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Malav Champaneria
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Malav Champaneria

Malav Champaneria

๐Ÿง  I build software that thinks โ€” and ships.

I'm a Software Engineer and a Master's student in Computer Science at Rutgers University (GPA 3.85/4.00). I design and ship full-stack systems end to end โ€” APIs, pipelines, databases, and the deployment around them โ€” with a specialty for putting AI, machine learning, and robotics to work inside real products.

I've built backends handling 150+ requests a minute at 98% accuracy, cut API response times by 40%, and engineered semantic search into a live government portal for the Government of India. This summer I wrote the autonomous navigation software for a 1,000-pound field robot at the U.S. Department of Agriculture โ€” a full GPS-RTK + depth-vision pipeline on ROS2 that hit 90% autonomy across 10+ acres.

My stack runs from Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL to Docker, CI/CD, and ONNX โ€” plus four peer-reviewed papers and a Rutgers-funded ML project along the way. I care about one thing above all: software that's not just clever, but reliable, scalable, and genuinely useful. Poke around the โ›๏ธ Projects and ๐Ÿ’ผ Experience tabs โ€” there's a lot to dig up.

4+
Years Code Experience
10+
Completed Projects
15+
Tech Tools Mastered
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Learning Mindset

๐Ÿ’ป Languages & Core CS

Python SQL JavaScript / TypeScript C / C++ Bash Data Structures & Algorithms OOP System Design

โš™๏ธ Backend & APIs

FastAPI Flask Django REST APIs Pydantic Microservices Testing & Debugging SDLC

๐Ÿš€ Cloud, DevOps & MLOps

AWS Docker CI / CD Git Linux Databricks ONNX Deployment & Monitoring

๐Ÿง  AI / ML & GenAI

PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn RAG LLMs & Embeddings Hugging Face Transformers / BERT GNNs Agentic AI LLMOps

๐Ÿ—„๏ธ Data & Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL MS SQL Vector Databases (FAISS) Query Optimization ETL Pipelines Feature Engineering Data Modeling

๐Ÿค– Robotics & Perception

ROS2 Autonomous Navigation RTK-GPS RGB-Depth Vision Sensor Fusion Computer Vision System Integration

๐ŸŽฏ What I Bring to a Team

Ship It

Backend & API Engineering
Python & Clean Code
End-to-End ML Pipelines

Strong Hands

LLMs, RAG & GenAI
Cloud, Docker & CI/CD
Databases & SQL at Scale

Leveling Up

Robotics & Autonomy (ROS2)
Distributed Systems
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WildFace Attacks & Defenses

Executed black-box model inversion attacks on CNN models using autoencoders. Designed probability-rounding, noise injection, and Isolation Forest defenses.

PyTorch Scikit-learn Defend System
GitHub
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SecureByBehavior

Created behavior-based authentication systems checking keystrokes and login anomalies with Isolation Forest machine learning on 2500+ records.

Feature Eng Scikit-learn Anomaly Det
GitHub
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U.S. Labor Analytics

Built big data preprocessors and interactive 3D dashboards displaying pre and post-pandemic employment projections from BLS statistics.

Plotly Big Data Pandas
GitHub
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Time Series GluonTS

Analyzed deep learning and statistical forecasting models on multi-series datasets, hitting minimal MAPE (0.18) using N-BEATS network.

TensorFlow GluonTS Forecasting
GitHub
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Glassdoor Scraping

Created an end-to-end data pipeline: scraped jobs data, preprocessed outliers, and deployed models predicting salaries with 89.9% accuracy.

Web Scraping ML models Predictive
GitHub
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Django E-Commerce

Designed a scalable product database and backend RESTful APIs with PostgreSQL. Integrated containerized testing and deployments on Docker.

Django PostgreSQL Docker
GitHub
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Core Domains Software & AI/ML engineering, Robotics, AI & Vision
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Key Experience USDA & INFLIBNET
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Peak Performance 90% Autonomy | 40% Latency Cut | 75% Reduced labour hours
Timeline Tracker

Research Assistant (Robotics)

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Federal Agency

๐Ÿ“ New Jersey, USA ๐Ÿ“… May 2025 - Aug 2025
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technologies:
GPS RTK Depth Sensors Python ROS2
โœจ Key Achievements:
  • โ€ข Architected and deployed an end-to-end autonomous navigation pipeline for a Farm-ng robot in real farm environments, integrating GPS RTK (1โ€“2 cm accuracy), RGB-depth vision, and ROS2-based control systems.
  • โ€ข Developed a 3D point cloudโ€“based waypoint planning approach with depth-aware gradient heatmaps, improving navigation precision by โˆผ10% over RGB-only methods.
  • โ€ข Enabled reliable traversal across 10+ acres with 90% autonomous operation, reducing manual monitoring by 75% through robust sensor fusion and perceptionโ€“control integration.

Python AI Developer

INFLIBNET (Govt. of India) Govt R&D

๐Ÿ“ Gandhinagar, India ๐Ÿ“… Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technologies:
BERT Transformers NLP Python
โœจ Key Achievements:
  • โ€ข Integrated BERT and Sentence Transformers into an educational portal, boosting semantic relevance scores by 18%.
  • โ€ข Built metadata-driven keyword mapping, elevating precise query matches by 22% and lowering irrelevant results.
  • โ€ข Benchmarked retrieval models, with Sentence Transformers delivering 40% faster execution while maintaining accuracy.

AI/ML Backend Engineer Intern

Innovatics AI Tech Lab

๐Ÿ“ Ahmedabad, India ๐Ÿ“… May 2023 - Jul 2023
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technologies:
FastAPI Flask Mediapipe OpenCV
โœจ Key Achievements:
  • โ€ข Implemented a computer vision application using FastAPI and Flask, processing 150+ images/min with 98% accuracy for real-time use cases.
  • โ€ข Applied scalable backend APIs handling 50+ concurrent requests/min, improving system reliability and integration efficiency.
  • โ€ข Optimized backend workflows, reducing response time by 40% and increasing overall processing throughput.
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Cisco Certified Network Routing

Specialization in networking infrastructure, routing switches, and network configuration safety pipelines.

Credly verified
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AWS Academy Graduate

Competencies in cloud computing architectures, load balancing, serverless systems, and cloud databases.

AWS Certified
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SQL Database Certification

Database structure designs, optimized SQL queries, indexing metrics, and relational schemas configurations.

Verified Certificate
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4 Peer-Reviewed Papers

Published in CRC Press, Springer Nature, Springer India, and Elsevier on ML in education, textile AI, sentiment analysis, and time series forecasting.

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