✦ Bangalore, India · Open to Opportunities

Khanak Shah

9.46

CGPA · VIT Vellore

Patents Filed

Branch Rank ’23–24

Impact Projects

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Work

Experience

Associate SDE Intern · DevOps Team

Gartner

May 2026 – Jul 2026

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Automated the AWS Lambda runtime upgrade pipeline using AWS Transform, reducing manual effort, migration time, and operational costs by 70–80%; identified 171 inactive AWS Lambda functions, contributing to the cleanup of 123 to improve cloud scalability and reduce infrastructure costs.
Built an App Configuration Validator to detect invalid endpoints during the PR stage, reducing troubleshooting time by 75–85%, from 2+ hours to just 10–15 minutes and preventing deployment failures; automated the deployment of an AI-powered Conference Assistant using AWS services and supported API Gateway version migration and release.

Open Source Contributor

GirlScript Summer of Code (GSSoC ’25)

Jul – Sep 2025

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Selected as a contributor working on real-world projects — fixing issues, adding features, and collaborating with maintainers globally.
Built hands-on depth in Git workflows and open-source development best practices.

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Projects

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AI · Blockchain · Safety

GuardianAI

AI-driven personal safety system detecting distress signals and classifying environments as safe or unsafe in real time. Uses 3D CNN (R3D-18) + Random Forest for multimodal video analysis. Evidence stored immutably on Polygon blockchain for legal admissibility.

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowOpenCVReact NativeNode.jsPostgreSQLPolygon

NLP · ML · Social Impact

Workplace Microaggression Detector

End-to-end ML web app detecting language that marginalizes women in workplace communication. Preprocessed with SpaCy NLP, deployed on Flask, with 91% accuracy using TF-IDF logistic regression.

PythonScikit-learnSpaCyPandasFlask

GenAI · Healthcare · Accessibility

Medimate AI

Rural-focused AI medical assistant explaining prescriptions in 20+ Indian languages via Gemini API. Designed to close healthcare literacy gaps for underserved populations across diverse regions.

PythonStreamlitGemini API

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Recognition

Awards

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1st Prize — InnovAct-2025 Hackathon

Vellore Institute of Technology

2025

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Merit Scholarship — 1st Rank in Branch

Academic Year 2023–24

2024

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Merit Scholarship — 2nd Rank in Branch

Academic Year 2024–25

2025

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Merit Scholarship — 3rd Rank in Branch

Academic Year 2025–26

2026

Intellectual Property

Patents

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System for AI-Driven Threat Detection & Blockchain-Based Evidence Preservation

Application No.: 202641018176

Published March 2026

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A System and Method for Machine Learning-Based FTIR Spectral Denoising

Application No.: 202641053864

Published April 2026

Beyond Code

Extracurriculars

Executive Secretary & Machine Learning Lead

Indian Society for Technology Education (ISTE) — VIT Student Chapter

Mar 2025 – Apr 2026

Maintained chapter records, coordinated with Student Welfare, and supported initiatives organizing numerous workshops and hackathons.
Conducted ML sessions for juniors, mentoring across full project cycles.