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Samuel Prabhakar Vara

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in machine learning and healthcare research

The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks Remote

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Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership of scientific and AI-powered systems, including neuron imaging pipelines at Monell Chemical Senses Center and an LLM-based structured information extraction platform for Wharton and PSG. Stands out for turning messy, compute-heavy workflows into reliable production backends with measurable impact, including saving researchers over 50 hours per week.

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Key Strengths

  • Owned backend systems end-to-end from design through production operations
  • Built reproducible imaging/data pipelines with validation and versioning
  • Delivered measurable impact by saving a lab 50+ hours per week
  • Strong applied ML and scientific imaging workflow experience
  • Pragmatic tradeoff-making across reliability, scalability, latency, and developer velocity
  • Shipped MVPs in ambiguous early-stage environments through user discovery and iterative delivery
  • Improved production reliability with logging, monitoring, retries, and ingestion validation
  • Integrated vendor LLMs with guardrails, schema validation, and fallback logic for structured outputs

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Experience

Research AssistantThe Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania · Jul 2025 – Present
Lead AI DeveloperMonell Chemical Senses Center · Jan 2025 – Present
Head Teaching AssistantUniversity of Pennsylvania · Jul 2024 – Dec 2024
Data Analytics and Deep Learning InternAmazon · Jun 2023 – Jul 2023internship
Data Analytics and Deep Learning InternNational University of Singapore · Jun 2023 – Jul 2023internship
Founder and Lead Research ScientistSRM Visual Computing Research Community · Jan 2022 – Jun 2024

Education

University of Pennsylvaniamaster, Computer and Information Science (Artificial Intelligence) (2026)
SRM Institute of Science and Technologybachelor, Computer Science and Engineering (2024)

Awards

  • Winner of Perelman School of Medicine - Immune Health Hackathon 2025
  • Student of the Year Award - SRM University (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Academic Excellence Award - SRM University (2024)
  • Special Recognition Award - SRM University (2024)
  • 2023 Best Project Award

Skills

PythonDjangoFlaskJavaSQLMySQLPostgreSQLNoSQLMongoDBC++CReactNode.jsFigmaJavaScript

Languages

English

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Samuel Prabhakar VaraMid-level AI Engineer specializing in machine learning and healthcare research