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Zahra Shergadwala

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AI, computer vision, and data systems

WiDeS Lab, USCUSCLos Angeles, CA2 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).

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Key Strengths

  • Owned and shipped a mission-critical AV automation + dashboarding product used daily for hundreds of live events
  • Balances speed and quality via minimal reliable core, then rapid user-feedback-driven iteration
  • Designs for reliability in live/real-time operations (validation, fallbacks, safe rollout practices)
  • Strong full-stack architecture decisions (typed API contracts, backend-centralized transformations, single source of truth)
  • Microservices/async messaging reliability at scale (idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, monitoring)
  • Builds internal tools that achieve fast adoption by reducing daily operational friction
  • Took an LLM prototype to production by grounding outputs in real data (RAG) and enforcing structured JSON responses
  • Improved reliability by diagnosing pipeline stages (input/retrieval/reasoning/output) and using logging + prompt version tracking
  • Resolved inaccurate estimates by identifying weak retrieval and improving chunking, domain-specific embeddings, and similarity thresholds
  • Built stakeholder trust through explainable breakdowns and iterative validation against historical projects
  • Effective technical communicator: delivers hands-on demos with live prompt tweaks and log walkthroughs
  • Strong pre-sales partnership: aligns technical capabilities to customer pain points and customizes live demos with client data
  • Built end-to-end OCR-based license plate recognition system (perception + ML + integration) at Volkswagen
  • Improved OCR robustness under glare/shadows/motion blur/odd angles via preprocessing and plate isolation pipeline
  • Achieved ~95% character recognition accuracy
  • Real-time pipeline debugging and latency reduction through profiling and removing redundant preprocessing
  • Distributed pub-sub communication design using schemas/message contracts (Kafka, Spark workflows)
  • Modular, message-driven architecture mindset aligned with ROS node/topic patterns

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Experience

Graduate Research AssistantWiDeS Lab, USC · Feb 2026 – Present
AI/ML InternSolace Technologies · May 2025 – Jul 2025internship
Associate DeveloperMedline · Apr 2023 – May 2024
AI/ML InternVolkswagen · Apr 2022 – Jun 2022internship
Software DeveloperAV Automation · Jun 2025 – Present

Education

USCmaster, Computer Science
MIT World Peace Universitybachelor, Computer Science and Engineering (2023)

Awards

  • Winner - Algoholics hackathon
  • Winner - Aqua Robotics hackathon

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerNVIDIA Certified Generative AI - LLMs

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Zahra ShergadwalaJunior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AI, computer vision, and data systems