ABOUT ME

Hey, I’m Anusha, and this is a small window into who I am. You’d typically find me with my nose in a book in my free time. I have been reading novels since a very young age, and have also dabbled in writing, myself. When I was 15, I wrote a fiction novel called ‘Fatal Souvenirs’. All of this led me to develop a deep love for literature and languages. I find the sheer number of languages spoken, and the differences in their structures to be quite fascinating. I’m learning to speak Spanish as I consider it to be one of the most beautiful languages, and aim to be a polyglot with several languages in my repertoire.

I’m a strong advocate of being active and the positive effects of exercise on one’s body and mind. I was an athlete in school, and I currently practice Yoga to stay healthy. I’m always up for any sport, be it a board game like chess, something physical like volleyball, or even trivia. I’m a tree hugger who enjoys the occasional hike over the weekend to simply savor the serenity of nature away from technology.

We have one life, so we should make the best of it. I wish to travel and see the world, experience new cultures and create new memories. I want to conquer my fear of swimming, and be someone to be proud of. I aspire to build my career in the field where my two passions, i.e. language and computers intersect. I believe a major part of the future of technology lies here, and that the benefits of a computer that can comprehend and fluently converse in languages are enormous.

EXPERIENCE

  • July 2025 - Present

    AI Research Assistant

    VISA Research Lab (ASU)

    Remote

    • Aiding PhD research into social health recommendation agents focusing on LLM based adaptive personalization

    • Working on long term memory context retrieval with open-source MCPs and Agentic RAG, leveraging CrewAI

  • June 2024 - August 2024

    Software Engineering Intern

    National Basketball Association (NBA)

    New York City, NY

    • Worked on core frontend infrastructure for Sports News, Ads, Catalogs, Scores and Subscriptions on NBA.com

    • Performed Tailwind to CSS codebase migrations and abstracted JavaScript serialization into separate packages

    • Refactored core Python authentication REST APIs for League Pass subscriptions, and created a framework for granular control over ads serving logic in GraphQL

  • August 2023 - Present

    Graduate

    Arizona State University

    Tempe, AZ

    Master of Science
    Computer Science

  • August 2020 - June 2023

    Software Engineer

    Target Corporation

    Bangalore, KA

    • Search team at Target is responsible for search and recommendation on Target.com, managing the entire lifecycle from search input and autocomplete, to query completion, normalization, and query suggestions

    • Touching Java, Kotlin, React, Docker, Kubernetes and Elasticsearch, I built and maintained enterprise grade cross-functional microservices with associated testing, observability and ops through Grafana and Kibana

    • Improved user query suggestion ranking by leveraging search prefix prioritization, fuzzy matching and look-up tries, leading to large improvements in peak search transaction throughput

    • Productionized a Kafka based Sequence Generator, serving as an efficient product catalog engine that consolidates information from various sources, for which I was recognized with an award

    • Built pipelines to consolidate Kafka clusters and Redis cache in real-time for high availability during peak hours, and migrated sections of Target's tech stack from Java, Spring and MySQL to Kotlin, Micronaut and PostgreSQL

    • Identified critical fields and re-indexed Target's fork of Metabase that interfaces with MongoDB, resulting in reduced time taken to visualize data from over a minute down to sub 1000ms

  • August 2016 - August 2020

    Undergraduate

    PES University

    Bangalore, KA

    Bachelor of Engineering
    Computer Science and Engineering

  • May 2014 - May 2016

    Pre-University

    HAL Public School

    Bangalore, KA

    CBSE 12th grade | 93.2%.

  • May 2002 - May 2014

    High School

    HAL Public School

    Bangalore, KA

    CBSE 10th grade | CGPA 10.