Bhavana Anand

M.S. Computer Science · UMass Amherst · 2027

Full-stack engineer who loves building things and learning something new along the way.

Pixel-art Bhavana coding on her laptop

RaftStream (opens in a new tab)

Distributed video processing

Video-processing workers coordinated through Raft consensus, with jobs queued on RabbitMQ and output kept in MinIO object storage. Most of the work went into the unhappy path: leader election, recovery, and keeping processing observable while a node is down.

Go · Raft · RabbitMQ · MinIO · FastAPI · React · Docker

AlgoJudge (opens in a new tab)

Coding judge with model feedback

Runs submitted code in isolated sandboxes, then goes past pass/fail with complexity analysis and optimization feedback from a language model.

Next.js · FastAPI · Docker · PostgreSQL · AWS · Phi-4

WebGPU ML Bench (opens in a new tab)

ML benchmarks in the browser

Hand-written WGSL kernels for machine-learning operations such as matrix multiplication and softmax, benchmarked on whatever GPU the browser has access to.

WebGPU · WGSL · TypeScript · React · Vite

Pixel-art Bhavana presenting a distributed systems diagram
  1. May 2026 — Aug 2026

    Applied Science Intern, Microsoft

  2. Mar 2025 — Aug 2025

    Software Engineer Intern, Fanpit

    Built reservation and marketplace systems used across 10+ brands, with high-concurrency booking flows in Next.js, NestJS, and MongoDB.

  3. Oct 2024 — Jan 2025

    Data Engineer Intern, DataBahn.ai

    Reworked regex-heavy network-log parsing as an LLM chunking prototype, then validated accuracy and latency against analyst workflows.

  4. Jun 2024 — Jul 2024

    Multimodal Machine Learning Intern, Carnegie Mellon University · S3D

    Built a Wasserstein GAN that synthesized 12-lead ECG signals from 2-lead KardiaMobile data with 95% similarity. Advised by Dr. Naveena Yanamala and Dr. Raj Reddy.

  5. Jul 2023 — Aug 2023

    IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Science · IACV Lab

    Improved cross-domain few-shot learning accuracy by 2% on fine-grained datasets using prompt-based contextual learning with CLIP. Advised by Dr. Soma Biswas.

Pixel-art Bhavana carrying a stack of books
  1. 2025 — 2027 (expected)

    M.S. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  2. 2021 — 2025

    B.E. Computer Science, SSN College of Engineering · Anna University

  • Generation Google Scholarship, APAC 2024 — one of 142 recipients
  • Grace Hopper Celebration India, Advancing Inclusion Scholar
Pixel-art Bhavana juggling a browser, a database, and a gear
Systems
Go, Python, FastAPI, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS
Machine learning
PyTorch, LangChain, Graph-RAG, CLIP, LLMs, WebGPU
Web
TypeScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CI/CD
Pixel-art Bhavana taking a coffee break

If you’re working on distributed systems, applied ML, or developer infrastructure, I’d like to hear about it. Email is the best way to reach me.

banand@umass.edu