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Prasad Jawale

Software Engineer · Python backends & ML

New York, United States. Love photography and learning new things.

Overview

Software engineer building Python backends with FastAPI and Flask, ML/NLP systems with PyTorch and BERT, and production deployments on AWS and Docker.

Experience

Software Engineering (AI) Intern

Jun '26 - Present

Lyntra

  • Deployed Flask REST API on AWS EC2, integrating Amazon Bedrock LLMs and PostgreSQL-backed student LMS data.
  • Fixed OAuth2 PKCE verifier validation, restoring Google sign-in for React Native users on iOS and Android.
  • Built React Native course and assignment screens integrated with authenticated Flask REST APIs for LMS workflows.

Data Analyst Intern

Oct '24 - Mar '25

Wisconsin School of Business

  • Structured 100K+ hotel reviews into embeddings via a Python ETL pipeline, enabling downstream ML workflows.
  • Trained a Random Forest classifier on review embeddings, improving spam detection F1-score from 0.70 to 0.82.
  • Modeled 2014–2024 hospitality sentiment shifts using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), surfacing themes like cleanliness, amenities, and staff responsiveness.
  • Reduced BERTopic topic-modeling runtime from 45 to 10 minutes via GPU-accelerated embeddings and clustering, surfacing 15 themes for analytics.

Android Development Intern

Jun '21 - Aug '21

StoccGuru

  • Built Android support chat with RecyclerView, pagination, and in-memory caching for smooth long-thread scrolling.
  • Built Flask/MongoDB REST API with 5 endpoints for trading support chat, validated with Postman and pytest for 50 users.

Skills

Languages

PythonC++SQLBashJava

Backend & APIs

FastAPIFlaskREST APIsAsync APIsPydantic

Data & Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBPySparkElasticsearchETL Pipelines

Machine Learning

scikit-learnPyTorchNLPBERTClusteringSVDKNN

Education

  • University of Wisconsin - Madison

    M.S. Data Science · 2024 - 2026

  • University of Mumbai

    B.Tech. AI & DS · 2020 - 2024

Publications

LightGBM and Gradient Boosting for Optimizing Shipment Mode in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Springer Singapore

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Projects

Antares: RAG PDF Assistant

RAG pipeline for PDF upload, retrieval, and question answering.

Retrieval Augmented GenerationNLPPython
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Portfolio Website

Next.js + FastAPI portfolio with Postgres; deployed on Vercel.

Full StackTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLVercel
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Credit Risk Scorer

Loan payback ML with MLflow, FastAPI, monitoring, and live AWS deployment.

Machine LearningMLflowFastAPIMLOpsPython
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Playlist Recommendation System

Spotify Million Playlist–based recommender with a deployed web demo.

Machine LearningRecommendation SystemsPythonSpotify
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