Hi, I’m Ankita Sethi

Software engineer focused on backend systems, LLMs, and real-world ML products.

Ankita Sethi

About

I’m a Software Engineer who operates across backend systems, data engineering, and applied AI with a bias toward building things that actually work in the real world, not just in notebooks. My background spans scalable API design, ETL pipelines and LLM-powered applications, and I've shipped production systems across startups, enterprise environments, and university research labs.

Most recently I've been working as a founding engineer at a stealth AI startup, designing backend architecture and embedding pipelines for an image-processing and product discovery platform from scratch. Before that, I spent time at Stony Brook University as both a researcher and Teaching Assistant, building AI-powered accessibility tools for visually impaired users and supporting 170+ students across Data Structures and Computing Ethics courses.

My industry foundation came from Accenture, where I engineered large-scale data pipelines, automated extraction across 2M+ unstructured records using NLP classifiers, and was recognized on the Wall of Fame with an early promotion through the TechLeap fast-track program within my first year.

I believe the best engineers never stop being learners. New concepts don't slow me down they pull me forward. That curiosity has taken me from data engineering into NLP, RAG systems, vector search and computer vision. I've also led a 500-person technical event as an ACM organizer, mentored engineers and students, and served as Secretary of my university's CS Graduate Student Organization because building strong communities matters as much as building strong systems.

Outside of work, I enjoy perfecting espresso, creating food videos and sketching UI ideas while relaxing with music.

SKILLS

Languages

Python • SQL • Java • C/C++ • JavaScript

AI / Machine Learning

LLMs • LangChain • Transformers • PyTorch • OpenCV • RAG • Vector Embeddings

Backend & APIs

FastAPI • Django • Node.js • GraphQL • REST APIs • SQLAlchemy

Databases & Data

PostgreSQL • Snowflake • Redis • ETL Pipelines • Data Modeling • Tableau

Cloud & DevOps

AWS • Docker • CI/CD • Jenkins • Linux • Git

Frontend

React • TypeScript • JavaScript • HTML • CSS • D3.js

Projects

Member-Aware Question Answering System

Python • Django • Gemini AI • REST API • Render

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Multi-Agent Approach for Detecting Hallucination in LLMs

Python • NER • Hugging Face

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Smart Energy Assistant for Smart Homes

Python • ARIMA • GPT-4

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Global Happiness and Sustainability Analytics

React.js • D3.js • GCP

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Reddit Community Behavioral and Trend Analysis

TensorFlow • BERT • LSTM

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Object Recognition for Assisting the Visually Impaired

TensorFlow • OpenCV • Audio

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Security Vulnerability Analysis in PyPI Packages

Python • Bandit • Security

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EV Charging Demand Forecasting

Python • Time Series Forecasting • Scikit-learn • LightGBM • TPOT

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Interactive Visualization of Global YouTube Statistics

React • D3.js • Data Visualization • JavaScript • HTML • CSS

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Experience

Software Engineer (Founding Engineer)

Stealth AI Startup| Feb 2026 – Present

Building an AI-powered product discovery platform with FastAPI, vector embeddings, and image similarity search.

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Graduate Research Assistant - Software Engineer

Stony Brook University | Jul 2025 – Present

Advancing accessibility systems with Gemini 2.5 and NVDA for multimodal web comprehension.

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Graduate Research Assistant

Stony Brook University | Aug 2024 – May 2025

Developed NVDA–Gemini accessibility pipeline using Django and LangChain.

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Graduate Teaching Assistant

Stony Brook University | Jan 2024 – Aug 2024

Led labs and mentored 80+ students in Java and algorithmic design.

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Data Engineer

Accenture | Jun 2021 – Aug 2023

Built ETL pipelines and a Python–SQL chatbot for automated ticket analytics.

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Education

Stony Brook University – SUNY

MS in Computer Science (Aug 2023 – May 2025)

Relevant Courses: Data Science, Visualization, AI/ML, Algorithms, Smart Energy Systems

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GITAM University

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (Jun 2017 – Jun 2021)

Relevant Courses: DBMS, AI, ML, Probability & Statistics, Cloud Computing

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Blogs

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A Tech Event in the South Bay

When AI experiments go wrong: lessons from real-world failures, data nightmares and the people fixing them.

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Llama Lounge Agentic Hackathon

From Idea to Prototype: Building a Resume Agent at the Llama Lounge Hackathon

Contact

Let’s Connect

Open to backend, AI, and data-focused roles. I enjoy building systems that actually work in production.

Location: Santa Clara, CA