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Atharva Pagar

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Passionate about building scalable, beautiful, and intelligent web applications. I love turning ideas into real-world products with clean code and great user experience.

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I'm a Computer Science (AI & ML) undergraduate focused on building practical, production-style AI systems — repository-aware RAG applications, hybrid retrieval pipelines, reinforcement-learning trading agents, and local LLM tooling. Hands-on with Python, PyTorch, Qdrant, and Ollama, with a strong foundation in full-stack engineering using React.js and Next.js.

I'm currently pursuing a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (AI & ML) at VIT Bhopal University, and actively seeking AI Engineer / GenAI Engineer / LLM Engineer internship roles involving RAG systems, applied reinforcement learning, and retrieval evaluation.

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Education
B.Tech CSE (AI/ML) — VIT University
Location
Nashik, Maharashtra
Email
atharvapagar04@gmail.com
Focus
AI / GenAI Engineering

Skills

AI / GenAI

RAG systemsLLM application developmentPrompt engineeringLangChainLlamaIndexOllamaHugging Face Transformers

Reinforcement Learning

PPOActor-Critic architecturesGAEReward shapingPolicy-gradient methods

Deep Learning

PyTorchLSTM / Sequence modelingTime-series feature engineering

Retrieval / Vector Search

QdrantEmbeddingsHybrid search (BM25 + RRF)Semantic searchRetrieval evaluation

Evaluation / Observability

DeepEvalpytestGroundedness & hallucination testing

Model Adaptation

LoRAPEFTLocal LLM inference workflows

Quant / Trading

BacktestingEquity-curve evaluationMulti-asset pipelinesBinance APIOHLCV data processing

Programming / Backend

PythonJavaJavaScript/TypeScriptFastAPIREST APIsSQLitePostgreSQLMongoDB

Frontend / Infra

React.jsNext.jsTailwind CSSGitLinuxDocker

Work Experience

June 2023 – August 2023Nashik, India

IT Support Assistant / Hardware Assistant at Yash Infotech

  • Diagnosed and resolved system, hardware, OS, and basic network issues, strengthening troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
  • Assisted with small-scale network setups and basic configuration during client visits, maintaining equipment and documentation workflows under time constraints.

Projects

RAG + LLM

CodeSeek – Repository-Aware RAG Coding Assistant

A local-first, repository-aware RAG assistant combining Qdrant vector search with in-process BM25 and Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) for hybrid retrieval across codebases. Features a scored intent-classification layer (10 intent families), two-layer source-attribution model, and a retrieval-evaluation harness (DeepEval, pytest) to catch hit errors and false-absence failures.

PythonQdrantRAGOllamaGit
RL + Quant

RL Trading Agent – LSTM/PPO Position-Sizing System

An offline reinforcement-learning trading research system using a shared LSTM actor-critic policy trained with PPO to learn continuous long/short position sizing from crypto market sequences. Includes hourly OHLCV feature pipelines, risk-aware reward components, GAE, walk-forward testing, feature ablation, and exposure-equivalent baseline comparison across BTC, ETH, and SOL.

PythonPyTorchPPOLSTMBinance OHLCV
Trading System

Grid Trading Bot V3

A production-oriented algorithmic trading platform with a governed Python/FastAPI runtime, real-time telemetry, paper-trading engine, recovery-safe persistence, and a comprehensive Next.js operational dashboard.

PythonFastAPINext.jsTypeScriptWebSockets
AI + CV

Virtual Pen – Gesture-Based Drawing Tool

A computer vision application enabling users to draw using hand gestures with real-time hand tracking, color selection, and eraser features.

PythonOpenCVMediaPipeNumPy
AI + Web

EventSnap – AI-Powered Event Photo Finder

Frontend for an AI-powered platform that identifies event photos using facial recognition. Includes photo upload, search flow, and results display.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
Real-Time + Maps

VeggieMap – Hyperlocal Vendor Finder

Real-time platform to discover nearby vegetable vendors (shops & hawkers) with live GPS tracking, geospatial search, vendor dashboard, and favorites — built for mobile vendors sharing live location on an interactive map.

MongoDBExpress.jsReact.jsNode.jsSocket.ioLeafletGeo-indexing

Education

Sep 2023 – PresentBhopal, India

B.Tech – Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML)

VIT Bhopal University

CGPA: 7.73
  • Specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
  • Building full-stack and AI-driven projects to apply classroom learning.
  • Actively participating in hackathons and project-based learning.
May 2023Nashik, India

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

Unnati Secondary and Higher Secondary School

66.50%
  • Completed Higher Secondary education with a focus on Science.
May 2021Nashik, India

Secondary School Certificate (SSC)

Espalier The Experimental School

88.40%
  • Completed Secondary education with distinction.

Certifications

2024

Blockchain Developer

IBM

Learned blockchain fundamentals, smart contracts, Hyperledger Fabric, and decentralized application development.

Let's build something extraordinary.

Whether you have a question, a project idea, or just want to say hi, I'm always open to discussing new opportunities and how we can work together.

Email
atharvapagar04@gmail.com
Phone
+91 9403148744
Location
Nashik, Maharashtra

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