion & transformation ·
- schema design ·
- data validation ·
- data quality checks (nulls, outliers, distribution shift) ·
- failure detection ·
- pipeline reliability ·
- documentation & reproducibility
Machine Learning & Forecasting
- Time-series modeling (ARMA, SARIMA) ·
- ACF/PACF model diagnostics ·
- forecast validation (holdout, confidence intervals, residuals) ·
- classification (SVM) ·
- data annotation & human-in-the-loop labeling ·
- data augmentation
Product & Web Engineering
- TypeScript / JavaScript ·
- Next.js ·
- React ·
- PostgreSQL & Prisma ·
- NextAuth session auth ·
- row-level security & role-based access ·
- Supabase ·
- Tailwind CSS ·
- Vercel ·
- layered application architecture ·
- schema migrations ·
- Git & GitHub
Cloud & Platform
- Azure SQL ·
- Cosmos DB ·
- Azure Storage ·
- Azure Key Vault ·
- AWS ·
- role-based access control ·
- .NET backend services ·
- secrets management
Analytics & Reporting
- Power BI dashboards ·
- statistical diagnostics ·
- anomaly surfacing ·
- decision-support analytics ·
- translating vague requests into metric definitions
Certifications
- AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations — Anthropic Academy
- Claude 101 — Anthropic Academy
- Claude Code in Action — Anthropic Academy
- Amazon Bedrock x Claude — Anthropic / AWS (in progress)
- Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Professional Certificate
- Meta Database Engineer Professional Certificate