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Sakshi Karande

CS @ UMass Amherst
Software Engineer | Full stack & AI systems

Hello! I’m Sakshi, and I’m a CS grad student at UMass Amherst. Nice to meet you!

I’ve always been curious about what happens behind the products we use every day, how tech moves fast and turns ideas into things people actually rely on. I like pulling things apart to see how they work, and then trying to build a better version myself. That’s what pulled me toward research, and eventually toward building my own side projects.

These days I’m working on full stack apps and AI systems, with a growing focus on identity and access management, making sure AI agents can be trusted with real access.

Away from the keyboard, you’ll find me deep in a cryptic, conspiratorial Dan Brown novel, journaling now and then, and over-decorating everything I make.

I’m looking for full-time software engineering roles where I can put my whimsical skills to use building impactful things.

Experience
Sept 2025 - Present
Manning CICS

Graduate Research Assistant

UMass Amherst · Amherst, MA

  • Building LLM-based clinical calculator selection system using prompt engineering and retrieval methods
  • Expanded MedCalc-Bench to 700+ calculators by merging web sources and standardizing clinical metadata
  • Designed exclusion-matrix benchmarking methodology across 15+ clinical categories
  • Benchmarked GPT-5-mini vs GPT-4o, Mistral, and Qwen models, achieving 90% accuracy with 15% improvement
Aug 2024 - May 2025
Axia

Software Engineering Intern

Axia · Mumbai, IN

  • Built multi-agent AI system using LangGraph for automated content generation and evaluation workflows
  • Improved LLM pipeline quality by 45% through prompt optimization and model fine-tuning
  • Integrated generative AI pipeline into production website via FastAPI, reducing response latency by 20%
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deploy data-driven features across release cycles
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
TechCryptors

Data Science Intern

TechCryptors · Amherst, MA

  • Analyzed 50K+ real estate listings using Python and SQL to identify amenity-level and regional pricing drivers
  • Conducted multivariate regression analysis with hypothesis testing to isolate significant pricing factors and measure effect sizes
  • Built predictive models explaining 30% of observed price variance across regional markets
  • Delivered automated Tableau dashboards and data pipelines, reducing analysis turnaround time by 45%
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Klaere

App Development Intern

Klaere · Mumbai, IN

  • Developed native Android features using Java and Android Studio for B2B trekking platform adopted by 50+ trek organizers
  • Integrated Google Maps and Weather APIs for real-time route tracking and weather monitoring with improved data accuracy
  • Built 4+ core features including home screen, trek booking system, user profiles, and emergency contact registration
  • Optimized app performance reducing crashes and improving load times through efficient API integration and error handling

MS in Computer Science

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences · Amherst, MA

Sept 2025 – May 2027 (Expected)
  • Machine Learning
  • Advanced NLP
  • Theory and Practice of Software Engineering
  • Optimization in Computer Science
  • Data Science Fundamentals

B.E. in Computer Science

University of Mumbai

With a focus on AI & Data Science · Mumbai, India

Dec 2021 – May 2025
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Statistics
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Database Management Systems
  • Distributed Computing
  • Cloud Computing
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