AYUSH SAHU

Developed data-engineering and applied-AI solutions for rural citizens of Karnataka, analyzing meeting data and prototyping AI audio/video pipelines.

• Processed over 4 million entries of multilingual (Kannada/English) Panchayat meeting data spanning 12 months, extracting critical insights for government-citizen initiatives.
• Engineered and deployed LLM integrations and AI pipelines (text-to-speech, script-generation, speech-to-text), successfully handling over 30,000 API calls.
• Optimized system performance and reliability by implementing rate limiting, batch processing, request optimization, caching, and robust error handling techniques.
• Prototyped AI audio/video pipelines to enhance government-citizen information dissemination, improving accessibility and engagement for rural communities.

Spearheaded mobile frontend development for a payments startup, building a cross-platform React Native app with comprehensive UI/UX ownership.

• Designed and developed 6+ critical user-facing screens, including Home, QR-scan, and transaction history, for a cross-platform React Native payments application.
• Engineered a reusable component library comprising 20+ components, facilitating rapid cross-platform iOS/Android delivery and streamlining 4 core application flows.
• Owned the end-to-end UI/UX design and screen architecture, ensuring a consistent and intuitive user experience across the application.
• Implemented key payment functionalities such as QR, P2P, subscriptions, and bills/recharge within the React Native framework.

Led full-stack improvements and Docker-based DevOps for the Creative Commons RA website, enhancing maintainability and deployment reliability.

• Streamlined development workflows by merging 15+ Pull Requests, refactoring file structures and layouts, which reduced developer setup time by 75%.
• Enhanced user experience by modernizing 3 core layouts and rewriting legacy scripts to ES6, resulting in a 54% reduction in average page load time.
• Optimized CI/CD pipelines by implementing 3 Docker Pull Requests, decreasing local build time from 90 seconds to 20 seconds and enhancing deployment stability.
• Contributed to a reproducible and reliable GitHub deployment strategy, ensuring consistent application delivery for the Creative Commons RA website.

Talked about the "Impact of open source technologies in the public sector", and how it is changing the way we handle things in the government.

Led the IIT (BHU) Boxing Team, overseeing athlete fitness, training protocols, and overall welfare, and representing the club in Sports Council meetings.

• Managed athlete fitness, training protocols, and overall welfare as Captain of the IIT (BHU) Boxing Team.
• Represented the Boxing Club in IIT (BHU) Sports Council meetings and led the team to achieve 1st place in the Spardha competition.

Served as Team Leader for student onboarding operations across two consecutive academic years, leading mentors to successfully integrate new candidates.

• Led student onboarding operations as Team Leader for 2 consecutive academic years, ensuring smooth integration for new candidates.
• Directed a team of 25+ mentors and 4 senior mentors, successfully integrating over 300 new candidates into IIT (BHU).

Developed a responsive portfolio website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to showcase my projects, skills, and professional experience.

Created a professional-grade cinema website using cutting-edge technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Shery.js to deliver an immersive and visually appealing user experience.

Awarded Gold Medal at Spardha 2022, a premier national-level inter-collegiate sports competition, demonstrating exceptional athletic performance.