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Anurag Gulavane
Anurag Gulavane

Anurag Gulavane

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish”

Projects

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Vulcan AI, multimodal reasoning agent, 2026

Built a multimodal reasoning agent for the Vulcan OmniPro 220 welder while exploring LLM agents and multimodal AI as part of an interview challenge. Full Github here.

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Aria, calendar with AI voice support, 2025

Deployed a Calendar with an AI voice assistant (OpenAI function calling + Web Speech API)

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iOS Countdown Widget, easy peasy, 2025

Developed a dynamic countdown widget in JavaScript featuring a dot grid visualization of days elapsed and remaining toward user-defined events, with configurable options for event naming, date ranges, optimized for mobile display through responsive sizing and spacing. Full Github here.

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Insight Guard, multiple ML classifiers, 2024

This project focuses on predicting suicidal tendencies using various machine learning models and a custom deep learning model. It leverages advanced classification techniques to analyze text data and identify patterns associated with suicidal intent. Full Github here.

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AniMatch, full-stack anime recommender, 2024

Built a full-stack anime recommendation website powered by custom SQL queries to surface personalized suggestions based on user preferences, ratings, and viewing history.

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Gophish Phishing Simulator, understanding phishing attacks, 2024

Implementation of a phishing simulator using GoPhish, an open-source phishing framework. Full Github here.

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Foundry, image recognition & data scraping/retrieval, 2023

Implemented an image-based lost-and-found system using ML Kit object detection for automatic tagging and a VGG16 embedding retrieval pipeline with cosine similarity, achieving up to 0.7 precision, recall, and F1-score on CIFAR-based evaluations with datasets of up to 1000 images.

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Blockchain Banking, decentralized banking framework, 2022-2023

Co-authored and published a research paper proposing a decentralized online banking framework that combines blockchain with multi-factor authentication and a proof-by-approval consensus protocol for secure, tamper-proof transactions in the public cloud. Read paper here.

Experience

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Software Engineer, Humanitarians AI, 2025- Present
  • Shipped 3 core features informed by recurring support cases: booking validation, payment failure recovery, and live trip tracking, reducing system errors by ~20% and lowering user-reported issues.
  • Reformed software development workflow based on three principles: planning, asynchronous work, and focus.
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Game Development Intern, Strall, 2022-2023
  • Single handedly developed 5+ character movement mechanics and interactive environments for a Fortnite inspired no-build prototype, enabling the prototype to be play-tested by 100 users.
  • Significantly exceeded timeline expectations and used extra time to meet executives and build hack-a-thon projects.

Education

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute,M.S. in Computer Science,2023-2025
  • Took a wide variety of courses from algorithms to cryptography, audited courses regarding philosophy and Japanese language.
  • Captain of the WPI’s Badminton Club
  • Active member of the WPI Photography Club and WPI Chess Club
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Bharati Vidyapeeth University,B.Tech. in Computer Science and Business Studies,2019-2023
  • Had the liberty to take variety of courses from physics to business administration, environmental studies, philosophy, machine learning.
  • Published a research paper on a custom blockchain framework for secure online banking, implementing SHA-256 hashing, a peer consensus algorithm, and multi-factor authentication.

Blog posts

my everyday carry 2026
February 25, 2026
NEW
why I’m still using an iPod in 2025
December 20, 2025
PRODUCTIVITY
countdown widget
July 1, 2025
how this one habit changed my productivity
June 4, 2025
PRODUCTIVITY
a new chapter
May 20, 2025
NEW
lost art
April 24, 2025
IDEAS
life of peace or life of achievement?
March 2, 2025
IDEAS
your circle defines you
October 14, 2024
IDEAS
the circle of life
October 4, 2024
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