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 2027B.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 — PresentData 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 2025Machine 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 2024Data 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 2023Data 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 2025VP 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 — 2024Community 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
Eshaan Punalekar
Irvine, CAeshaan.punalekar@gmail.comgithub.com/eshaan10linkedin.com/in/eshaan-punalekar
Education
- Minor: Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Work Experience
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Projects
- 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.
- 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.
- A calm, minimal daily-learning tracker: log one thing you learned each day, graded via the Anthropic API.
- An independent auditor comparing Kalshi prediction-market pricing against traditional sportsbook odds, detecting divergences and grading its own calibration accuracy over time.
Additional
- 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.
- Helped organize and oversee a solar microgrid installation for a village of ~200 people, bringing running water and electricity to 40+ households.
Skills: Python, C++, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, PyTorch, sklearn, LangChain, Pandas, OpenCV, SciPy, MLOps, Azure Foundry, Databricks, Docker, Postman, Power Apps, Power Automate
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
Awards: Dean's Honor List, 2024–2026; Senior Class Valedictorian; CIF Scholastic Championship; President's List