I am Suraj Naveen

PBS Wisconsin (Capstone)

• Building a RESTful search system with FastAPI, ChromaDB, and a React frontend that lets PBS staff query 500+ Airtable records using natural language instead of manually scanning spreadsheets.
• Owned the embedding model selection and chunking strategy for the retrieval layer, evaluating chunk sizes and overlap settings against real user queries to improve relevance.
• Working cross-functionally with PBS staff and a team of 5 students following Agile/Scrum with one-week sprints, weekly demos, and JIRA for backlog management.

Dealcycle AI

• Shipped two production SaaS apps end-to-end in Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Designed the PostgreSQL schema, managed client-side state with React Context and hooks, and built the frontend component layer.
• Integrated PostHog analytics tracking 15+ user events, used the data to identify performance issues in the onboarding flow, and shipped a simplified version that improved retention.
• Built a RAG Q&A tool in Python with a Node.js integration layer that parses 20+ client PDFs into chunked embeddings and returns top-5 results via RESTful API.

MAGIC Lab, UW-Madison

• Built a Python pipeline that ingests, cleans, and runs analysis on 1K+ data points across 10 studies, replacing a manual process researchers were doing by hand and improving data quality.
• Wrote PyTorch scripts that automated 20+ experiment sessions end-to-end, covering preprocessing, model training, and evaluation. Cut per-session setup from a long manual process to a single command.
• Built the R-based statistical modeling toolkit (EFA, SEM) and refined it through weekly iteration with stakeholders until outputs matched expected accuracy across all 10 datasets.

Evenforce Technologies (Getafix)

• Built React.js dashboard features for Getafix, a scalable SaaS platform serving 200+ car dealerships. Connected real-time tracking panels via configurable REST API endpoints.
• Identified and rewrote slow PostgreSQL/MySQL queries causing performance degradation on the dispatch view. Shipped features with a 10-person engineering team via weekly code reviews.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Relevant Coursework:Data Structures & Algorithms, OOP, Advanced ML in Python, Database Management in C++, Machine Organization (C, x86 Assembly), Mobile Systems & Applications, User Interface Development, Statistical Data Visualization.