Passionate about building scalable applications and cloud architecture
Portfolio: baalavignesh.com
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Best Prototype Award @ Story3 HackerEarth
- Project: NewEnd - GenMode
- AI-driven storytelling platform with dynamic narrative branches
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Honorable Mentions @ DataPalooza
- Project: HealthHub
- Healthcare appointment and community health alert platform
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Graduate Research Assistant @ George Mason University (Aug 2025 - Present)
- Modeling Bertrand competition scenarios with MARL simulations in Python and RLlib
- Implementing Q-learning pipelines to study pricing strategy convergence and Nash equilibria
- Presenting market dynamics insights for MBA analytics curriculum research
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Software Engineer @ Motate (May 2024 - August 2025)
- Building serverless multilingual content platform using AWS Lambda/API Gateway
- Implementing Terraform/GitHub Actions for AWS environments
- Optimizing DynamoDB schemas with secondary indexes
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Associate Engineer @ Presidio (Sep 2023 - Jul 2024)
- Developed internal learning platforms and retro tools using React and AWS
- Worked on WebRTC, CI/CD pipeline design, and mobile app development
- Gained expertise in Azure, DevOps, Flutter, Kotlin, AWS, and React Native
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Software Engineer Intern @ Toast (Jun 2022 - Jul 2022)
- Developed full-stack application using React and AWS services
- Implemented API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB architecture
- Optimized frontend and backend components for performance

