Resume

Eshaan Punalekar

B.S. Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) at UC Irvine. Applied ML, data engineering, and full-stack products shipped end to end.

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01//education

Education

University of California, Irvine

Expected June 2027

B.S. Computer Science (Spec. Intelligent Systems)

Minor: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Coursework

  • Machine Learning & Data Mining
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Probability for CS
  • Computer Vision
  • AI in Biomedicine
  • Design & Analysis of Algorithms
  • Information Retrieval
  • Data Management
  • System Design

02//experience

Experience

CliftonLarsonAllen

June 2026 — Present

Data and Automation Intern

Irvine, CA
  • Built human-review approval workflows, in-app preview cards, an admin page for prompt versioning, and a PowerPoint connector for an internal AI platform that converts client meeting transcripts into structured automation opportunities and solutions.
  • Produced Risk, Value, and Change executive summaries from client discovery calls, supporting enterprise AI adoption assessments.
  • Currently integrating Sage Intacct's MCP server to connect ERP financial data into agentic AI workflows for client engagements.

Emergence AI

July 2025 — Sep 2025

Machine Learning Intern

Irvine, CA
  • Built a standalone compliance MCP server, decoupling the agent from platform infrastructure and standardizing MCP development.
  • Deployed the MCP server to Emergence's CRAFT platform, a natural-language interface for enterprise agent workflows.
  • Implemented API auth, health and logs endpoints, and Dockerized configs to unify local, staging, and production deployments.
  • Standardized Markdown rendering pipelines, improving reliability and reducing latency across multiple connector agents.

Shift Technology

July 2024 — Sep 2024

Data Science Intern

Boston, MA
  • Extracted and structured medical codes from healthcare PDFs to build a unified dataset for downstream AI workflows.
  • Refined LangChain prompt pipelines for CPT↔ICD-10 relevance mapping, improving output consistency and accuracy.
  • Labeled and validated hundreds of healthcare documents in Label Studio to strengthen LLM evaluation datasets.
  • Delivered code-usage insights informing high-impact billing group selection and claims-evaluation model improvements.

Scienaptic AI

June 2023 — July 2023

Data Science Intern

New York, NY
  • Refined demographic datasets with Pandas, improving data quality for credit risk modeling pipelines across 3000+ counties.
  • Engineered economic and demographic features that enhanced underwriting accuracy and model interpretability.
  • Analyzed county risk patterns and delivered actionable insights, informing lending probability and credit modeling decisions.
  • Built reproducible analysis workflows that stabilized risk models and streamlined future data updates.

03//projects

Projects

ReturnTrack

July 2026
  • Full-stack receipt-tracking app using Claude's vision API to extract items and compute return and warranty deadlines against a self-researched policy database covering 70+ policies across 50 retailers.
  • Implemented multi-user auth, automated email reminders via cron jobs, and unit-tested deadline logic; deployed on Vercel.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • Anthropic API
  • Clerk

Scout

March 2026 — Present
  • Full-stack multi-sport recruiting platform with AI resume generation, coach outreach emails, and vector-based college matching.
  • Engineered a browser-based highlight video compiler with FFmpeg.wasm for client-side stitching and Google Drive MCP export.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Clerk
  • Anthropic API

Sprout

January 2026
  • A calm, minimal daily-learning tracker: log one thing you learned each day, graded via the Anthropic API.
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • Anthropic API

MarketEdge

June 2026 — Present
  • An independent auditor comparing Kalshi prediction-market pricing against traditional sportsbook odds, detecting divergences and grading its own calibration accuracy over time.
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prefect
  • httpx
  • Docker

04//skills

Skills

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • Java
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Swift

Web / Full-stack

  • Next.js
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Tailwind
  • Prisma
  • Clerk

ML / AI

  • MCP
  • PyTorch
  • LangChain
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Anthropic API
  • Pandas
  • Prompt engineering
  • API integration
  • scikit-learn
  • Computer vision
  • AI model training
  • OpenCV
  • Data labeling

Cloud / Tools

  • Databricks
  • Postman
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Azure Foundry
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate

05//involvement

Involvement

Kappa Sigma Fraternity

Jan 2024 — Jan 2025

VP of Finance

Irvine, CA
  • Managed a $50,000+ budget for 50+ members; prepared financial models and reports for chapter leadership.
  • Raised $7,000 for a Military Heroes philanthropy campaign and planned chapter events, negotiating venue and vendor contracts.

Gram Oorja

2022 — 2024

Community service — rural sustainable energy nonprofit

Helped organize and oversee a solar microgrid installation for a village of ~200 people, bringing running water and electricity to 40+ households.

06//awards

Awards

  • Dean's Honor List, 2024–2026
  • Senior Class Valedictorian
  • CIF Scholastic Championship
  • President's List