Portfolio / 2026

ML · Software · Product

PraveenaChenthooran

Putting ideas into motion,from intuition to execution.

Systems Design Engineering @ UWaterloo

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01 / Experience route

Where the work
has taken me.

  1. 01

    Route stop

    Knowledgehook

    Software Engineer Intern

    Built LLM-powered learning insight workflows around educational performance data, processing pipelines, and backend reliability.

    Workflows supporting 150+ educators

    • LLM workflows
    • Data processing
    • Recommendation pipelines
    • Backend systems
  2. 02

    Route stop

    Future Cities Institute

    Software Engineer Intern

    Built and deployed a RAG-based grant proposal system that turns planning documents and public data into policy-aligned funding recommendations. Combined hybrid search with source validation and explainability to flag unsupported or low-confidence outputs.

    Used across 25+ municipalities · Led 2 engineering sprints

    • RAG
    • Hybrid search
    • OpenAI embeddings
    • Source validation
  3. 03

    Route stop

    Bits In Glass

    Machine Learning Engineer Intern

    Developing agent workflows that combine LLM reasoning, tool execution, and external data to automate multi-step business processes. Building Python data and ML pipelines on Databricks and AWS, with modular orchestration for traceable, testable client implementations.

    • Agent workflows
    • Python
    • Databricks
    • AWS

02 / Selected work

Putting ideas
into Motion

Focused systems across student workflows, civic planning, health navigation, campus coordination, AI operations, and data infrastructure.

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03 / Capabilities

What I can
make happen.

Tools matter most in the context of what they make possible.

Ship useful interfaces and full-stack products.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • FastAPI
  • REST APIs
  • Python
  • SQL
  • C/C++