Joshua
Vallabhaneni

Full-Stack Developer & ML Researcher

Hi! I'm Joshua - an inventor, analyst and learner studying CS + Data Science at UMD, College Park. In my free time, you'll probably find me watching a show, cooking something new, or working out!

Joshua Vallabhaneni

Featured Projects

CodeShot: Pixel-Perfect AI Frontend Engineer
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CodeShot: Pixel-Perfect AI Frontend Engineer

Built a system that converts design mockups into production-ready code. Combines CV, RL, and agent-based reasoning to explore code variants and evaluate them via a custom similarity metric. Leveraged NVIDIA H100s on CoreWeave to cut rendering time from 20 -> 5 minutes, outperforming v0 and bolt by 5% in visual similarity.

Feb 2025 - April 2025
PythonOpenCVPyTorch+4 more
QuRE: Query Routing Engine
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QuRE: Query Routing Engine

Built a smart routing system that optimizes LLM API usage for businesses/users. The product analyzes incoming prompts, predicts response complexity and length for different LLM models, and automatically routes queries to the most cost-effective model while maintaining output quality.

June 2024 - Present
PythonJavaScriptReact+3 more
FireSync: AI-Powered Disaster Recovery Platform
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FireSync: AI-Powered Disaster Recovery Platform

Developed a next-generation disaster recovery platform that empowers wildfire-stricken communities to rebuild faster and smarter. FireSync uses AI for intelligent volunteer-task matching, real-time coordination, and impact tracking.

January 2024
ReactNode.jsExpress.js+3 more
Ignite: ML-Driven Nonprofit Matching Engine
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Ignite: ML-Driven Nonprofit Matching Engine

Engineered full-stack web app using React, Flask, MongoDB featuring custom-made automated matching algorithm, Google/LinkedIn API, NLP-based mission alignment scoring, and email automation.

October 2024
PythonJavaScriptReact+2 more
CypressMFA: Gesture-Driven Facial Authentication
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CypressMFA: Gesture-Driven Facial Authentication

Engineered a Chrome extension for 3FA using Python, FastAPI, and MongoDB Atlas, incorporating real-time liveness detection, facial recognition, and dynamic hand gesture recognition.

September 2024 - October 2024
Chrome ExtensionPythonJavaScript+4 more
SkyCast: Flight Delay Predictor
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SkyCast: Flight Delay Predictor

Developed a Flask-based application that harnesses the Open-Meteo API to predict flight delays by analyzing 5 real-time weather metrics. Engineered a RandomForestRegressor model using pandas and scikit-learn.

April 2024 - June 2024
PythonJavaScriptReact+2 more
Drug Efficacy Analysis and Prediction Tool
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Drug Efficacy Analysis and Prediction Tool

Employed JDBC to connect to a MySQL database and utilized SQL queries to analyze the efficacy of the drug Tagrisso. Executed OLS Multiple Linear Regression using Apache Commons Math for model training and predictive analytics.

December 2024 - January 2024
JavaJDBCApache Commons Math+1 more
Vital Smart: IoT based In-Home Health Monitoring System
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Vital Smart: IoT based In-Home Health Monitoring System

Developed a system for measuring multiple vitals, storing results, and displaying them in real-time through a web portal and mobile application. Features a custom-built AI-based advice engine for basic health diagnostics.

June 2021 - August 2023
ArduinoC++Firebase+2 more
Clevr - Peer Tutoring Learning Management System
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Clevr - Peer Tutoring Learning Management System

Created an automated matchmaking software that has efficiently connected over 700 users. Employs algorithmic techniques via Google Apps Script to foster resident learning hubs hands-free.

May 2020 - June 2023
JavaScriptGoogle Apps Script
Baby Saver - Hot Car Alert Device
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Baby Saver - Hot Car Alert Device

Developed a device to prevent hot car child deaths by detecting a baby in a car seat and sending automated alerts when the car's temperature crosses certain thresholds. Features a multi-level alert system.

September 2018 - August 2020
ArduinoC++IoT

Professional Experience

PayPal

PayPal

Software Engineer Intern

San Jose, CA

May 2025 - August 2025

AstraZeneca - Evinova

AstraZeneca
Evinova

Full-Time Junior Software Engineer

Gaithersburg, MD

May 2024 - May 2025

CATS2

CATS2

Human-Computer Interaction Intern

Sunnyvale, CA

May 2024 - August 2024

Proxzar.AI

Proxzar

Software Engineer Intern

East Brunswick, NJ

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

United Safety & Survivability Corporation

United Safety

Engineer Intern

Exton, PA

Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

Skills & Expertise

Programming Languages

PythonJavaCC++RustRJavaScriptHTMLCSS

Backend Development

Node.jsNext.jsExpress.jsFlaskFastAPI

Frontend Development

React.jsViteStorybookTailwindShadcn UI

Database Management

MongoDBAWSMySQLFirebaseSupabase

Data Analysis

pandasNumPySciPymatplotlibTableau

Machine Learning

scikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlownltk

Education & Involvement

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Maryland - College Park

2023 – 2026
Major: Computer Science (ML Track)
Minor: Data Science

Machine Learning Researcher

UMD, Department of Computer Science

April 2025 – Present
  • Developing SuperFoldAE, a supervisedconvolutional autoencoder for protein-fold classification under Prof Alam, reaching 93.92% accuracy
  • Benchmarking representation learning with unsupervised regularizers and reconstruction loss to boost generalization with 88.13% recall).

Product Innovation Engineer

xFoundry@UMD

Jan 2024 - Present
  • 1 of 30 students selected to join a 15-month program to launch a solution backed by $250K to $2M in funding.
  • Developing an AI-enabled detection, tracking, and notification system capable of identifying active shooter events in K-12 schools and colleges in real-time.

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Location
College Park, Maryland