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Stuti Pandya

Stuti
Pandya

Backend & infrastructure engineer, with full-stack range.

Software developer intern at TrendAI (Trend Micro), shipping Go APIs, React UIs, and Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS. Finishing Computer Engineering at uOttawa in December 2026.

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January 2027, new grad
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Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, Vancouver, or remote in Canada
Status
Legally able to work in Canada full time
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  1. 0000p0 · nrcan · 2024Cut Oracle SQL report runtime 30% with restructured joins and indexed viewspending
  2. 0001p1 · uottawa · 2024–25Dean's Honor List, twicepending
  3. 0002p2 · bridge · 2025ASL glove streaming flex-sensor readings to the browser over BLEpending
  4. 0003p1 · ieee-wie · 2025Organized a hackathon for 100+ participantspending
  5. 0004p0 · solace · 2025Reproduced event-broker defects with R&D and shipped validated fixespending
  6. 0005p2 · ledger · 2026Exactly-once balance effects under Kafka redelivery, proven by 31 testspending
  7. 0006p2 · tinted · 20267-stage vision pipeline streamed over SSE, covered by 146 testspending
  8. 0007p2 · rag-agent · 2026Eval harness lifted mean score from 0.641 to 0.831 over nine ablationspending
  9. 0008p0 · trendai · 2026Recovered $6–9K/month in AWS spend by tracing a 1.4B-call spike to 55 orphaned stackspending
  10. 0009p0 · trendai · 2026Cleared 81 CVEs across four service imagespending
  11. 0010p0 · trendai · 2026Shipped a package-license feature on a DuckDB-backed Go API and React UIpending
  12. 0011p1 · ieee-wie · 2026Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering, uOttawa, for 2026–27pending
  13. 0012New-grad software engineer, starting January 2027offer

Transaction Ledger Service

An event-driven ledger that never loses or double-applies a transaction, even when it crashes mid-write.

2026 · Java 21 / Spring Boot / Kafka / PostgreSQL / Next.js / Prometheus / Grafana

Decisions that carry it

  • Partition Kafka by account ID

    Instead of one global ordering key

  • Manual offset acknowledgement

    Instead of auto-commit

  • Backoff retries (1s/2s/4s), then a dead-letter topic that preserves the partition, with an admin replay endpoint

    Instead of infinite retry or drop-on-failure

  • ErrorHandlingDeserializer wrapping the JSON deserializer

    Instead of letting deserialization throw

Read the case study Source

Crash the consumer mid-write

Kafka guarantees at-least-once delivery, so a crash means the message comes back. The ledger guarantees each transaction lands exactly once. Arm a crash, send transactions, and watch the redelivered one get skipped instead of double-applied.

A simplified model running in your browser, not the live service. It reproduces the behaviour asserted by redeliveredEvent_isAppliedExactlyOnce, a real Testcontainers test that republishes the same event twice against Postgres and Kafka and asserts the balance never moves.

  • Partition 0 · ACC-1$325

    001003

  • Partition 1 · ACC-2$520

    002004

  1. 0000Producer sent 4 transactions, partitioned by account id
  2. 0001txn-001 applied, offset committed
  3. 0002txn-002 applied, offset committed
  4. 0003txn-003 applied, offset committed
  5. 0004txn-004 applied, offset committed

Balances match the ledger: $845

The sum of balances always equals the sum of writes that reached the ledger, however many times a message is redelivered.

More projects

Each one has a full case study: the problem, the trade-offs, the evidence, and what I'd change.

  1. 2026

    traced-research-agent

    A RAG research agent with the part most demos skip: an eval harness that proves it works.

    Python / LangGraph / FastAPI / Chroma / BM25 / RRF / Groq

    Case study
  2. 2026

    Tinted

    Computer vision that gets skin tone right across the full range, then recommends makeup that actually matches.

    FastAPI / React 19 / Next.js / MediaPipe / OpenCV / CLIP / Claude Haiku

    Case study
  3. 2025–2026

    Bridge

    An ASL translation glove: flex sensors on an ESP32, streaming straight to the browser over Bluetooth.

    Arduino Nano ESP32 / BLE / React Native / Web Bluetooth

    Case study

Also built

  • Cycling Community App

    Android app for forming riding groups. Deployed and used by a local riding community.

    Java / Firebase / Android

  • Continuity Copilot

    AI pre-visit briefings for family doctors. 2nd place, Hackers & Healers hackathon.

    LangGraph / GPT-4o / HAPI FHIR / React

  • Aerial Image Segmentation

    UNet trained from scratch to spot houses in aerial photos, with CI/CD shipping Docker images.

    PyTorch / Flask / Docker / GitHub Actions

Experience

Three internships across four terms, newest first.

  1. May 2026 – Present

    Ottawa

    TrendAI (Trend Micro)

    Software Developer Intern, AI Security & Container Security

    • Recovered $6–9K/month in AWS spend by tracing a 1.4B-call API Gateway spike to 55 orphaned CloudFormation stacks.
    • Shipped a package-license feature across 2 public REST endpoints on a DuckDB-backed Go API and the React inventory UI.
    • Cleared 81 distinct CVEs across four service images by bumping Go stdlib, OpenSSL/libcrypto, and x/crypto.

    Go / React / DuckDB / Kubernetes / EKS / Helm / AWS / GitHub Actions

  2. Sept 2025 – Dec 2025

    Ottawa

    Solace

    Support Engineer Intern

    • Reproduced event broker defects and partnered with R&D to validate and ship fixes.
    • Debugged distributed messaging across hybrid cloud; wrote postmortems tracing root causes through broker and client layers.

    MQTT / AMQP / JMS / REST / WebSocket / Kubernetes

  3. May 2024 – Aug 2025

    Ottawa

    Natural Resources Canada

    Software Developer Intern, 2 co-op terms

    • Optimized Oracle SQL queries and dashboards to run 30% faster, via join restructuring and indexed views.
    • Built a C# bulk import tool and automated Salesforce sandbox refresh with Apex and PowerShell.

    Salesforce / Apex / C# / Oracle SQL / PowerShell

Skills

Depth, not percentage bars. Built: I designed and shipped it. Used: I work in it regularly.

Languages

  • JavaBuilt

    Java 21 ledger service, coursework

  • PythonUsed

    traced-research-agent, Tinted

  • GoUsed

    DuckDB-backed REST API at TrendAI

Backend & Streaming

  • Spring BootBuilt

    Ledger service: Data JPA, Kafka, Actuator

  • KafkaBuilt

    Partitioning, manual offsets, DLT, retries

  • FastAPIBuilt

    traced-research-agent, Tinted

Frontend

  • React / Next.jsBuilt

    TrendAI inventory UI, ledger dashboard, Tinted

  • TailwindBuilt

    This site, Tinted

Data

  • PostgreSQLUsed

    Flyway migrations, optimistic locking

  • Oracle SQLUsed

    Join restructuring, indexed views: 30% faster

  • DuckDBUsed

    Embedded OLAP behind a Go API at TrendAI

Cloud & DevOps

  • Kubernetes / EKSUsed

    Resource limits for two operators at TrendAI

  • AWSUsed

    API Gateway, CloudFormation, EKS at TrendAI

  • Docker ComposeBuilt

    Postgres, Kafka KRaft, Prometheus, Grafana

AI & ML

  • LLM evaluationBuilt

    LLM-as-judge, golden sets, ablation

  • LangGraphBuilt

    Multi-step research agent, Continuity Copilot

  • PyTorchBuilt

    UNet trained from scratch, IoU/Dice reporting

Tools

  • Claude CodeUsed

    Daily driver for build and review

  • Git / GitHub ActionsBuilt

    Multi-job CI with test gates

  • GroqUsed

    llama-3.3-70b for agent and judge

Testing & Observability

  • TestcontainersBuilt

    Real Postgres + Kafka in integration tests

  • AwaitilityBuilt

    Async assertions without sleeps

  • pytestBuilt

    146-test Tinted suite

About

Three internships so far: AI and container security at TrendAI (Go, Kubernetes, AWS), event brokers at Solace, and two co-op terms at Natural Resources Canada.

I work across the stack, but I like the unglamorous end of it: message ordering, failure recovery, observability. My flagship project is an event-driven transaction ledger with 31 tests proving ordering holds even when things crash, fronted by a Next.js dashboard that streams status live.

On the AI side, I build the measurement around LLM systems, not just demos. My research agent ships with its own eval harness: 8 rubric-scored questions, an LLM judge, and nine recorded ablations that took mean score from 0.641 to 0.831.

Off the clock, I chair uOttawa's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering chapter.

Portrait of Stuti Pandya
  • Kayaks tied up at a lake dock
    off-grid
  • Canoes on Moraine Lake in the Rockies
    banff
  • Sunset over the Rideau Canal locks in Ottawa
    home
  • Watching flamingos at the park
    touching grass

School & community

Grad December 2026

CGPA 8.13/10.0

University of Ottawa

Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering

Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship stream

Systems
Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture, Real-Time Systems
AI / ML
Applied Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Sept 2024 – Present

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa

Chair (2026–27) · previously Vice Chair (2025–26)

  • Launched WIEee Code, our first beginner hackathon, and built the starter template teams worked from.
  • Built a mentorship program pairing upper-years with first- and second-years.
  • Organized a hackathon for 100+ participants and led technical workshops on Git, React, and Docker.
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa event, photo 1
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa event, photo 2
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa event, photo 3

Recognition

  • 2nd place, Hackers & Healers AI in Healthcare hackathon

    Continuity Copilot: agentic clinical briefing on FHIR data

    2026

  • Dean's Honor List ×2

    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Engineering

    2024–2025

  • WIEee Code: founded the chapter's first beginner hackathon

    Including the starter template teams built from

    2025

Hiring for January 2027?

I'm interviewing for new-grad backend, infrastructure, and full-stack roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.

stuti.pandya0@gmail.com
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