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Pragyan Shukla

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Who I Am

Pragyan Shukla

I'm a CS grad from George Mason University (class of 2025), focused on AI, machine learning, and data systems. I spent my college years building things that actually matter: automating 8-hour workflows down to 5 minutes, predicting solar panel output with ML models, and engineering data-observability pipelines at a credit union.

Since graduating, I've been shipping agentic AI projects, personal data tools, and open-source utilities, because the best way to stay sharp is to keep building. When I'm not deep in a dataset or debugging a distributed system, you'll find me at a Cars & Coffee meetup, geeking out over engineering under hoods, or in a specialty coffee shop thinking through my next project.

I'm drawn to roles at the intersection of ML, data engineering, and systems, especially where the work has real-world impact.

RISE Scholar 2024
UTA · CS 110
5 Roles & Internships
GMU CS 2025

Where I've Worked

Aug 2025 – Nov 2025 Systems

Jr. Systems Administrator

Chartway Credit Union · Virginia Beach, VA

  • Automated ServiceNow workflows for outage escalation, CI dependency mapping, and branch network monitoring using Flow Designer.
  • Enhanced CMDB accuracy through dynamic relationship automation, improving service-impact visibility across distributed systems.
  • Built real-time dashboards monitoring software usage and asset health across 400+ devices.
ServiceNow CMDB Distributed Systems Flow Designer
May 2025 – Jul 2025 Data

Data Engineering Intern

Chartway Credit Union · Virginia Beach, VA

  • Engineered a data-observability framework for core-banking and loan platforms using dynamic T-SQL, surfacing historic data-quality events.
  • Authored parameter-driven stored procedures automating multi-hour audits down to a single SQL call.
  • Maintained source control in GitKraken; enforced PR policies in Azure DevOps across two-week Agile/Scrum sprints.
T-SQL SQL Server Azure DevOps Agile
Jan 2024 – Jun 2024 Research

Undergraduate Researcher

George Mason University · College of Science · Fairfax, VA

  • Predicted photovoltaic solar panel output using supervised ML (SVR, Random Forest, Polynomial Regression), achieving a 15% R² improvement over baseline.
  • Evaluated models with MAE, MSE, RMSE, R² and iterated to optimize predictions.
  • Presented findings at the RISE Symposium with a visually compelling poster and full written report.
TensorFlow Scikit-learn Python ML Research
May 2023 – Jul 2023 Dev

Jr. Software Developer Intern

ByteRatio Inc. · Leesburg, VA

  • Built an Excel automation app with Python + AWS, cutting an 8-hour manual process to 5 minutes (a 95% efficiency gain).
  • Leveraged AWS S3, Lambda, SES/SNS for a serverless pipeline; containerized with Docker & Kubernetes.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally to deliver scalable solutions, improving team productivity by 25%.
Python AWS Docker Lambda
Dec 2021 – Jan 2022 Data

Data Science & Business Analyst Intern

The Sparks Foundation · Remote

  • Built data collection and analysis pipelines integrating internal and external datasets for business intelligence.
  • Applied regression and classification ML models in Python & R to extract actionable trends.
Python R Machine Learning

What I've Built

What I Work With

>_ Languages & Frameworks

Python TypeScript Java SQL R Shell / Bash HTML CSS React T-SQL

>_ AI & Machine Learning

TensorFlow PyTorch Scikit-learn Pandas NumPy Matplotlib Seaborn LLM Agents OpenAI API Claude API Cohere API NLP

>_ Cloud & DevOps

AWS S3 AWS Lambda AWS SES/SNS Docker Azure DevOps Azure Data Lake Git GitKraken

>_ Databases & Tools

MongoDB SQL Server ServiceNow Notion API Strava API Jira Confluence SSMS

Things I've Written

Tech Mar 29, 2024

We Didn't Start The Fire

A co-authored piece exploring the rapid acceleration of AI and technology, asking whether humans are steering the flame or just standing next to it.

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Let's Talk

I'm open to new opportunities, interesting projects, and good coffee conversations. Whether it's a job, a collab, or just a question, drop me a line.

prag.shank@gmail.com