Pavitra Venkatesh

“Revamped a university academic calendar system into a Python-based calendar generation service, turning a weeks-long manual scheduling workflow into software that generates dozens of valid calendar combinations in under a minute. Also contributed to an Amazon search ML classifier by introducing precision/recall evaluation to better surface critical failure modes and improve prediction quality.”

“Built a personal product, Pilly AI—an AI-powered e-commerce product Q&A widget embedded via a simple script tag and served via Cloudflare CDN—covering landing page, backend, database, and deployment end-to-end. Implemented OpenAI integration with prompt/context engineering, JWT-authenticated APIs, and Postgres (NeonDB), and successfully sold the product to a client while shipping in roughly two weeks.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has shipped polished customer-facing experiences across iOS (SwiftUI), web (Next.js/React/TypeScript), and Python backends. Built systems ranging from an escalating smart-reminder engine to a sub-200ms search UI over 6M+ court records, and owned AWS production operations including resolving a real DB-connection-exhaustion incident with scaling and architectural hardening.”