Upamanyu (Upi) Shanker
CS & Finance at Florida State · Software Engineer Intern at FSU ITS · CTO at Campus Sublet
- Software Engineer Intern @ FSU Information Technology Services
- Research Assistant @ FSU
- Chief Technology Officer @ Campus Sublet
About
I'm a dual Computer Science and Finance major at Florida State, minoring in math. Right now I build internal Java apps for FSU IT Services and run engineering at Campus Sublet, a student sublet marketplace with 150+ users. Before that I trained a model at St. Jude that turns plain-language questions into clinical dashboards. On my own time I build things that are fun to take apart: a reinforcement-learning blackjack agent, a stat search over every NBA game, and a movie search that understands vibes.
Education
Florida State University — Dual Degree B.S. Computer Science and Finance, Minor in Mathematics (Expected May 2028)
Honors & Awards
- National Merit Finalist
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Vires Scholarship
- Dean's List
Relevant Coursework
Core Computer Science
- Data Structures, Algorithms & Programming I COP3330
- Data Structures II COP4530
- Theory of Computation COT4420
- Computer Organization I CDA3100
- Database Systems COP4710
- Advanced Programming with Java COP3252
- Pattern Recognition CIS4930
- Ethics in Computer Science CIS3250
- Introduction to Programming COP3363
- Deep and Reinforcement Learning Fundamentals CAP5619
- Operating Systems COP4610
Math & Quantitative
- Discrete Mathematics I & II MAD2104, MAD3105
- Applied Statistics for Engineers & Scientists STA3032
- Calculus II MAC2312
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Experience
Florida State University Information Technology Services
Software Engineer Intern · Aug 2025 – Present
- Built a searchable Java (GWT) directory linking every FSU-owned internet domain to its security contact, giving the IT security team one lookup point during incidents instead of manual searches and slashing response times.
- Building a check-in and appointment scheduling system for 3 university departments, replacing scattered scheduling with a single shared queue used by front-desk staff and visitors.
- Partnered with stakeholders across departments to take both apps from requirements to deployment, cutting manual processing time by 57%.
Campus Sublet
Chief Technology Officer · Mar 2026 – Present
- Launched a mobile sublet marketplace for FSU students, scaling to 150+ users on React Native/Expo + Supabase.
- Built real-time messaging, push notifications, and email-verified auth across iOS and Android.
- Designed the end-to-end data architecture: 5+ tables with row-level security for listings, chats, and photos.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
AI Engineer Intern · Jun 2025 – Jul 2026
- Delivered clinical reports built from Epic patient records for clinical teams, standardizing hundreds of healthcare metric definitions so reports drew on consistent, validated numbers.
- Trained a custom AI model that turns natural-language prompts into dashboards for clinical teams, cutting reporting time by 43%.
- Automated reporting over patient and operational data in Python and SQL, replacing manual spreadsheet pulls.
Florida State University
Research Assistant · Oct 2024 – Present
- Developed a Python script to categorize duplicate titles in a SQLite database, reducing manual data entry by 75% and automating CSV report generation.
- Created a SQLite database using NLP and TF-IDF vectorization to automatically analyze and score academic papers, and deployed a Flask web application that queries the database.
Earlier experience (+6)
Johnson & Johnson
Technology Awareness Program · Jan 2026 – Mar 2026
- Built MedConnect, a telehealth-access platform that addresses two problems for rural patients: finding in-network care and repeating their medical history at every visit.
- Included insurance-based doctor search, booking, reminders, and a referral system between doctors.
Commerce Hive LLC
Software Engineer Intern · Feb 2025 – Jun 2025
- Developed modular and accessible front-end components using TypeScript and Next.js, enhancing user workflows.
- Integrated RESTful API endpoints to fetch and update inventory data, implementing robust error handling.
- Optimized front-end performance, reducing initial page load time by 52% through dynamic imports, image optimization, and caching strategies.
The DeVoe L. Moore Center
Data Analytics Intern · Jan 2025 – May 2025
- Created Tableau data visualizations for floridaopengov.org and other Center projects.
- Collected and cleaned data from a variety of local and state agencies.
- Conducted market-focused research and supported ongoing transparency projects.
Outlier / Alignerr
AI Trainer · Oct 2024 – May 2025
- Improved AI performance and accuracy by designing effective prompts and refining LLM responses, ensuring alignment with user needs and project goals.
- Annotated and labeled video datasets to train and enhance AI model performance, ensuring high-quality data for accurate training and validation.
- Developed and optimized code implementing machine learning models, conducting rigorous evaluation to identify biases and improve performance.
Voxel Labs, LLC
Front-End Web Developer · Feb 2025 – May 2025
- Designed and developed a responsive website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, ensuring seamless navigation across devices.
- Integrated interactive elements such as form validation and real-time updates, enhancing functionality and user experience.
- Deployed and secured the site on AWS: S3 hosting, Route 53 DNS, CloudFront CDN, ACM SSL, and API Gateway + Lambda for backend functionality.
Beats by Dre
Data Analytics Extern · Nov 2024 – Feb 2025
- Developed and automated data pipelines for gathering, cleaning, and analyzing large consumer datasets using Python.
- Conducted exploratory and sentiment analysis on customer reviews with pandas and NumPy to uncover actionable insights.
- Created data-driven presentations and interactive dashboards communicating complex insights to stakeholders.
Leadership
Management Leadership for Tomorrow
Career Prep Fellow · Jan 2026 – Present
- Selected for a competitive 18-month leadership development program with structured coaching and mentorship.
Asian American Student Union
Programming Coordinator · Jun 2026 – Present
Lambda Phi Epsilon
Webmaster & Events Chair · Jun 2026 – Present
- Coordinate chapter events and maintain the fraternity website, driving member turnout.
CompNeuroSociety at FSU
Vice President & Webmaster · May 2025 – May 2026
- Oversaw society operations and strategic planning as Vice President, coordinating meetings and events.
- Designed, developed, and maintained the organization's website, integrating 3D visualizations and interactivity.
- Optimized the site for accessibility and mobile compatibility.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at FSU
Webmaster · Aug 2025 – May 2026
- Led management and continuous improvement of ACM at FSU's WordPress site — content, plugins, and security — for 1000+ student members.
- Collaborated with the executive board to translate organizational needs into web solutions, increasing event visibility and member engagement.
FSU Association of IT Professionals (AITP)
Outreach Chair · Aug 2025 – May 2026
- Organized and represented AITP at campus outreach events, driving interest in professional development within IT.
- Strengthened alumni-student connections by coordinating an alumni interview segment and streamlining event RSVPs.
Projects
Seven I’d be happy to walk through line by line, and the rest below.
Blackjack AI
C++17 blackjack engine with Q-Learning and Monte Carlo agents trained over 2M episodes, playing within ~0.01 units per hand of optimal basic strategy after diagnosing and fixing reward-shaping and learning-rate defects worth ~40% of expected value. Compiles to WebAssembly via Emscripten, so the interactive demo runs entirely in the browser with no backend.
Marquee
Search movies the way you'd describe them to a friend — "feel-good heist", "90s horror", "rating>8.5 war". A hand-written parser applies exact filters in code, while TypeSafe's Jev decision model judges the IMDb top 1,000 against the rest of the query in 11 parallel batches (~0.9 s, ~1¢ per uncached search), tuned on a custom eval harness to 92% precision and 99% recall. Matches rise out of a 60 fps matter-js poster pile onto a ranked shelf, with an accessible grid view and where-to-watch data for 997 of the 1,000 films.
Statline
Search every NBA player-game in league history by stat range ("20–30 pts, 10–15 ast, 5–10 reb"), with results ranked by closeness to the requested ranges through a dynamically generated SQL expression. SQLite database ingested from stats.nba.com, served read-only behind a Next.js API route and deployed as a Docker image with a persistent volume.
Cargo Search
Microservice freight-search platform: Spring Boot shipment and carrier services backed by PostgreSQL, a real-time indexing pipeline over Kafka, and an ElasticSearch query layer. Batch analytics and reindexing run on Apache Spark, with every service isolated in its own Docker container.
Shuttle
Moves files and text between your laptop and phone — scan a QR code once, then push either direction. Browsers upload straight to Cloudflare R2 through presigned URLs and access runs on stateless HMAC-signed tokens, so bytes never touch the server and there is no database at all.
GradeHub
Full-stack grade database with a Next.js frontend and Spring Boot backend over PostgreSQL. Computes GPA and predicts the grades needed to hit a target, with two-factor auth, Google OAuth, and per-student data persistence.
FSU Crime Map
Daily-updated interactive map of FSU police crime-log incidents. A Python pipeline scrapes, deduplicates, and geocodes FSU PD's rolling 60-day log into a growing historical dataset, published as a static Leaflet site with filters, search, a sortable table, and stats. Refreshed automatically by GitHub Actions — no server, no API keys.
Also built (+6)
- Clash Royale Stats Tracker · Next.js, Express.js, TypeScript, Tailwind
React/Next.js frontend with a Node/Express backend that fetches and visualizes player profiles, achievements, badges, and battle logs from the official API.Live demo →Source available on request - Real Estate MLS · SQL, PHP, MariaDB
MySQL-backed PHP application to search, view, and query property listings, with a complete relational schema and dynamic pages. Built for a Database Systems course. - YT → Tagged MP3 · TypeScript, Python
Converts YouTube videos into MP3s with proper ID3 tags and cover art. - Outlook–Google Calendar Sync · Python, Microsoft Graph API, Google Calendar API, SQLite
One-way syncs multiple Outlook calendars to Google Calendar, handling recurring events, color coding, and duplicate prevention via a SQLite tracking database.Source available on request - NLP Paper Scoping Tool · Python, NLP, SQLite, Flask
TF-IDF and SQLite pipeline with a Flask UI to score and filter academic papers, with automated duplicate detection. Built for FSU research.Source available on request - FloridaOpenGov Visualizations · Tableau, Data Visualization
Interactive Tableau visualizations of Florida economic, school, and housing data for transparency projects.Source available on request