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Open to new grad roles starting January 2027

Hi, I'm Stuti.

I build full-stack products, and the systems under them.

Computer Engineering student at uOttawa. Software developer intern at Trend Micro, working across Go, Java, Kafka, and Next.js.

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Ottawa, Canada

Portrait of Stuti Pandya

What I'm looking for

Backend EngineerFull-Stack EngineerSoftware Engineer, New GradAI / ML Engineer

Graduating December 2026 with a BASc in Computer Engineering. Three software internships completed, and legally able to work in Canada full time.

Start date
January 2027
Location
Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, Vancouver, or remote in Canada
Experience
3 software internships
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Internships

Trend Micro · Solace · NRCan (2 co-op terms)

$6–9K/mo
Cloud cost savings identified

AWS cost investigation at Trend Micro

1.4B+
Monthly API calls traced

Root-caused a cost spike to 55 orphaned stacks

0+
CVEs triaged & resolved

With automation cutting manual triage ~75%

0.64→0.83
RAG eval score lift

Nine recorded ablations, traced-research-agent

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Tests on the ledger

Incl. Testcontainers integration tests

01 · About

Who I am

Three internships so far: container security at Trend Micro (Go, Kubernetes, AWS), event brokers at Solace, and two co-op terms at Natural Resources Canada.

I work across the stack, but I like the unglamorous end of it: message ordering, failure recovery, observability. My flagship project is an event-driven transaction ledger with 31 tests proving ordering holds even when things crash, fronted by a Next.js dashboard that streams status live.

On the AI side, I build the measurement around LLM systems, not just demos. My research agent ships with its own eval harness: 8 rubric-scored questions, an LLM judge, and nine recorded ablations that took mean score from 0.641 to 0.831.

Off the clock, I chair uOttawa's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering chapter.

At a glance

  • 🎓 BASc Computer Engineering
  • 📍 Ottawa, Canada
  • 🗓 Graduating December 2026
  • 💼 Currently @ Trend Micro (container security)
  • 🏛 Chair, IEEE WIE uOttawa
Kayaks tied up at a lake dock
off-grid
Canoes on Moraine Lake in the Rockies
banff
Sunset over the Rideau Canal locks in Ottawa
home
Watching flamingos at the park
touching grass

02 · Education

Where I studied

University of Ottawa

Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering

Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship stream

Graduating December 2026

CGPA 8.13/10.0

Dean's Honour List ×2

Systems

Data Structures & AlgorithmsOperating SystemsDistributed SystemsComputer ArchitectureReal-Time Systems

AI / ML

Applied Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence

03 · Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Trend Micro

    Software Developer Intern, Container Security

    May 2026 – Present · Ottawa

    • Traced an API Gateway cost spike across ~1.4B calls/month to 55 orphaned CloudFormation stacks, with $6–9K/month recoverable. Fully independent investigation.
    • Extended the CycloneDX SBOM schema to carry license metadata end to end, a client-requested change across services.
    • Resolved 200+ CVEs; built automation cutting manual triage ~75%.
    GoTypeScriptKubernetesAWSDocker

  2. Solace

    Support Engineer Intern

    Sept 2025 – Dec 2025 · Ottawa

    • Reproduced event broker defects and partnered with R&D to validate and ship fixes.
    • Debugged distributed messaging across hybrid cloud; wrote postmortems tracing root causes through broker and client layers.
    MQTTAMQPJMSRESTWebSocketKubernetes

  3. Natural Resources Canada

    Software Developer Intern, 2 co-op terms

    May 2024 – Aug 2025 · Ottawa

    • Optimized Oracle SQL queries and dashboards to run 30% faster, via join restructuring and indexed views.
    • Built a C# bulk import tool and automated Salesforce sandbox refresh with Apex and PowerShell.
    SalesforceApexC#Oracle SQLPowerShell

04 · Projects

Selected work

Four projects, four full case studies: the problem, the trade-offs, the proof.

Interactive demo

Transaction Ledger Service

An event-driven ledger that never loses or double-applies a transaction, even when it crashes mid-write.

Java 21Spring BootKafkaPostgreSQLNext.jsPrometheusGrafana
Read the case study Source

traced-research-agent

A RAG research agent with the part most demos skip: an eval harness that proves it works.

PythonLangGraphFastAPIChromaBM25RRFGroq
Read the case study

Tinted

Computer vision that gets skin tone right across the full range, then recommends makeup that actually matches.

MediaPipeOpenCVCLIPClaude HaikuFastAPINext.js
Read the case study

Bridge

An ASL translation glove: flex sensors on an ESP32, streaming straight to the browser over Bluetooth.

Arduino Nano ESP32BLEReact NativeWeb Bluetooth
Read the case study Source

Cycling Community App

Android app for forming riding groups. Deployed and used by a local riding community.

Java · Firebase · Android

Continuity Copilot

AI pre-visit briefings for family doctors. 2nd place, Hackers & Healers hackathon.

LangGraph · GPT-4o · HAPI FHIR · React

Aerial Image Segmentation

UNet trained from scratch to spot houses in aerial photos, with CI/CD shipping Docker images.

PyTorch · Flask · Docker · GitHub Actions

05 · Skills

What I work with

Honest depth, not percentage bars. Built means I designed and shipped it; Used means I work in it regularly.

Languages

  • JavaBuilt

    Java 21 ledger service, coursework

  • PythonUsed

    traced-research-agent, Tinted

  • GoUsed

    Production backend services at Trend Micro

  • TypeScriptUsed

    Trend Micro, personal projects

  • C#Used

    Bulk import tooling at NRCan

  • SQLUsed

    PostgreSQL + Oracle query optimization

Backend & Streaming

  • Spring BootBuilt

    Ledger service: Data JPA, Kafka, Actuator

  • KafkaBuilt

    Partitioning, manual offsets, DLT, retries

  • FastAPIBuilt

    traced-research-agent, Tinted

  • FlaskBuilt

    DistilBERT REST API

  • REST / SSEBuilt

    202-async APIs, SSE with keepalive + reconnect

  • Rate limitingBuilt

    Sliding window, Retry-After, spend caps

Data

  • PostgreSQLUsed

    Flyway migrations, optimistic locking

  • Oracle SQLUsed

    Join restructuring, indexed views: 30% faster

  • FirebaseUsed

    Real-time backend, Android cycling app

  • SupabaseUsed

    Auth and storage, Tinted

Cloud & DevOps

  • KubernetesUsed

    Debugging production workloads at Trend Micro

  • Docker ComposeBuilt

    Postgres, Kafka KRaft, Prometheus, Grafana

  • DockerUsed

    Multi-stage, non-root images

  • AWS CloudWatchUsed

    1.4B-call cost spike investigation

  • GitHub ActionsBuilt

    CI/CD at Trend Micro + ledger service

  • HelmTouched

    Chart misconfiguration fix

AI & ML

  • LLM evaluationBuilt

    LLM-as-judge, golden sets, ablation

  • LangGraphBuilt

    Multi-step research agent, Continuity Copilot

  • PyTorchBuilt

    UNet trained from scratch, IoU/Dice reporting

  • Hybrid retrieval (RRF)Built

    Dense + BM25 fused, 0.64 to 0.83 eval

  • Chroma + embeddingsBuilt

    all-MiniLM-L6-v2, per-slide chunking

  • CLIPBuilt

    Precomputed shade embeddings, Tinted

  • MediaPipe / OpenCVBuilt

    468-point mesh, CLAHE, Lab colour space

Tools

  • Claude CodeUsed

    Daily driver for build and review

  • Git / GitHub ActionsBuilt

    Multi-job CI with test gates

  • GroqUsed

    llama-3.3-70b for agent and judge

Testing & Observability

  • TestcontainersBuilt

    Real Postgres + Kafka in integration tests

  • AwaitilityBuilt

    Async assertions without sleeps

  • pytestBuilt

    77-test Tinted suite

  • JUnit 5 / MockitoBuilt

    31-test ledger suite

  • PrometheusBuilt

    Micrometer instrumentation

  • GrafanaBuilt

    Provisioned dashboards: p99, consumer lag

06 · Beyond the code

Leadership & achievements

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa, photo 1
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa, photo 2
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa, photo 3

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering, uOttawa

Sept 2024 – Present

Chair (2026–27) · previously Vice Chair, VP External

  • VP External → Vice Chair → Chair, across three years.
  • Launched WIEee Code, our first beginner hackathon, and built the starter template teams worked from.
  • Built a mentorship program pairing upper-years with first- and second-years.
  • Ran WIPS 2026 and a 100+ participant hackathon, plus workshops on Git, React, and Docker.

2nd place, Hackers & Healers AI in Healthcare hackathon

Continuity Copilot: agentic clinical briefing on FHIR data

2026

Dean's Honour List ×2

University of Ottawa, Faculty of Engineering

2024–2025

WIEee Code: founded the chapter's first beginner hackathon

Including the starter template teams built from

2025

07 · Contact

Let's talk

Interviewing for new grad SWE roles starting January 2027. Hiring, or just want to talk backend systems? My inbox is open.

Email

stuti.pandya0@gmail.com

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GitHub

github.com/stupnd

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