Darshan Nere
Work
  • Aug 2025 - Current
    Virginia Tech
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Delivered instruction on supervised/unsupervised learning, ensemble methods, reinforcement learning, and structured models to a class of 60+ students, improving exam performance by 15% on average.
    • Guided 40+ students on portfolio projects (KNN, clustering/dimensionality reduction, reinforcement learning).
    • Mentored students on semester-long capstone projects applying ML to real-world datasets (images, text, robotics).
  • Dec 2024 - Current
    Virginia Tech
    Research Assistant
    • Built a real-time group coding platform for students using WebSockets, Yjs, and containerized microservices, enabling synchronous editing and improving collaboration efficiency by 40%.
    • Integrated locally hosted Gemma3- 27B LLM agents to facilitate task assignment, conflict resolution, and workflow guidance,streamlining group coordination in coding projects.
    • Applied LLM-based structure prediction to datasets, cutting analysis time by 25% while improving accuracy of results by 15%.
    • Deployed collaboration agents on a private cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure, low-latency performance for multi-user environments.
  • Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
    Cloud9Space
    Full Stack Software Engineer
    • Designed and delivered municipal-scale software adopted by 50k+ active users at Pune Municipal Corporation
    • Built and shipped 5 new product features for Luki by KrediYA, a financial platform with 15k+ active users, improving user experience and engagement.
    • Developed and launched 5 mobile apps using React Native, including an advanced HR management app resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement metrics.
    • Implemented AWS hosting on EC2, RDS, and PostgreSQL servers for web applications, reducing server downtime by 40% and increasing site speed by 25%.
  • Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
    Softinfo Systems Pvt. Ltd.
    Mobile Developer Intern
    • Built JWT authentication and optimized REST API calls, resulting in a 30% reduction in load times for the application.
    • Collaborated with the UX team to redesign the user interface for the mobile app, improving responsiveness by 40% and increasing user satisfaction by 20%.
    • Engineered new features using the Flutter framework, resulting in a 15% increase in daily active users within the first month of release.