Pratham Shah

Experience

Two internships in 2026, one on AWS and one on Google Cloud, plus freelance client work and a year of brain-computer interface research.

  1. Apr 2026 – Aug 2026

    Internship

    Pune, India

    Searce Inc.

    Associate Cloud Reliability Engineer (Intern)

    FinOps work on Google Cloud: reading billing and utilization data to find waste, and recommending changes that cut cost without hurting performance.

    What I did

    • Analyzed Google Cloud billing data and resource utilization for client workloads to find idle and oversized resources.
    • Prepared rightsizing and cost-optimization recommendations, weighing savings against performance and reliability.
    • Tracked usage trends and cost allocation across GCP projects to support cost governance.

    Stack: Google Cloud, Cloud Billing, FinOps, Rightsizing, Cost allocation

  2. Jan 2026 – Apr 2026

    Internship

    Pune, India

    NeuraMach AI Studios

    AI/ML Full-Stack Engineering Intern (QA focus)

    Full-stack work with a QA focus on the core engineering team of an early-stage AI studio: Next.js and TypeScript frontends wired to FastAPI services.

    What I did

    • Built responsive UIs in Next.js and TypeScript, using server-side rendering and static generation to improve load times and SEO.
    • Integrated FastAPI REST endpoints into the frontend and managed asynchronous data with React Query and Axios.
    • Used AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to speed up development and tighten code reliability, alongside QA work on the product.

    Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, React, React Query, Axios, FastAPI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor

  3. Jul 2025 – Nov 2025

    Freelance

    Remote

    Abhinandan Mountreea

    Frontend Developer (freelance)

    Sole developer on the marketing site for a residential villa project, from client requirements through deployment.

    What I did

    • Built the marketing site for a residential villa project in React, Vite and GSAP, from client requirements to deployment.
    • Served imagery through Cloudinary with WebP conversion, caching and lazy loading to cut page weight on mobile.

    Stack: React, Vite, GSAP, Cloudinary, WebP

    Related: Abhinandan Mountreea

  4. Jul 2024 – May 2025

    Research

    Pune, India

    IS360 Technologies

    Research Developer, BCI NeuroArm

    Worked on the signal-classification side of NeuroArm, a team brain-computer interface project for controlling a prosthetic arm from EEG.

    What I did

    • Worked on an EEG pipeline to preprocess and classify brain signals for arm-movement intent.
    • Trained and compared classifiers (scikit-learn Random Forest, TensorFlow MLP).
    • Helped build a web visualization that walks through the pipeline from EEG to arm command.

    Stack: Python, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, EEG

    Related: NeuroArm