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Kunal Mahato

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Experience

5+ years
Software Engineer

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Education

MEng. in Computer Science
B. Tech. in Computer Science

I’m a driven and versatile software engineer with an M.Eng. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech (May 2025) and a B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from NIT Allahabad (May 2018). I have 5+ years of professional experience with high-performance consumer electronics at Samsung and with the SaaS-based startup Turvo, focusing on global supply-chain management. At Samsung, I led optimizations for UI responsiveness, power management, and memory efficiency across multiple OS features. At Turvo, I architected Spring Boot microservices, Elasticsearch-powered GraphQL APIs, and Python-driven data pipelines to streamline 200K+ shipments and boost supply-chain reliability.

At Virginia Tech, I’ve led full-stack, cloud-native projects end-to-end from a Kubernetes-managed Next.js/Node.js U-Pass system that cut student wait times by 50% to LifexAI, an AI-detective dashboard leveraging Google Gemini Vision, Chart.js, and real-time Framer Motion visualizations to increase anomaly-detection accuracy by 30%. I thrive at the intersection of Software Engineering, Cloud architecture and AI automating CI/CD with Docker and Vercel, designing scalable AWS Lambda pipelines, and applying advanced models (SARIMAX, LGBM, SHAP) to real-world challenges like gentrification forecasting and RAG enabled contract parsing.

Whether building resilient microservices, optimizing frontend performance, or deploying intelligent ML solutions, I bring great attention to reliability, security, and user experience. I’m now seeking opportunities in full-stack, cloud engineering, and AI to deliver impactful products at scale.

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Experience

Turvo Inc., India

Role Icon Software Engineer

Duration Icon May 2021 - June 2023

  • Enhanced global search and filter efficiency by 10% through advanced Elasticsearch indexing and REST API implementation, improving data retrieval speed and accuracy for supply-chain operations.
  • Led the development and integration of a new Intermodal mode, migrating 216k+ shipments via Python scripting, ensuring robust data consistency across MySQL and MongoDB databases.
  • Managed reorganization of the Rules Framework with a Business Rule Management System, supporting role-specific shipment locks and mode-based status sequences, thus enhancing system reliability for over 10 clients.
  • Eliminated data vulnerabilities for 5 clients by encrypting credentials and storing them in Hashicorp Vault.
  • Elevated customer satisfaction and system performance by optimizing 5 shipment features (cloning, routing, sharing, orders, invoicing) through Agile methodologies.

Samsung, South Korea

Role Icon R&D Engineer

Duration Icon December 2019

  • Worked on UI and Notifications which helped launch the world's first foldable phone at Samsung HQ, South Korea.

Samsung, India

Role Icon R&D Engineer

Duration Icon June 2018 - April 2021

  • Maintained and optimized full-stack codebase for both UI components and robust back-end systems, enhancing performance for 1.48+ billion devices.
  • Improved performance by reducing battery usage and memory consumption by 20%, utilizing Java for back-end and front-end optimizations for low-end devices.
  • Handled 5 Application and Framework modules - Settings, Calendar, QuickPanel, Status-Bar and warning notifications.
  • Upgraded the customer satisfaction metrics by 10% through implementation of Search feature for Quick Panel.
  • Collaborated to develop back-end solutions for data porting, ensuring integration across 20+ network operators.
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Education

Virginia Tech.

Location Icon Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Degree Icon Master Of Engineering

Major Icon Computer Science & Applications

Duration Icon August 2023 - May 2025

GPA: 3.93 / 4

Relevant Courses: Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Web Application Development, AI tools for Software Delivery, Cloud Computing, Urban Computing, Usability Engineering, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology Allahabad

Location Icon Prayagraj, UP, India

Degree Icon Bachelor Of Technology

Major Icon Computer Science & Engineering

Duration Icon July 2014 - May 2018

GPA: 3.53 / 4

Relevant Courses: Data Structures, Analysis of Algorithms, Database Management System, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Cryptography, Object Oriented Modeling.

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Skills

Programming & DBs

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JAVA

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Python

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C++

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PostgreSQL

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MongoDB

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MySQL

Frontend & Web Dev.

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React

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TypeScript

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JavaScript

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HTML/CSS

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Streamlit

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Redux

Backend & API

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Spring

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Node.js

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Express

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FastAPI

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RESTful APIs

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Microservices

AI & Machine Learning

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OpenAI

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AppliedAI

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LLMs (RAG)

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TensorFlow

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Scikit-learn

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PyTorch

Cloud & DevOps

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AWS

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Docker

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CI/CD

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ElasticSearch

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HashiCorp Vault

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AWS CLI

Tools & Platforms

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Git

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JIRA

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IntelliJ

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Kibana

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UNIX

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Projects

UPass Manager

UPass Manager

Date Icon January 2025 - May 2025

Location Icon Virginia Tech

Kubernetes AWS React Node.js MySQL NFC Chart.js
  • Architected Kubernetes-managed Next.js, React, Node.js web app, ensuring 99.9% uptime for 10K+ student records.
  • Cut manual entry 95% with AWS Lambda automating S3 to RDS ingestion and boosted pickups using SES notifications.
  • Improved API speed 50% and secured role-based access via optimized GraphQL/REST endpoints (Express, Apollo, JWT).
  • Halved student wait times with a 100 ms NFC validation pipeline using Socket.IO for real-time distribution.
LifexAI

LifexAI

Date IconApril 2025

Location IconUniversity of Maryland, CP

Vercel Gemini Vision MongoDB Capital One Nessie Tailwind CSS
  • Built LifexAI - AI detective web app integrating Google Gemini Vision API, Capital One Nessie API, and real-time Chart.js dashboards with Tailwind CSS and Framer Motion, boosting anomaly detection accuracy by 30%.
  • Accelerated data loading 50% with Typescript React Query caching & Next.js APIs on Cloudflare Workers.
  • Ensured 99.9% uptime and global delivery via Vercel-hosted frontend and automated CI/CD with Docker.
Gentrification

Gentrification Prediction

Date IconAugust 2024 - December 2024

Location IconVirginia Tech

Feature Engineering Data Viz Geospatial Data Analysis ML EDA
  • Aggregated and fused US Census, Zillow ZHVI, Eviction Lab data into unified time-series geospatial database using ETL pipelines.
  • Developed binary classification models (LR, RF, LightGBM) with 5-fold CV and GridSearchCV achieving 0.77 ROC-AUC.
  • Implemented SHAP to interpret PCA reduced features, mapping components to original socioeconomic variables.
  • Built SARIMAX models to forecast 5-year SEIFA scores, identifying at-risk counties for policy planning.
Book Wonders

Book Wonders

Date Icon January 2024 - May 2024

Location Icon Virginia Tech

React Redux Java MySQL AWS
  • Developed a scalable e-commerce app with login, book browsing, cart, and checkout, supporting 1000+ transactions.
  • Designed responsive pages using React with Context API and Redux, improving load and data flow by up to 30%.
  • Constructed 15+ RESTful APIs in Java with MySQL integration.
  • Deployed on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Implemented JWT authentication for secure user sessions.
DoDEx

DoDEx

Date Icon April 2024

Location Icon Bitcamp-Hackathon

LLM RAG Elasticsearch AI Web Scraping
  • Engineered an AI parser using Python with LLM + RAG, improving Defense Contract validation accuracy by 30%.
  • Developed a web scraping and validation pipeline in C#, extracting and categorizing key contract data, and ensuring high accuracy through advanced AI-driven validation techniques.
Review Me

Review Me

Date IconAugust 2023 - December 2023

Location IconVirginia Tech

Python IoT Raspberry Pi TensorFlow Lite REST API
  • Developed a full-stack peer review platform using MERN stack, following MVC architecture, facilitating peer collaboration and online community building.
  • Implemented hashtag search, notifications, upvote/downvote, and comments for tailored content discovery and engagement.
  • Attained 95% test coverage with Mocha and Chai for reliable code quality, including unit and acceptance testing.
  • Enhanced user experience by 20% through features like post editing, search, notifications, and guest user functionality.
  • Implemented secure user authentication using JSON Web Tokens (JWT), ensuring encrypted and stateless communication.