Prakhar Agrawal

Intern @ Jane Street | CS + Math + Econ @ Amherst | CS @ Berkeley

San Francisco Bay Area

About

I love building things, from systems and tools to ideas that solve challenging problems! I like building projects where I can break down complex constraints, prototype quickly, and iterate until something actually works. Most of my experience is in software engineering, ML-driven systems, and backend infrastructure, but the common thread is simple, I enjoy figuring things out. I’ve worked on research and engineering teams in high-performance computing, security, and machine learning, and I’ve spent a lot of time teaching and mentoring other students. These experiences shape how I approach problems: focus on fundamentals, understand the constraints, and build with intention. I’m always on the lookout for opportunities where I can take ownership of problems end to end, learn from great teammates, and ship work that makes a real impact! If you have an interesting idea, let's chat!

Experience

  • Strategy and Product Intern at Jane Street
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Canopy Fellow at Founders, Inc.
    Apr 2026 - May 2026 · 2 mos

  • AI Research Intern at Amherst College
    Sep 2025 - May 2026 · 9 mos

    - Built RAG pipeline to generate visual art descriptions for 20K+ artworks using Multimodal LLMs - Developed and implemented evaluation methodology like classification of descriptions to whether they have subjective analysis - Accepted and presented findings at AI in Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College - Gathered insights from 20+ vision-language papers to guide few-shot training

  • Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Nevara
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    • Co-led the launch of an AI-powered recruiting platform adopted by 160+ candidates by engineering core infrastructure and features in React, Next.js, and Python; managed data using a PostgreSQL database • Boosted candidate-job match accuracy by 50% by implementing vector-similarity based resume ranking • Built & deployed sub-1100ms latency voice assessment agent using Deepgram, OpenAI & Cartesia on AWS Fargate • Ensured 100% database uptime by managing Supabase migrations and deploying secure authentication with Clerk

  • Founding Engineer at Ideas 2 Innovation
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Founding member of first-ever startup accelerator at college to assist startups in developing tech and raising capital • Created 10+ software engineering templates for mobile app, web dev, and web scraping, including a working stock trading app