Shiven Ajwaliya - Portfolio

My Education

My academic background and qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Concentration in Artificial Intelligence

Northeastern University Sept 2024 - Dec 2027

Study Abroad: Data & Software in Int'l Gov't & Politics, Belgium May 2025 - June 2025

Currently pursuing my degree with a focus on software engineering, data structures, algorithms, and web development. Actively participating in hackathons and coding competitions while maintaining academic excellence.

Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Data Structures Algorithms

My Skills

Technologies and tools I work with

Frontend Development

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

Streamlit Basic

Vitest Basic

Backend Development

Node.js Intermediate

Express.js Advanced

MongoDB Basic

PostgreSQL Intermediate

Python Advanced

Flask Intermediate

TypeScript Advanced

SQL Intermediate

Java Intermediate

C Basic

Tools & Others

Git Advanced

Docker Basic

ESLint Basic

Prettier Basic

Postman Advanced

My Experience

My professional journey and career progression

CS2000 Teaching Assistant

Khoury College of Computer Sciences August 2025 - Present

Led weekly labs for 30+ students within a 600+ student foundational CS course, delivering lessons on recursion, data structures, and function design in Python while fostering a collaborative learning environment
Provided individualized office-hour support, reinforcing best practices in programming and software development
Evaluated 300+ assignments to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with course design principles

Python Pyret

Software Developer

Quak Travel LLC April 2025 - Present

Built a trip recommendation system using OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone vector search, and Prisma/PostgreSQL, powering personalized 3–28 day itineraries from a dataset of 2,000+ TikTok-sourced trips
Developed a scalable backend that integrated venue data from Google Places and OpenWeather and added infrastructure for reliability and scale (caching, logging, monitoring), forming the basis of the product demo that helped secure $30K in seed investment

TypeScript ExpressJS NodeJS Vector Embeddings PostgreSQL Prisma Docker

Prototype and GenAI Research Intern

InnoEra Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

Collaborated on website prototype enhancements and contributed to the overhaul of InnoEra (innoera.com) delivering custom solutions for finance, banking, insurance, and local living experiences
Researched 5 emerging GenAI tools across NLP and recommendation systems to explore applications in answering user queries and guiding customers to products, shaping the company’s early AI integration strategy

UI/UX Design Research AI Canva

Projects

Some of my favorite projects I've worked on

Rainfall Learning

Lead a 3-person engineering team to develop a tutoring platform for middle and high school students, while managing pull requests across 16+ contributors to ensure quality and consistency
Built core session services for bookings, cancellations, rescheduling, and integrated Google Calendar sync with recurring appointments to support hundreds of tutoring sessions with real-time updates

TypeScript ExpressJS NodeJS PostgreSQL Prisma React Docker

Quak AI Systems

Built a day-level trip recommendation system using OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone vector search, and Prisma/PostgreSQL to match user goals, budgets, and activity preferences
Engineered dynamic itinerary assembly logic that composes 3-28 day trips with lodging, flight injection, and budget enforcement across 1000+ sourced itinerary blocks
Delivered an intuitive editing experience for travel itineraries, with personalized day suggestions, explorable alternatives, and reversible changes via undo history

AI TypeScript ExpressJS NodeJS Vector Embeddings PostgreSQL Prisma Docker

Care Compass

Assisted in developing a personalized country recommender using cosine similarity on healthcare priorities, tailored to relocating residents
Contributed to building time-series regression to forecast health indicator trends from World Health Organization (WHO) data, supporting use cases like academic research and policy planning
Designed a global SQL data model integrating 7+ public datasets, with support for country comparisons, user preferences, and predictive scores

ML Python Flask MySQL Streamlit Docker

CoDesign

Built a Flask-based platform enabling developers and designers to create profiles and discover recommended collaborators based on matching skills, interests, experience, and availability
Implemented secure user authentication using JWT and designed RESTful APIs to support profile management, post creation, and real-time collaboration features, ensuring seamless user interactions across the platform

Python Flask MongoDB React

RoadQuest (Hackathon Project)

Developed a full-stack web application that gamifies road trips by generating dynamic quests between user-inputted locations, leveraging Google Maps API and OpenAI's GPT-based prompt engineering
Engineered the backend with Flask, MongoDB, and MongoEngine to support account creation, secure authentication (Bcrypt), and XP-based quest progress tracking with real-time leaderboard updates

Python Flask MongoDB React OpenAI API

Screenshot of Diabetes Prediction project

Diabetes Prediction Using ML & Python

Built a predictive model to assess diabetes risk using algorithms like Random Forest and Gradient Boosting, utilizing Python for data preprocessing, feature engineering, and evaluation with metrics like ROC-AUC and accuracy

ML Python Scikit-learn Pandas Jupyter Notebook

Hey, I'm Shiven Ajwaliya, a CS student at Northeastern University who is passionate about building meaningful tech products. Here, you can check out what I'm working on.