Aaryan Dave

Graduated after 3 years @ Purdue. Grinded through a stretch of LLM research, two part-time engineering jobs, and a competitive dance team + competition board. Worth it.

Python microservices for the agentic-tooling platform Marriott builds on. Drove adoption and standardization of dev tooling across the org. Somehow: ended up 1-on-1 with the CEO talking AI.

This site. Built with ❤️ (and Claude). Redesign 4 of n.

Terminal-first productivity layer over Notion. Custom-synced with every school database I touched. Pre-GPT agents doing fuzzy search and routing. Ran daily for almost four years. Finally sunset in the LLM era.

Tactical Intelligence Systems team. Semantic segmentation with Meta's SAM, real-time web and social scraping for supply-chain analytics. Learned from a genius team of industry experts. Also managed to get secret clearance.

Hand-gesture control for desktop UIs. Sub-second latency, user-trainable gestures, voice integration. Yes, I am Iron Man.

The best course of my degree. Greedy algos, DP, NP-completeness, reductions, computational complexity. The class where I truly learned how to think. Kicked my ass repeatedly, 10/10 would take again.

Admitted into First-Year Engineering, transferred to CS after two semesters. Took 21 credits during competition season to make the switch work. Worth the gauntlet.

CNN + semantic segmentation for buoy detection in messy maritime conditions. Senior research project in the Autonomous Robotics Lab. Great people, great project.

Public STEM magnet in NoVA. Coursework in CS, math, and robotics. 4 years with some of the smartest people I've ever met. Consistently humbled. Loved it.