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Meenakshi Madhu

Software Engineer

Software engineer with 2+ years of experience building scalable systems and intelligent applications that solve real-world problems.

About Me

My work sits at the intersection of backend engineering and full-stack development: designing APIs, data pipelines, and distributed systems that hold up in production. From migrating Spark pipelines at Citibank to shipping Django backends at LOCOMeX and payment integrations at The Buku App, I focus on how data flows, where systems break, and how to build things that scale cleanly.


I enjoy going deep on backend architecture and full-stack product work, understanding edge cases, and shipping solutions that are clean, reliable, and intentional.

Outside Tech

I love exploring new cultures through travel and food, experimenting in the kitchen, and practicing Indian classical music, which I have trained in for over a decade. I enjoy cozy, clever games, productivity hacks, and finding ways to make everyday life more thoughtful and intentional.


At my core, I am curious, structured, and ambitious. I believe in doing things well, learning constantly, and building work I am genuinely proud of.



Work

LOCOMeX Logo

Software Engineer Intern

LOCOMeX, Inc.

Jul 2026 - Present

The Buku App Logo

Software Development Intern

The Buku App

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Citi Logo

Software Engineer

Citibank

Jul 2022 - Jul 2024

Education

NYU Logo

M.S. Computer Science

New York University

2024 - 2026

NIT Calicut Logo

B.Tech. Computer Science

National Institute of Technology Calicut

2018 - 2022

Experience

Jul 2026 - Present
LOCOMeX, Inc. logo

Software Engineer Intern

LOCOMeX, Inc.

Ship full-stack features end-to-end (Python/Django) on a B2B supplier-management SaaS platform, from backend logic and APIs to role-based dashboards, in a fast-moving startup team.

PythonDjangoREST APIsPostgreSQLGit
Sep 2025 - Dec 2025
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Software Development Intern

The Buku App

Led a 3-member team to architect, build, and release a consumer marketplace app to 100+ live users in under 2 months. Owned Stripe payments, real-time sync, and auth integrations end-to-end.

SwiftFirebaseStripeREST APIsGit
Jan 2026 - May 2026
NYU ML for Energy Commodity Markets logo

Student Researcher

NYU ML for Energy Commodity Markets

Designed and optimized deep learning time-series models (ESNN, RNN, LSTM, GRU, Attention) to forecast next-day oil prices from macroeconomic data, improving predictive accuracy and model stability.

PythonTensorFlowPyTorch
Jan 2026 - May 2026
NYU Sixth Sense logo

Student Researcher

NYU Sixth Sense

Working with an interdisciplinary research team at NYU to develop wearable assistive technology to promote safe autonomous mobility among the visually impaired.

Jul 2022 - Jul 2024
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Software Engineer

Citibank

Migrated batch file-processing from Ab Initio to Apache Spark (20% faster) and legacy mainframe queues to REST microservices. Built Java parsers for financial data across 6+ enterprise clients.

Apache SparkJavaREST APIsMicroservicesGit
May 2021 - Jul 2021
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Software Engineer Intern

Citibank

Built Spring Boot health-check microservices and a real-time observability dashboard for critical banking infrastructure, cutting issue-identification time by 40%.

JavaSpring BootJavaScriptREST APIsMicroservices
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Skills

Languages

PythonJavaCC++JavaScriptTypeScriptSQLSwiftHTML/CSS

Frameworks and Databases

Spring BootDjangoReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisDynamoDB

Software Design

System DesignDistributed SystemsObject-Oriented ProgrammingMicroservices ArchitectureDesign PatternsREST APIsAgileGit (Version Control)

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesFirebaseCI/CDLinux/UnixApache SparkElasticSearchGitGitHub Actions

AI & Machine Learning

PandasNumPyMatplotlibScikit-LearnXGBoostTensorFlowPyTorchKerasEmbeddingsRAGLLM IntegrationAgentic AIOpenAIAnthropic

Projects

CompassNYC

Built an on-device AI assistant for NYC social services at Spark Hack NVIDIA using RAG (Qwen 2.5 7B, hybrid retrieval) over NYC Open Data, with a natural-language query interface and interactive map for location services.

PythonQwen 2.5 7BRAGHybrid Retrieval

scoutAI

Built a full-stack AI job-matching platform with hybrid semantic search (OpenAI embeddings) and structured resume extraction (GPT-4o-mini), reasoning through a five-tier scaling architecture from first principles.

Next.jsOpenAI EmbeddingsGPT-4o-miniRAG

Real-Time Collaborative Code Editor

Built a real-time collaborative coding platform with CRDTs (Yjs), WebSockets, and AWS, enabling conflict-free multi-user editing, persistent sessions, and live code execution.

PythonYjsWebSocketsAWSDocker

WealthWise Personal Finance Tracker

Built a full-stack budgeting app with PostgreSQL, integrating the Plaid API for live financial data and deploying to Azure via Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD.

DjangoPostgreSQLPlaid APIAzureDocker

AI Restaurant Concierge Chatbot

Engineered a serverless backend system on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Elasticsearch) to process and respond to user queries in real time, demonstrating cloud-native application design and scalable data pipelines.

AWS LambdaDynamoDBSQSElasticsearch

PCOS Detection using Machine Learning Models

Built end-to-end ML pipeline for clinical diagnosis, comparing Random Forest, XGBoost, and SVM classifiers with hyperparameter tuning (GridSearchCV) and feature importance analysis, achieving 87.9% accuracy.

PythonScikit-LearnXGBoostSVMGridSearchCV

Let's connect!

I live in New York City, NY, USA. Let's grab some coffee if you are around here!

I'm always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of something great.