Open to full-time software engineering roles starting summer 2027

Skilled Software Developer & Computer Enthusiast

Akash Pandya

Three-time DTCC intern building production software for capital markets infrastructure, with experience across security remediation, AI retrieval pipelines, frontend delivery, and data-driven automation.

University of Maryland ’27 • B.S. Computer Science • Economics Minor

Degree

B.S. Computer Science

Minor

Economics

GPA

3.5 / 4.0

Akash Pandya

Current Focus

Building reliable software for high-stakes systems, with a strong interest in fintech platforms, workflow automation, and polished user experiences.

About Me

I'm a CS major with an Economics minor who genuinely cares about how financial systems work — not just how to code around them. I'm drawn to the challenge of introducing emerging technology into an industry where the cost of failure is real. Whether it's designing cleaner data pipelines, building more testable UIs, or thinking through how AI fits responsibly into capital markets, I want to be the engineer who bridges both worlds.

Experience

Information Technology Intern

Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Jersey City, New Jersey | June – August 2024, 2025, 2026

Summer 2026

  • Remediated 11 SQL injection vulnerabilities across 10 production components and 3 core data services using PostgreSQL and DBeaver, executing 40+ live database tests and resolving 3 additional critical functional regressions.
  • Built a production Trade Information Warehouse (TIW) retrieval pipeline, indexing hundreds of settlement documents for vector-based semantic search with typical chatbot responses under 1 minute.

Summer 2025

  • Supported migration of legacy Funds Only Settlement web components into DTCC's Real-Time Trade Matching application, improving application reliability and maintainability.
  • Shipped 8+ Angular UI components and Java/Spring Boot REST APIs while maintaining 90% unit test coverage and resolving Jenkins CI/CD build failures.

Summer 2024

  • Automated KPI test-result aggregation using SPL, eliminating 2+ hours of manual reporting per week and enabling more frequent performance monitoring.
  • Streamlined Global Trade Repository alert analysis using SPL, reducing alert response time by 30% and generating automated daily reports for the Alerts Team.

Spring Research Intern

OpenData

Remote, New Jersey | February 2024 – June 2024

  • Evaluated free and commercial data sources for an AI-driven data marketplace platform to inform integration strategy.
  • Explored machine learning approaches for automated data quality assessment using metadata coverage, freshness, and uniqueness signals.
  • Analyzed 10+ data marketplaces across pricing models, product capabilities, and AI features to prioritize roadmap direction.
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Agentic AI Trading Platform

Developed a 17-agent investment research system spanning fundamental, technical, macro, risk, and portfolio workflows to evaluate cross-market opportunities and generate trade recommendations.

OpenClaw, Multi-Agent Systems, Python, Flask • May 2026 – Present

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Spotify User Data Pipeline

Built an end-to-end data science pipeline across Spotify's top 100 artists, engineering trend-rate and listener-gap features and training a sequential neural network that achieved 93.7% test accuracy in identifying artists with high growth potential.

Python, NumPy, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow • Mar – May 2026

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AI in Higher Education

Contributed to a systematic research synthesis on generative AI in higher education, helping narrow 398 initial sources to 47 final studies and analyzing student learning outcomes across critical thinking, writing, and metacognition.

Research Synthesis, Python, Google Forms, Mendeley • Jan – May 2026

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PandyaBot

Designed and shipped PandyaBot for this portfolio with a floating chat UI, portfolio-aware prompting, and a secure server API route for AI responses.

Next.js, TypeScript, OpenAI API, UX Engineering • 2026

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Python Instruction Curriculum

Built and delivered a Python curriculum across six sessions through a public library partnership, helping over 50 students progress into advanced CS coursework.

Python, Curriculum Design, Instruction • Feb 2022 – Jun 2023

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Forensic Tester Application

Led development of a forensic analysis web application later acquired by Data Unlimited International, with 100+ samples processed via internal comparison workflows.

Web Engineering, Data Processing • Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Technical Skills

Languages

JavaPythonC++CSQLJavaScriptBashRHTMLCSS

Frameworks & Libraries

Spring BootAngularTensorFlowScikit-learnPandasPostgreSQLNumPyMatplotlib

Developer Tools

GitGitHubJenkinsMavenDBeaverSonarQubeJiraIntelliJ IDEAVS CodeKiroAmazon Bedrock

Resume

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Let's Build

Open to software engineering roles where speed, reliability, and product quality matter.