Education
North Carolina State University
2026 - Present
Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India
2021 - 2025Experience
FirstPeak.ai
Sept 2025 – Feb 2026- Python async backend for multi-channel conversational AI. Scaled to 10k+ concurrent requests.
- Voice Agent evaluation framework with LLM-as-a-judge, automating QA. 10x faster than manual testing.
- Parallelized Twilio voice test suite.
New Engen
Mar 2024 – May 2025- Migrated legacy JS monolith to modern TypeScript/Python services. +40% deploy frequency, -25% runtime bugs.
- Achieved 6x faster API response times, compared to legacy code
- Built Python GraphQL APIs with 100ms responses during 3x traffic peaks.
- RabbitMQ bulk email pipeline with idempotency and durability; 99.99% success.
Projects
EarningsLens
RL environment predicting post-earnings stock movement from earnings call transcripts and press releases; published an open-source dataset for reproducible benchmarking.
ChatGPT Tokenizer
Manual implementation of the Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm used by OpenAI in GPT-4.
NotebookLM
RAG chatbot for accurate, domain-specific question answering, with end-to-end document ingestion and retrieval workflows for long-form content.
HTTP Server from Scratch
Built an HTTP server from scratch using low-level TCP sockets, including request parsing and response generation; implemented multiprocessing to serve concurrent client requests efficiently.
Blogs
Publications
The Potential of Big Data and Machine Learning for Ground Water Quality Assessment and Prediction
Rajeev, Shah, Shah, Shah, Nanavaty — Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2025
View paperExploring Autoencoders and XGBoost for Predictive Maintenance in Geothermal Power Plants
Nanavaty — 49th Stanford Geothermal Workshop, 2024
View paperA Comparative and Systematic Study of Machine Learning (ML) Approaches for Particulate Matter (PM) Prediction
Pandya, Nanavaty, Pipariya, Shah — Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2023
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