ANUSH
SOMASUNDARAM

I design and build AI systems that replace manual, bottlenecked work with autonomous pipelines — spanning computer vision, agentic LLM applications, and the full-stack products around them.

Anush Somasundaram
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Work Experience

Four roles, one thread — turning manual, human-bottlenecked workflows into automated, agent-driven pipelines.

Research Assistant
OCT 2024 — MAY 2025
Stevens Institute of Technology · Hoboken, NJ

Built a multi-agent CrewAI pipeline that automated literature review end-to-end — query expansion, retrieval, relevance screening, and summarization — replacing a fully manual process. Screened 46,000+ papers across ACM, IEEE, Springer, and other libraries down to a targeted ~200 for manual review, with a cross-model consensus mechanism (two LLM-backed agents voting on relevance) added as a validation layer at the screening gate.

Computer Vision Engineer
JAN 2024 — JUL 2024
Inferigence Quotient · Bengaluru, India

Designed a proof-of-concept automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system end-to-end — camera capture through OCR inference — using YOLO for plate detection and PaddleOCR for recognition. Built a confidence-based sanity-check module with regex format guardrails that lifted accuracy from ~70% into the high 90s without retraining. Wrote a PaddleOCR fine-tuning guide viewed 32,000+ times.

Machine Learning Engineer
MAY 2023 — SEP 2023
UpTrain (Y Combinator W23) · Bengaluru, India

Contributed to UpTrain's open-source LLM evaluation tool, supporting A/B testing and prompt-based LLM-as-a-judge pipelines. Owned a Plotly-based visualization layer for side-by-side comparison of evaluation runs, shipped back into the open-source library. Documented internal codebases and ghostwrote technical content for the company blog.

Natural Language Processing Engineer
JUN 2022 — MAY 2023
Tataatsu IdeaLabs · Bengaluru, India

Built an Industry Relation Mapping system on the National Industry Classification taxonomy, using spaCy NER to extract entities from articles and a custom Cypher query generator to build the graph without hand-written queries — capturing 15,000+ relationships across 2,300+ industries. Rebuilt the pipeline in 2025 as an agentic workflow using CrewAI and LangChain.

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Education

Academic foundation behind the engineering.

2024 — 2026

Master of Science, Computer Science

Stevens Institute of Technology · Hoboken, NJ

2020 — 2024

B.Tech, Computer Science

PES Institute of Technology · Bangalore, India

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Selected Work

Published research, full-stack AI applications, and open-source repositories — from hieroglyphs to RAG pipelines.

No-Code Platform

Arivu — No-Code RAG Builder

A no-code platform for designing and testing end-to-end RAG pipelines through a UI. Modular, independent control over embeddings, chunking, retrieval strategy, query rewriting, reranking, and LLM selection, with a swappable vector database layer.

RAGLangChainOllamaFull-Stack
Desktop App · Electron

CalendarLLM — AI Scheduling Assistant

Natural-language calendar assistant that adds, moves, deletes, and summarizes events conversationally. LangChain-based engine resolves time conflicts and translates plain-English questions into SQL against a live calendar store.

ElectronFastAPISQLiteLangChain
Full-Stack LLM App

PrayerLLM — Spiritual Guidance App

An LLM application offering personalized, on-demand spiritual guidance through a modular agent pipeline with custom prompt-routing and middleware. Custom guardrails keep the assistant scoped and resistant to prompt-injection attempts.

LangChainDockerGCPGuardrails
Computer Vision

Textile Defect Detection

Compares cloth cuts to flag manufacturing defects using a VGG16-based PyTorch model, with OpenCV contour and edge-detection prototypes for garment inspection.

PyTorchVGG16OpenCV
Computer Vision

Face & License Plate Recognition

Haar cascade-based face detection and license plate recognition scripts — an early, from-scratch precursor to the YOLO + PaddleOCR ANPR system later built at Inferigence Quotient.

OpenCVHaar CascadesPython
Graph / NLP

Industry Relation Mapping

The NLP + Neo4j engine behind the Industry Relation Mapping project at Tataatsu IdeaLabs — mines keywords from articles to trace connection routes between industries.

spaCyNeo4jRedis
Coursework

Image Classification: Vanilla CNNs

A from-scratch CNN benchmarked head-to-head against a pretrained model for image classification, comparing training curves and accuracy trade-offs.

PyTorchCNNs
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Technical Writing

Long-form technical writing on Medium — 70,000+ combined reads. Full archive linked below.

Fine-Tuning PaddleOCR's Recognition Model For Dummies by A Dummy 32K+ reads
MAR 8, 2024
A practical, no-fluff guide to fine-tuning PaddleOCR — written out of the ANPR work at Inferigence Quotient.
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How To Safely Test Your LLM Prompt Changes
JUL 7, 2023 · PUBLISHED IN UPTRAIN
Written during my time at UpTrain — how to A/B test and evaluate prompt changes before they ship.
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Image Augmentation for Creating Datasets Using PyTorch For Dummies By A Dummy 7K+ reads
MAR 30, 2023
The augmentation pipeline behind my IEEE-published hieroglyph dataset, broken down step by step.
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Greedy Algorithms For Dummies By A Dummy
APR 10, 2022
Optimization problems, one greedy choice at a time.
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Graphs and Graph Traversal Algorithms for Dummies by a Dummy
MAR 15, 2022
BFS, DFS, and everything else you need to actually understand graphs.
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Basics of Automata Theory For Dummies By A Dummy
SEP 27, 2021
What "automaton" actually means, and why theoretical CS cares.
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Structured Data Types in C For Dummies By a Dummy
AUG 17, 2021
Structs in C, explained like a restaurant menu.
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Pointers For Dummies By a Dummy
AUG 15, 2021
Demystifying the concept that trips up every CS student once.
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Data Visualization Using Pyplot
NOV 11, 2020
An intro to plotting data trends and outliers with Matplotlib's Pyplot.
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Tech Stack

Tools I reach for, grouped by what they're for.

Languages
PythonC++JavaJavaScript
Agentic Workflow Frameworks
CrewAILangChain
Data & AI/ML Frameworks
PyTorchTensorFlowOpenCVspaCyNLTKPandasNumPyFlaskMatplotlibSeaborn
Databases
MySQLNeo4jRedisMongoDB
Focus Areas
AI Product DevelopmentModel Pipeline BuildingComputer VisionNLPPrompt EngineeringTechnical WritingDockerGCPAWSDjangoFastAPIElectron