RoleSoftware Engineer
Based InBellevue, WA

Nirmal Boghara

Merging code, creativity, and business to redefine what's possible with AI.

My Journey

From computer engineering studies to leading AI innovations that generate millions in business value. Here's how it unfolded.

Jan 2026 - Present

Software EngineerExperience

Conduit CommerceBellevue, WA

Took end-to-end ownership of the customer-facing web platform for Apex, unifying fragmented CRM, ERP, catalog, pricing, inventory, and customer data into one AI-assisted workflow that reduced sales-rep lookup and inquiry-triage time by 90% (internship conversion). Engineered full-mailbox/shared-inbox workflows across FastAPI, MongoDB, Temporal, and Microsoft Graph. Hardened 100K-row scale search and quoting with MongoDB Atlas Search, and built the orchestration layer for Ask AI agentic copilot with LangGraph and Temporal.

90% Triage Reduction & Full-Time Conversion

Oct 2025 - Jan 2026

Lead Research AssistantExperience

Designed non-myopic active-search models for landmine-risk assessment across 20+ regions, improving recall by 14% over baselines; published a first-author paper at LatinX in AI @ ICML 2026.

+14% Recall | ICML 2026 First-Author Paper

Jun 2025 - Feb 2026

Technical Project ManagerExperience

HackNYUNew York, NY

Led a 6-person engineering team as Technical Project Manager, managing technical architecture, platform execution, and infrastructure for the university hackathon.

Led 6-Person Engineering Team

Feb 2025 - Mar 2026

Technical AmbassadorExperience

QualcommNew York, NY

Implemented an offline AI teaching assistant with Qwen-1.5B, ONNX Runtime, and agentic RAG, reaching 92% accuracy; mentored 215+ students on model quantization and edge deployment across Columbia, Princeton, NYU, and Northeastern.

92% AI Accuracy & 215+ Mentored

Blog - From Old to Elite: How NYU hackathon winners embraced Snapdragon® X for their tech needs

July 2025

Featured in Qualcomm's Developer blog for winning the NYU hackathon with Snapdragon® X

Leadership
Blog

Mentor - Qualcomm Edge AI Hackathon Finale - NYU

September 2025

Was invited to mentor students in building AI-powered solutions using Snapdragon® X at NYU

Leadership

Mentor - Edge AI Hackathon

March 2025

Was invited to mentor students in building AI-powered solutions using Snapdragon® X at Northeastern University in Seattle.

Leadership
Edge AI Hackathon at Northeastern University
Mentoring students at the hackathon

Special Qualcomm HQ Visit

March 2025

Was invited to visit Qualcomm HQ in San Diego, CA to learn about the latest advancements in AI and their Chip Manufacturing Process.

Leadership
Qualcomm HQ in San Diego
Chip manufacturing facility tour

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

AI Innovator Intern IIExperience

ChewyBoston, MA

Led an agent-based marketing Copilot over 5M+ customer touchpoints in Snowflake, enabling real-time cohorting and 2x faster A/B testing; launched pilot campaigns that reduced unsubscribe rate from 5.3% to 3.3%. Developed XGBoost propensity models across 50K+ SKUs identifying ~$16M in annual revenue at risk with 100% ROAS lift, presenting results to CEO and executive leadership.

$16M+ Revenue Impact & 100% ROAS

March 2025 - August 2025

AI Business FellowEducation

PerplexityNew York, NY (Online)

Diving deep into the world of AI with the industry leaders around the globe.

Learning from AI leaders

January 2025 - July 2025

Chief Technology OfficerExperience

Failed StartupNew York, NY

Revolutionizing tourism with AI

Learned a lot and this gave me a founders mindset

September 2024 - Present

MS Computer ScienceEducation

New York UniversityNew York, NY

Pursuing advanced studies in AI systems, machine learning, and next-generation computing technologies.

Expected Graduation: May 2026

April 2024 - June 2024

Software Engineering InternExperience

BitnineSan Francisco, CA (Remote)

Optimized PostgreSQL databases with Oracle compatibility, improving query performance by 23% for enterprise applications.

23% Performance Improvement

September 2023 - November 2023

Artificial Intelligence InternExperience

Soulible DigitalMumbai, India

Engineered an AI-powered computer vision attendance system using YOLOv7 and TensorFlow, automating tracking for 200+ employees while reducing manual effort by 50% and boosting operational efficiency by 30% through cross-functional collaboration and Python-based optimization.

Reducing manual effort and boosting operational efficiency

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Software Development Engineering InternExperience

Feat SystemsMaharashtra, India

Migrated legacy Spring Boot services to Docker and Kubernetes, reducing cloud infrastructure costs by 18%; implemented MySQL improvements and SDLC documentation that accelerated developer onboarding by 30%.

18% Cost Reduction & 30% Faster Onboarding

May 2022 - July 2022

Full Stack DeveloperExperience

GoldenmaceMumbai, India

Architected a high-performance full-stack dashboard with TypeScript and Svelte, delivering 30% faster load times and 20% higher client satisfaction through advanced caching mechanisms and seamless UI/UX design across MongoDB and PostgreSQL data layers.

Improving client satisfaction and load times

Jul 2020 - Jun 2024

BE in Computer EngineeringEducation

University of MumbaiMaharashtra, India

Graduated with a 3.8/4.0 GPA. Specialized in AI, machine learning, and advanced algorithms. Organized campus recruitment drives for 50+ companies.

GPA: 3.8/4.0 | 50+ Recruiter Drives

Technical Expertise

Technologies and frameworks I work with regularly

Languages

Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
SQL

Frontend

React
Next.js
Material UI
TanStack Query
TipTap

Backend & Systems

FastAPI
Pydantic
Temporal
Redis
Kafka
REST APIs
SSE

AI & Machine Learning

LangGraph
LangChain
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
XGBoost
ONNX
RAG
LLM Evaluation

Data & Cloud

MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes

Mind & Body Balance

My athletic pursuits directly enhance my technical abilities. Balance isn't just a philosophy—it's how I consistently deliver results.

Technical Excellence
Physical Wellness

Soccer

Weekend league player
ENHANCES
Teamwork & Agility

Soccer enhances my ability to collaborate in fast-paced development environments

"The field awareness I developed in soccer helps me anticipate project needs before they arise."

Baseball

3 years playing experience
ENHANCES
Precision & Focus

Baseball taught me the importance of precision and patience - qualities I apply to debugging complex systems

"The discipline of batting practice mirrors the repetition needed to master coding patterns."
🧘

Yoga

Daily practice
ENHANCES
Mindfulness & Clarity

Yoga helps me maintain mental clarity during complex problem-solving sessions

"Yoga taught me to approach AI problems with a calm, focused mind."

"The discipline I've cultivated through baseball, yoga, and soccer directly translates to my approach in AI and technology. A balanced athlete makes for a more innovative technologist."

Current Focus

Current Role

Software Engineer at Conduit Commerce, building the next generation of AI-assisted commerce platforms (Apex) and graduating MS in Computer Science at NYU (May 2026).

Software Engineer @ Conduit Commerce

Opportunity Status

Converted from intern to full-time at Conduit Commerce. Closed to new job opportunities, but always open for technical networking, hackathon judging, and AI research discussions.

Job Search: Closed

Selected Works

A collection of projects demonstrating expertise in AI, machine learning, and full-stack development—each solving real-world problems.

2023—2025

15 Projects

CodeRalph

2025

real-time collaborative code editor

Created a real-time collaborative IDE with Next.js, Yjs, Electron, WebSockets, Babel AST analysis, and multi-agent LLM workflows with Ghost Agents that augment development with live collaboration, predictive conflict resolution, and automated code visualization. Won the AIE Code Agents Hackathon.

Next.jsYjsElectronWebSocketsBabel AST+3
Real-time CRDT

Collaboration

Predictive

Conflict Resolution

Hackathon Winner

Tuesday.com

2025

Digital Twins & Project Simulator Platform

Built 10,000 AI customer replicas to test email campaigns before sending. See who opens, clicks, converts—or unsubscribes—in under 800ms. Plus a Gemini-powered project simulator that shows ripple effects when timelines change.

ReactTypeScriptFastAPIScikit-LearnGemini AI+3
10,000

Customer Twins

<800ms

Response Time

Hackathon Winner

Sentio

2025

Visual RAG System with Agentic Computer Vision

A unified visual RAG system for security and law enforcement that processes video footage (body cams, surveillance, dashcams) with natural language search across visual content, spoken audio, and detected objects. Features multi-modal search, smart deduplication, real-time object detection, and click-to-track segmentation.

LLaVAYOLOSAM2WhisperLlama+3
~200ms

Processing Latency

$0

Cost per Frame

Hackathon Winner

GhostWheel

2025

Low-Latency CV Racing Controller

Built a real-time computer vision steering engine for Slowroads.io in under 60 minutes. Features smart frame skipping that decouples AI from render loop (2x FPS), custom PWM steering algorithm to fake analog input from binary keyboard, and optimized MediaPipe hand tracking with zero visual overhead.

PythonOpenCVMediaPipePyAutoGUIComputer Vision
<60 min

Build Time

2x FPS

Framerate

Side Project

Geminecraft

2025

Voxel Building Game in React

A pixelated voxel building game with first-person controls, multiple block types, dynamic weather, save/load system, and particle effects. Built with React 19, Three.js, React Three Fiber, and Zustand for state management.

ReactThree.jsReact Three FiberZustandTypeScript+2
5+

Block Types

Optimized

Performance

Side Project

Tiny LLM

2025

GPT-Style Language Model from Scratch

A minimal GPT-style language model built from scratch in PyTorch, trained on Shakespeare. Features a 4-layer transformer with 4 attention heads (3.2M parameters), character-level tokenization, causal self-attention, and top-k/nucleus sampling for text generation.

PyTorchPythonTransformersNLPDeep Learning
3.2M

Parameters

4

Layers

Learning Project

NegotAItion

2025

AI-Powered Price Negotiation System

An intelligent negotiation system that simulates realistic car price negotiations between buyers and sellers. Features AI-powered dynamic response generation, real-time sentiment analysis, multiple negotiation strategies (Stand Firm, Split the Difference, Final Offer, Walk Away), and progress tracking with negotiation metrics.

ReactFastAPIAnthropic APIPythonPydantic+1
5+

Strategies

Real-time

Analysis

Side Project

AI Journal built on Cloudflare Workers

2025

Serverless AI Journal with Durable Objects

A chat-based AI journal built on Cloudflare Workers using a custom agent pattern with Durable Objects for persistent state. Features a 5-entry context window for Llama 3.3 70B responses, automatic mood analysis via separate AI calls, SQL emulation layer for querying entries, and stateful memory across sessions—all running on the edge with zero cold starts.

Cloudflare WorkersDurable ObjectsWorkers AILlama 3.3 70BTypeScript+1
Llama 3.3 70B

Model

Edge-native

Architecture

Side Project

PyroGuard AI

2025

Multi-Agent RL System for Wildfire Suppression

Deployed an autonomous wildfire suppression system with multi-agent RL (Dueling DQN) drone swarms. Engineered a multi-objective reward system balancing suppression, efficiency, and safety, achieving 85% mission success and 2.4x more fires extinguished vs. rule-based drones. Awarded Best Presentation at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Multiverse Hackathon at Princeton.

PyTorchDQNCNNGymnasiumReinforcement Learning+1
85%

Mission Success

2.4x

Performance Gain

Hackathon Winner

TutorAI

2025

Offline AI Teaching Assistant for rural students and teachers.

AI tutor that helps students learn and understand complex topics through personalized learning paths and interactive quizzes. Learn from the best professors and teachers around the world.

PythonTensorFlowScikit-learnJavaScriptLocal LLMs+3
Qualcomm Blog

Published

Hackathon Winner

PawScript

2025

AI tool to convert live vet consultations into prescriptions.

AI tool to convert live vet consultations into prescriptions. Built a custom LLM that can understand the context of the conversation and generate prescriptions.

PythonAWSLangchainJavaScriptLLMs+1
70%

Reduced Manual Effort

Production

Agentic Marketing Copilot

2025

AI-Powered Customer Insights

Leading development at Chewy of an intelligent system creating rich customer cohorts for precision marketing and campaign optimization.

PythonLangchainTensorFlowAWSPostgreSQL
$16M+

Revenue Impact

100%

ROAS Improvement

Internship Work

FitFarm

2024

Smart Agriculture System

Machine learning algorithms predict optimal crops based on soil conditions with 93% accuracy. Published research in IJRASET journal showcasing innovative agricultural AI solutions.

PythonTensorFlowScikit-learnIoTJavaScript
93%

Accuracy

IJRASET

Published

Published Research

Fittify

2023

Comprehensive Health Platform

End-to-end health solution using MERN stack, serving 500+ users with personalized medical tracking, diet plans, and workout routines.

ReactNode.jsMongoDBTailwind CSS
200+

Users

95%

Satisfaction

Live Production

Employee Tracking System

2023

Computer Vision Automation

YOLOv7-powered attendance system reducing manual effort by 50% while serving 200+ employees with automated face recognition.

PythonYOLOv7TensorFlowPyTorchNumPy
50%

Efficiency Gain

200+

Employees Served

Enterprise Solution

Interested in collaborating on your next project?

Let's Connect

I'm always interested in discussing innovative AI projects, collaboration opportunities, and ways to push the boundaries of what's possible with technology.

Software Engineer @ Conduit Commerce

Bellevue, WA, USA

Get in Touch

Email

Best for project inquiries

LinkedIn

Professional networking

GitHub

Code repositories

Portfolio

Complete project showcase

Current Availability

Employed Full-Time

Response Time
< 24 hours
Timezone
PST (UTC-8) / EST (UTC-5)
Work Type
Software Engineer @ Conduit

What I'm Looking For

AI & Agentic Systems Architecture
Multi-Agent & RL Systems
Distributed Systems & Temporal
Technical Mentoring & Hackathon Judging
Open Source & Research Collaboration
Speaking & Tech Talks

Location & Work Preferences

Current Location
Bellevue, WA, USA
Work StyleSoftware Engineer @ Conduit
TravelOpen to relocation

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Let's build something incredible together."

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