Harsh Gurnani

Experience

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  Youth Emergency Preparedness Council

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2022

  Co-Founder/President

  • Founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a focus on providing the community with the skills and tools necessary to respond to an emergency situation via various training sessions (i.e. CPR training, COVID webinar, etc.)• Effectively planned training events and fundraisers, managed board meetings, and maintained internal communications.• Led the organization as President from August 2021 to August 2022.

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  Rosetta Institute

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  Bioinformatics Researcher

  • Researched the ZNF630 gene and gathered data to predict its function.• Used Bioinformatics tools such as GWAS and Bio Grid, gained knowledge on data handling.• Later applied skills to independent project to predict B cell epitopes on PDGFRB protein, won third place at ACSEF

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  Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program (ASDRP)

  Jun 2021 - Dec 2021

  IOS App Development

  • Developed an iOS app that would provide cognitive training for patients with Alzheimer. • Worked on database design and used Dart and Flutter.

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  Triton Unmanned Aerial Systems

  Sept 2022 - Dec 2023

  Computer Vision Developer

  • Working on building a self-flying, object-detecting aerial vehicle to present to the Department of Defense• Utilizing PyTorch for developing a neural network framework to classify ground targets from 400 ft. altitude• Training and testing a Faster RCNN detection network for salient object detection based on physical traits

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  Triton Software Engineering

  Nov 2022 - now

  • Work with a team to build software for nonprofit organizations• Use React Native with Expo for mobile development, and MERN stack for web development• Follow the Agile workflow philosophy to create a collaborative environment up to industry standards

  • Engineering Manager

    Jun 2024 - now

  • Software Developer

    Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
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  Crescent Fund

  Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

  University Partner

  • Investor at Southern California’s first student-run venture fund focusing on building the SoCal startup culture• Identify potential Seed and Series A investment opportunities for the fund by analyzing high-growth startups• Performing market research to make targeted investments into viable products from a fund of $1.5M

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  Sustainable Investment Group at UC San Diego

  Mar 2023 - Sept 2023

  Quantitative Analyst

  • Building Value at Risk model with Monte Carlo simulation in Python to analyze Costco’s stock• Conducted time series forecasting using predictive LSTM model to form buy/sell/hold recommendation• Delivered and won a comprehensive stock pitch by working alongside equity research/sustainability teams

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  Bear River Associates

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Software Engineer Intern

  • Created an browser-based mail scanning interface in Angular using a cutting-edge document scanning SDK to expedite mailroom processing time by 50% and simplify service implementation on client-side devices• Utilized spaCy Named Entity Recognition NLP method to extract information from mail addresses; deployed on Amazon SageMaker and AWS API Gateway to develop scalable service and handle increased load

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  HP Tech Ventures

  Sept 2023 - Nov 2023

  Data Analysis Intern

  • Analyzed data from over 20000 startups using SQL and Excel, and automated data extraction with SQL scripts to reduce analysis time by 30%, to extract investment trends in the corporate venture capital space• Identified correlations between startup characteristics and funding outcomes to guide investment strategies

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  UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE)

  Dec 2023 - now

  CSE Tutor

  • Instructional Assistant working under Professor Niema Moshiri for CSE 100 (Advanced Data Structures in C++)• Teach implementations of advanced data structures (BSTs, Graphs, Tries, etc.) in C++ • Facilitate student learning by holding lab hours to help students debug with GDB and draw DSA visualizations• Assist instructor and TA’s in testing programming assignments, assessments, and answering questions on EdStem

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  Arista Networks

  Jun 2024 - Sept 2024

  Software Engineering Intern

  • Engineer multicast routing solutions to enhance network performance and support cloud traffic patterns at scale• Led refactoring of PIM multicast protocol code to integrate a new hashing system, improving efficiency by 20%• Developed Python and C++ tools on Linux platform for 10+ bug fixes, impacting 5,000 enterprise customers