Data Systems Developer (Part-Time) / Bawarchi Biryanis

2024 - Current

Family-owned restaurant, Miami, FL

• Designed, built, and maintain the restaurant's inventory and sales data system, in active use by the business since 2024.
• Built Python ETL pipelines that load spreadsheet-based inventory and sales records into a SQL data warehouse.
• Built a Power BI reporting dashboard the business uses to model food costs, plan catering orders, and reduce food waste.
• Support seasonal demand swings, with the heaviest use during holiday catering peaks.

Graduate Research Assistant / Florida International University, Robotics & Spatial AI Lab

August 2024 - September 2026

• Built the data ingestion and retrieval backend for MHyCube-RAG, a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation system for compound flood reasoning.
• Engineered pipelines integrating NASA IMERG satellite precipitation, NOAA MRMS radar rainfall, and NOAA CO-OPS tide gauge data into a shared spatiotemporal data store, processing 50GB+ of structured and unstructured data.
• Built an evaluation benchmark and ran a six-way retrieval comparison (hypercube, dense, BM25, FLARE, GraphRAG, and fusion multimodal), validating 96% correctness and 94.7% completeness against ground truth.
• Deployed the MarineGPT vision-language model on shared A100 GPU servers and built pipelines that capture snapshots from 10 ocean livestreams every 5 minutes and caption them automatically, running unattended.
• Reused the system's architecture for a second application in fisheries (FishRAG). Code: FIU-MoRA-Lab/Hypercube-RAG-FIU.

MHyCube-RAG: An Integrated Multimodal RAG Architecture for Compound Flood Reasoning

IEEE ICTAI 2026 (conference paper submission)

Shows that sensor-grounded multimodal retrieval answers predictive spatiotemporal flood questions that text retrieval alone cannot.

Poster Presentation, i-GUIDE Conference

August 2026, University of Illinois Chicago

Presented the MHyCube-RAG framework at the NSF-supported Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment conference.

Master of Science in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

2023 - 2026

Florida International University, Miami, FL

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry

2017 - 2021

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Databricks: AI in the Flow of Data Engineering
• PCEP: Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer
• Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate (in progress)

• Academic Tutor, On Point Tutoring (November 2023 - Current): one-on-one tutoring in calculus, regression modeling, machine learning, and programming.
• Medical Transcriptionist, Quest Diagnostics (October 2022 - May 2023)
• Medical Assistant, Mendez Medical Center (August 2021 - March 2022)