🎓 Data Science Graduate Student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 💼 Aspiring ML Engineer | AI Engineer | Data Scientist 🌱 Currently building production ML applications and deployment pipelines 🔬 Focused on deploying AI solutions with Streamlit, FastAPI, and cloud platforms 📫 Reach me at pktendulkar@wpi.edu

PDF Extractor 📄
Intelligent PDF-to-JSON converter using GPT-4 Vision API for document parsing. Production-ready Streamlit web app with both CLI and UI interfaces. Optimized for HuggingFace Spaces deployment.

Resume Analyzer & Job Matcher 🎯
AI-powered resume analysis system with BERT, Sentence Transformers, and TF-IDF. Interactive Gradio web UI and FastAPI REST endpoints. Provides compatibility scores, skill alignment, and improvement suggestions.

LeetCode Solutions 🧩
Data structures and algorithms practice with solutions to competitive programming problems.

Water Quality Forecasting 🌊
Environmental ML system forecasting lake turbidity using ensemble methods (XGBoost, CatBoost) and LSTM with attention mechanisms. Real-world application for water quality monitoring.

Facial Expression Recognition 😊
Hybrid CNN-BiLSTM architecture for emotion detection with class imbalance handling. Computer vision application for emotion AI systems.

portfolio = {
    "production_apps": 2,
    "ml_research_projects": 21,
    "focus": "Deployment & Production Engineering",
    "domains": [
        "Production ML Applications",
        "LLM Integration (GPT-4)",
        "NLP & Transformers",
        "Computer Vision & Emotion AI",
        "Environmental Science",
        "Data Structures & Algorithms"
    ],
    "key_skills": {
        "Deployment": ["Streamlit", "Gradio", "FastAPI", "Docker", "HuggingFace"],
        "ML_Frameworks": ["TensorFlow", "PyTorch", "Scikit-learn"],
        "LLM_APIs": ["OpenAI GPT-4 Vision", "BERT", "Transformers"],
        "Deep_Learning": ["CNN", "LSTM", "BiLSTM", "Attention Mechanisms"],
        "Engineering": ["REST APIs", "Web Apps", "Cloud Deployment"]
    },
    "career_goal": "ML Engineer / AI Engineer roles"
}

• 🚀 Production Applications: Deployed web apps with Streamlit, Gradio, and FastAPI
• 🤖 GPT-4 Integration: Built intelligent document parsing system with Vision API
• 🎯 NLP Systems: BERT-powered resume analyzer with semantic similarity matching
• 💻 Algorithmic Skills: Active LeetCode practice for DSA proficiency
• 🔒 Security: 100% security scan pass rate, no exposed credentials
• 📈 Cloud-Ready: Docker containerization, REST APIs, HuggingFace optimization
• 🧪 ML Research: 23 repositories covering diverse ML/DL domains

• pdf-extractor - GPT-4 Vision document parser
• Resume-Comparator - BERT-powered resume analyzer

• Leetcode - DSA practice & competitive programming

• water-quality-forecasting-ml
• environmental-data-projects
• lake-turbidity-forecasting-ensemble
• bangalore-water-quality-ml
• lake-turbidity-analysis
• time-series-regression-xgboost

• facial-expression-recognition-cnn-bilstm
• facial-emotion-recognition-v3
• emotion-detection-deep-learning
• emotion-classification-lstm

• heart-attack-prediction-ml
• human-activity-recognition-lstm
• sensor-data-classification-dl

• nlp-sentiment-analysis

• ml-classification-projects
• web-scraping-projects
• statistical-ml-analysis
• regression-diagnostics-ml
• data-visualization-analysis

• deep-learning-experiments

I'm actively seeking opportunities in ML Engineering, AI Engineering, and Data Science!

• 💼 LinkedIn - Let's connect professionally
• 📧 Email - pktendulkar@wpi.edu
• 🐙 GitHub - Check out my projects
• 📍 Location: Worcester, MA (Open to relocation)

• 🔭 Working on: Building and deploying production ML applications
• 🌱 Learning: MLOps, LLMs, and cloud deployment (Docker, K8s, AWS)
• 👯 Looking to collaborate on: Open-source ML/AI deployment projects
• 💬 Ask me about: ML Engineering, Model Deployment, FastAPI, Production Systems
• 🎯 Goal: Land an ML Engineer or AI Engineer role in 2026