USHA
SOPHEA
JANARDHAN

SWE · ML/AI · PM
UofT CS Specialist · Math Minor · Helsinki Exchange
I ship. I iterate. I overthink the UI.

I build things to understand them.

Hey, I'm Usha. I'm a Computer Science Specialist and Math minor at UofT. I recently wrapped up an exchange semester at the University of Helsinki and am currently building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and full-stack engineering. I'm seeking SWE and PM roles for Summer 2026.

→ UofT CS Specialist, Math Minor → UofT International Scholar · Principal's Entrance Awardee → GDG UTM Co-President 2025 · UTM Robotics VP Finance 2025 → Currently seeking SWE/PM roles Summer 2026
Usha Sophea Janardhan

Selected Work

Socrato AI Teaching Assistant
01

Socrato AI Teaching Assistant

FastAPI REST service integrating Gemini LLM to auto-generate summaries, quizzes, and structured Q&A flashcards. Interactive flashcard UI with flip animations, difficulty rating, and gamified spaced-repetition. Under CSC492 Capstone Project - research paper (maybe) loading!

Python FastAPI Gemini LLM Next.js Pydantic
SpendWise — UofT CSC301
02

SpendWise — UofT CSC301

PM & Full-Stack Engineer for a 7-person agile team building a scholarship management platform. Led sprint planning and normalized the PostgreSQL scholarship data model in Django. Built a web scraping pipeline aggregating 4,300+ scholarships from public sources.

React Django PostgreSQL Docker AWS
Portfolio Optimization Tool
03

Portfolio Optimization Tool

Full-stack portfolio optimizer with FastAPI backend featuring Sharpe-based ranking and mean-variance convex optimization via cvxpy. React frontend with live API integration, efficient frontier curve visualization, and sector allocation breakdown. Trying to get this hosted on AWS in my spare time!

Python FastAPI cvxpy React REST API
ourPATHS RAG Dashboard
04

ourPATHS RAG Dashboard

AI-powered market-access dashboard. Scraped 800+ HTA documents on Niagara supercomputer, 10K+ embeddings stored in Azure Blob. Agentic RAG pipeline with GPT-4-mini for intelligent document retrieval across pharmaceutical knowledge bases. May–Sep 2025, under CSC392 Real World AI/ML Solutions, with pharmaceutical partner as Sanofi and input from Pfizer, Takeda.

Azure OpenAI GPT-4 RAG Python

Experience

Where I've been

Full-Stack Engineer

SPENDWISE · UOFT CSC301 Jan 2026 — Apr 2026

Led sprint planning and road mapping for a 7-person cross-functional team. Implemented a normalized PostgreSQL scholarship data model in Django with UUID primary keys. Built an end-to-end web scraping pipeline targeting 4,300+ scholarships.

LLM Engineer

OURPATHS · UOFT REAL WORLD AI/ML May — Sep 2025

Designed and built an end-to-end AI-powered market-access dashboard in a 5-member team. Scraped and processed 800+ HTA documents on the Niagara supercomputer, generating 10K+ embeddings. Engineered an agentic RAG pipeline with intent classification and GPT-4-mini.

Software Engineer Intern

PARKUSHER · MONTREAL, QC Jun — Aug 2025

Resolved customer profile UX pain points by designing tailored Premium and Free user flows informed by benchmarking 4 competitors. Deployed a React-based front end to 22K+ users through Agile sprints. Led backend handoff across 6 design-dev iterations, reducing delivery cycle time by 20%.

Exchange Semester

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI Fall 2024 INTL EXCHANGE

Selected for competitive exchange semester in Helsinki, Finland. Studied Masters-level courses in Computer Vision, Networking Technologies, AI, Graph Algorithms and more. Immersed in one of Europe's most innovative tech ecosystems.

“The best way to understand systems is to see them built differently.”

LEADERSHIP

Co-President

UTM GOOGLE DEVELOPER GROUP Aug 2024 — Aug 2025

Led 20 executives to deliver 12+ technical workshops and networking events for 200+ students. Secured $14K+ sponsorships, partnering with Microsoft Reactor for a 500-attendee Women in Tech Conference.

Vice President of Finance

UTM ROBOTICS May 2024 — May 2025

Boosted club funding by 178% through grant proposals. Co-organized UTM's first hardware hackathon for 60+ student teams by budget restructuring and sponsorships.

Tech Stack

spec sheet
LANGUAGES
Python C Java JavaScript SQL R
BACKEND
Django FastAPI Node.js
AI / ML
LLM/RAG TensorFlow OpenCV NumPy/Pandas
TOOLS & PLATFORMS
Azure AWS Docker Git PostgreSQL Niagara HPC Jira Figma
FRONTEND
React Next.js Tailwind
SYSTEMS
OS Internals Concurrency Memory Mgmt