Vetted Graduate Assistants in the NYC Metro

Dhaval Patel

Screened

Director-level Vaccine R&D leader specializing in clinical immunology and translational biomarkers

Pearl River, NY23y exp

“Operations and clinical-development advisor currently supporting two early-stage biotech companies (vaccines and kidney transplant therapeutics). Brings 20 years of vaccine/clinical development experience from Sanofi and Pfizer, and has directly guided a CEO by connecting them with key clinical scientists and regulatory experts to support IND strategy and clinical advancement decisions.”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the end-to-end navigation stack for a mobile manipulation robot (Cone-E), integrating ZED-2i SLAM into a real-time occupancy grid with live obstacle avoidance, A* planning, and lookahead control. Strong in real-time debugging and stability improvements (goal snapping/locking, obstacle persistence, rate-limited replanning) and validates changes on hardware, supported by simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI-based testing.”

“Analytics professional with Dell experience unifying global online sales, web analytics, SAP, and planning data across 20+ countries into scalable reporting pipelines and Power BI dashboards. Stands out for combining deep SQL/ETL work with Python automation, KPI design, and experimentation—delivering measurable outcomes like 80% less manual effort, a 2% conversion lift worth millions, and faster business decision-making.”

“Enterprise-minded builder who has owned complex, high-impact systems from discovery through stabilization, including a customer master data platform at AB InBev serving 2,000 sales reps across 13 countries. Also demonstrates strong AI product instincts, having built a first-place ReAct-style NYC property intelligence agent at IBM's AI Demystified Hackathon, while showing deep rigor in data quality, integrations, and production reliability.”

Niharika Bhasin

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and real-time web apps

New York City, NY0y exp

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

Isha Harne

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in ML applications and LLM platform engineering

New York, NY1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who builds and scales customer-facing and internal AI products end-to-end (React/TypeScript/FastAPI/MongoDB) with strong product instrumentation and rapid MVP iteration. Built an AI-powered code review assistant adopted across teams and integrated into CI/CD, reducing manual review time by 30%+, and has hands-on experience with LLM retrieval/reasoning systems (LangChain + FAISS) and microservices scaling using RabbitMQ, Docker, and AWS.”

“Full-stack engineer currently building an employee management system end-to-end with React, Node/Express, and PostgreSQL, including JWT auth and RBAC. Previously worked at TCS on large-scale State Bank of India web applications, applying Redis caching, server-side pagination/filtering, and async job offloading to improve performance and reliability.”

“Master’s capstone at Stevens: conceptualized and helped build a cross-platform assistive mobile app for visually impaired users with currency detection (ML), voice-driven AI chatbot (OpenRouter), and a guided navigation video-call feature using a shared room code. Personally implemented Firebase login/sign-in, facial-recognition login, video calling, chatbot integration, and led integration/testing across the full app.”

“Psychology- and care-management-trained candidate pivoting into hockey player representation/advising, with hands-on experience supporting people through high-pressure transitions (relocation, schedule changes, performance stress). Builds trust-based relationships through consistent communication and creates educational content (website/LinkedIn) focused on athlete wellbeing and navigating Prep/AAA/NCAA/pro pathways.”