Darshan Ravindra Konnur

Experience

1. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Jun 2026 – Aug 2026, Boston, MA

   Software Development Engineer Intern

   • Designed and built a serverless prototype that automatically captures visual evidence for cloud security workflows using Java, Python, AWS Lambda, S3 and browser automation.
   • Defined infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, IAM and Docker; hardened the service with input validation, timeout handling, fault-tolerant execution and observability.
   • Built comprehensive automated validation spanning a Java evidence collector with 100% test coverage, Python Lambda unit tests and an end-to-end integration suite validating success and failure paths against a live AWS environment.

   Returned with a full-time SDE offer.

2. Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

   Sep 2025 – Dec 2025, Boston, MA

   Graduate Teaching Assistant, CS5010 Programming Design Paradigm

   • Mentored 300+ graduate students in labs and office hours on Java OOP, SOLID principles, UML, design patterns, debugging and unit testing with JUnit and JaCoCo.

3. Schneider Electric SURGE Award

   Feb 2021 – Nov 2023, Bengaluru, India

   Digital Workplace Engineer

   • Built enterprise workflow applications with Python/Flask, React, Node.js and MySQL used by 10,000+ employees; cut API response times by 30% through SQL query optimization and caching.
   • Automated Microsoft 365 administration and migration workflows with Python, PowerShell, Microsoft Graph API and Azure AD, reducing manual operational effort by 60%.
   • Containerized backend services with Docker and Kubernetes, built CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and added Prometheus/Grafana monitoring for consistent deployments and operational visibility.

Projects

1. Ticket-Forge 3rd Place, Google – MLOps Project Expo

   2026

   • Python
   • FastAPI
   • PostgreSQL
   • pgvector
   • Docker
   • GitHub Actions
   • Built an AI-powered engineer recommendation system that ranks engineers for software tickets using ticket context, engineer profiles, historical assignments, workload and recent experience signals.
   • Implemented pgvector similarity search, confidence scoring, explainability and cold-start recommendations.
   • Presented alongside 28 other teams at Google’s Cambridge, MA office as part of Northeastern’s Machine Learning Operations Project Expo.

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2. Trackfolio Live

   2026

   • TypeScript
   • Next.js
   • React
   • tRPC
   • PostgreSQL
   • Drizzle
   • Redis
   • Version-controlled resume management with branching for tailored versions, immutable submission snapshots, JD-vs-resume analysis and follow-up tracking; Next.js 16 + React 19, tRPC + TanStack Query, Drizzle ORM on Neon Postgres, Auth.js (GitHub/Google/magic links), Vercel Blob, Upstash Redis rate limiting, CI with CodeQL + Dependabot.
   • Live in production on Vercel.

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3. TRIPLAY_AI

   2025

   • Python
   • OpenCV
   • MediaPipe
   • NumPy
   • Pandas
   • Pygame
   • Built an AI game suite featuring Connect Four with Minimax and Alpha-Beta pruning, Snake with A* pathfinding, and gesture-based Rock-Paper-Scissors using OpenCV and MediaPipe.
   • Achieved 91% optimal move selection in Connect Four and 88% food-acquisition efficiency in Snake across 100+ simulations, with visual explainability overlays for AI decisions.

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4. ExpenseShare

   2025

   • React
   • Node.js
   • Express.js
   • MySQL
   • REST APIs
   • Built a full-stack expense-sharing platform, designing normalized relational schemas and REST APIs for users, groups, expenses, settlements and balance tracking.
   • Engineered database workflows using stored procedures, triggers, ACID transactions, indexing and pagination, with real-time updates and automated testing/CI for consistency, reliability and performance.

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5. Calendar Application

   2025

   • Java
   • Swing
   • MVC
   • Design Patterns
   • Built a Java Swing desktop calendar application using MVC with recurring events, multiple calendars, time-zone handling and event CRUD functionality.
   • Applied SOLID principles and extensible design patterns including Command, Adapter, Strategy and Visitor to structure application behavior and support maintainable feature development.

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6. Box Archive

   2023

   • Python
   • Flask
   • MySQL
   • Docker
   • Kubernetes
   • OAuth
   • Built a document management platform using Python/Flask and MySQL, integrating PingID OAuth for authenticated access to shared files and folders.
   • Containerized the application with Docker and deployed it on Kubernetes, and optimized MySQL database procedures to improve response performance by approximately 30%.

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7. Allocation Optimization of Medical Samples For Distributed Testing

   2021

   • Python
   • Mixed Integer Programming
   • React
   • Developed a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model to minimize distributed medical sample testing costs; published in IEEE Xplore.

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Publication