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Kushagra Pandey

Software engineer with over 2 years of experience building and shipping full-stack AI-integrated systems in production. Founded a legal tech SaaS scaled to over 500+ daily active users at 99.9% uptime. Experienced across the full stack, from React and Node.js frontend interfaces to AWS cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience in deploying LLMs via Anthropic Claude and OpenAI APIs into real production workflows.

Kushagra Pandey

Arizona State University

B.S. Computer Science · GPA 3.2

Graduating May 2026

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Languages & Frameworks
Cloud, Databases & Tools

Work Experience

Founder

Firmlytic Solutions Private Limited

Jan 2024 – Present · New Delhi, India

Launched and scaled an AI legal SaaS platform on AWS (React, Node.js, DynamoDB) as sole founder to 500+ daily active users at 99.9% uptime in beta phase, automating document intake, routing, and client workflows end to end.

Reduced attorney’s manual processing times by 40% by deploying Anthropic Claude APIs for document summarization, tagging, precedent finding, clause extractions, iterating on model outputs for enhancing results in production.

Shielded confidential and sensitive legal data across all partner firms by deploying Cloudflare WAF at the network edge, and enforcing least-privilege IAM across all the AWS services.

ReactNode.jsAWSDynamoDBLambdaCloudflareAnthropic Claude APIOpenAI APIREST APIsTypeScriptJavaScript

Production Assistant

ASU - Enterprise Brand and Strategy Management

Oct 2024 – May 2026 · Tempe, Arizona

Junior Developer

SS Pandey & Associates

Aug 2023 – Jan 2024 · New Delhi, India

Software Intern

CyberSophy

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · Hyderabad, India

Academic Projects

Aug 2025 – May 2026

Lyra - AI-Powered Matchmaking Platform

Primary Engineer (Capstone, Sponsored)

Case Study

Led architecture and development of Lyra as the primary engineer, serving as the sole technical point of contact for the project sponsor.

Designed the weighted matchmaking engine and integrated OpenAI API for the recommendation engine and Guardian AI safety filters.

Built and deployed the full stack (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React, Vercel, Render) with secure token authentication.

FastAPIPostgreSQLReactVercelRenderOpenAI APIGuardian AITypeScript

Jan 2025 – May 2025

Grocery Price Tracker

Database Management Project

Case Study

Led development of a full-stack price monitoring system tracking 50+ stores with real-time alerts.

Optimized PostgreSQL to handle 10,000+ daily price updates on items, delivering basket comparisons in under 200ms through indexed aggregations, smart caching, and a robust scraping engine.

PostgreSQLReactNode.jsWeb ScrapingCachingDatabase Management
Education

Arizona State University

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Degree: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Minor: Film and Media Production

GPA: 3.2

Completion: May 2026

Certifications
Relevant Coursework
01

Data Structures & Algorithms

Algorithmic complexity, advanced tree structures, graph algorithms, and dynamic programming optimizations.

Applied:Powering weighted matching computations and pricing aggregators efficiently.
02

Operating Systems

Process synchronization, multi-threading models, memory management, and system caching policies.

Applied:Tuning distributed scrapers and microservice concurrency threads.
03

Database Management Systems

Relational database theory, transaction isolation (ACID), index tuning, and schema normalization.

Applied:Optimizing PostgreSQL aggregations and indexing MongoDB collections.
04

Information Assurance

Security protocols, public key cryptography, network security, and secure session management.

Applied:Implementing JWT REST authorizations and setting up Cloudflare WAF.
05

Artificial Intelligence

Search methodologies, machine learning workflows, and model evaluation parameters.

Applied:Orchestrating Vertex Pipelines and embedding GPT recommendations.
06

Computer Graphics

Rendering equations, rasterization pipeline, vector math, and shader programming.

Applied:Creating fluid user experiences and hardware-accelerated layouts.
07

Human-Computer Interaction

User-centric research methodologies, interaction patterns, wireframing, and usability verification.

Applied:Auditing product layouts and prototyping responsive layouts.
08

Theoretical Computer Science

Automata theory, formal languages, Turing machines, and NP-completeness proofs.

Applied:Writing structured parsers and processing complex text states.