← sneha hassan
Experience
FEB 2026 - PRESENT · PITTSBURGH
Carnegie Mellon University
Graduate Researcher, GenAI
- Fine-tuned a majority-voting ensemble of three domain-specialized LLMs on curated bio-imaging datasets, using consensus-based iterative training evaluated across 296 bioinformatics benchmarks for a 25% accuracy improvement.
- Architected and deployed a custom 8B-parameter LLM with tool-calling, plus async evaluation infrastructure with automated grading across bioinformatics benchmarks.
MAY 2025 - AUG 2025 · MT. LAUREL, NJ
Telvue Corporation
Software Developer Intern
- Created an event-driven push notification system using Rails microservices and the Firebase Admin SDK, with pub/sub triggers and retry logic, lifting mobile engagement 40% across 13K+ users.
- Led a 4-person cross-functional team across engineering, design and mobile to unify notification UX on iOS and Android, cutting design-to-production integration from 3 weeks to under 2.
OCT 2023 - NOV 2024 · BANGALORE
Ather Energy
Software Developer
- Architected a B2B fleet monitoring dashboard with real-time IoT telemetry (remote immobilizer, GPS, diagnostics) in React and Firebase, adopted by 3 enterprise clients managing 200+ vehicles.
- Shipped a full-stack carbon-footprint tracking PWA in Spring Boot and React Native serving 50K+ daily active users, cutting end-to-end tracking latency 25% with API response caching.
- Trained and deployed an ML pothole detection model at 92% accuracy using Python signal processing on accelerometer data, driving a 35% increase in safety-feature adoption.
- Owned a cross-team test automation platform in Java and Flutter, taking automated coverage from 32% to 78% and cutting QA cycle time 45% across 4 engineering squads.
- Streamlined 12 legacy Firebase Cloud Functions in Node.js and built custom SQL automation, reducing average API response time 20% and processing overhead 10%.
FEB 2023 - OCT 2023 · BANGALORE
Ather Energy
Software Developer Intern
- Developed 6 RESTful APIs in Spring Boot powering a favorite-locations feature for the Ather app (100K+ users), cutting location-search latency 40% with indexed queries and Redis caching.
- Built a full-stack campaign PWA with a React frontend and Java backend, enabling real-time participation across 10+ cities and driving 25K+ sign-ups in the first month.
STACK OF CHOICE
PythonTypeScriptReactNext.jsJava / Spring BootNode.jsPyTorchLLMs / RAGOpenCVFirebasePostgreSQLRedis