Durva Dev

MS at Penn State. Built RAG applications and maintained legacy banking software. Recently built agentic AI at the Amazon Nova Challenge.

Skills

Languages
C/C++ · Go · JavaScript · TypeScript · Python
Systems
Raft · gRPC · Kubernetes · Terraform · PostgreSQL · AWS · GCP
AI
RAG · Agents · MCP · Bedrock · LangChain · LangGraph

Projects

Experience

Applied AI Engineer

01/2026 – 05/2026

Amazon NOVA Challenge @ PSU — State College, PA

  • Built a Python agentic orchestration system for code generation using Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock, and Claude Agent SDK for repository analysis, SpecKit-style planning, and multi-turn coding-agent feedback.
  • Developed automated validation and testing pipelines using Docker, GitHub, AWS CodeBuild, Playwright, and JUnit, with execution-based approval gates for generated code.
  • Built fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure with Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3, implementing persistent execution state, idempotent retries, deadline-aware processing, and protocol safeguards.

Systems Engineer

07/2022 – 07/2024

Tata Consultancy Services — Mumbai, India

  • Project MARG: Co-architected and built a 0-to-1 RAG system for TCS BaNCS pre-sales engineers, saving roughly three weeks per response cycle.
  • Improved retrieval precision by approximately 15% by building a manually curated golden dataset and evaluating chunking and search configurations in a Python FastAPI and LangChain pipeline.
  • Reduced query latency by 40% by tuning chunking strategies and adding structured metadata filters to narrow retrieval scope.
  • Project SNB: Built scheduled IBM MQ workflows to deliver data to downstream systems and implemented stateful processing for monitoring and account-transition workflows.
  • Diagnosed production issues using EXPLAIN PLAN and query isolation, tracing full table scans and incorrect results to faulty stored-procedure logic.

Education

Penn State University

08/2024 – 05/2026

M.S. Computer Science — University Park

University of Mumbai

08/2018 – 05/2022

B.E. Computer Engineering — India

Contact

Say hello. Both GitHub accounts are linked below.