Surya Santhosh Kumar

HackHarvard 2024 Winner | AWS re:Invent 2025 ABW Grant | 1x AWS Certified | Perplexity AI Fellowship ‘25 | Final year CS-AI@Amrita

Palakkad, Kerala, India

About

Experience

  • College Intern at Caterpillar Inc.
    Jan 2026 - Jun 2026 · 6 mos

  • AWS ABW Fellow at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos

  • HackHarvard at HackHarvard Undergraduate Hackathon
    Oct 2024 - Oct 2024 · 1 mo

    https://hackharvard.io ✨ 1st Place Winner (Best Overall Hack Award) at HackHarvard 2024 @ Harvard University ✱ Designed and developed an AI-powered app promoting eco-friendly and healthy lifestyle choices. ✱ Built with Flutter (Dart) and Streamlit (Python) for the frontend, FastAPI for RESTful APIs, and MongoDB Atlas for vector storage. Leveraged Langchain, LlamaIndex, and ScrapeGraph.AI for data preprocessing and scraping, Hugging Face’s BGE-Large for embeddings, and Gemini-1.5, GPT-4, and Groq LPUs for inference. Integrated Firebase for user management and Neo4j for knowledge graph creation. ✱ Recognized with 1st Place (Best Hack) among 600+ teams from 284+ universities, judged by 40+ industry experts (including Microsoft, Google) and mentored by Prof. Leslie Valiant (Turing Award Winner) and Prof. David J. Malan (CS50). (5M+ views across Social Media) Gained experience in agile development, teamwork, and research methodologies. ✱ Organised by CS50 Team and Professor David J. Malan, Harvard University

  • Community Builder at Codecademy
    Feb 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • AI R&D Intern at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    May 2024 - Aug 2024 · 4 mos

    ✱ Developed an AI system for early glaucoma detection, enhancing diagnostic speed and accuracy. ✱ Designed an AI exam platform for 2,000+ students, creating personalized knowledge graphs (KGs) to represent individual understanding and challenge students at their optimal learning level. ✱ Organized and led a Workshop for 600+ students on Generative AI, LLMs, and text-to-image generation. Developed skills in AI model development, data analysis, and technical instruction.