Naveen Shankar
Software developer passionate about creating elegant solutions to complex problems. Specializing in modern AI technologies and scalable backend systems.
Technical Skills
Experience & Education
Professional Experience
Software Developer - Audit & Compliance Services
March 2024 - July 2025
Standard Chartered
Chennai, India
- Developed audit-trail compliance tracking system capturing form field changes across 20+ business workflows, leveraging Java, Kafka for real-time event streaming, and Redis for data caching to ensure regulatory adherence
- Designed an automated form deployment library system with CI/CD pipeline reducing deployment cycle time by 2 weeks, building Spring Boot RESTful microservices with PostgreSQL and JUnit/Mockito test suite in Agile team
- Engineered AI-powered SQL script generation system reducing manual scripting time by 90%, automating data update workflows using Python templates for backend system operations
Software Developer (R&D) - Functions Innovation
July 2022 - February 2024
Standard Chartered
Chennai, India
- Architected Java-based Humanoid Robot serving 15,000+ monthly customers in retail banking branches, autonomously resolving customer queries via REST APIs and reducing turnaround time by 56%
- Implemented an AI Conversational Chatbot utilizing NLTK, spaCy for intent detection, powered by GPT-based few-shot prompting of FAQ documents, deployed internally to 10,000+ employees and showcased to the Group CEO demonstrating enterprise scalability
- Built Functional Coin, a Java distributed systems based blockchain prototype, achieving 23% faster transaction speeds than traditional systems, presented findings at conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Built AI-driven fraud detection system using scikit-learn models to flag suspicious transactions based on frequency, amount, and behavioral analysis with 93% accuracy
Research Intern - aXess Labs Innovation
May 2021 - July 2021
Standard Chartered
Dubai, UAE
- Developed Java Spring Boot file management system streamlining recruitment workflows for 8,000+ employees
- Built React-based onboarding pipeline integrating document upload, background verification, and HR approval workflows
Education
Master's in Computer Science
2025 - Present
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bachelor's in Computer Science
2018 - 2022
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Warangal, India
Awards & Activities
Featured Projects
Fine-tuning LLM E-commerce Agent
Intelligent hybrid agent chatbot system using fine-tuned LLM for optimal response quality and latency
Traffic Sign Recognition System
Classification of traffic signs
Calendar Application
Creating, editing and querying events in calendar
Form Workflow Management System
Creating forms based on various business workflows
Humanoid Robot Customer Assistant
Context based assistant providing query resolutions to retail banking customers
Checkers Reinforcement Learning Agent
Self-learning checkers AI with reinforcement learning and gradient descent optimization
AI Conversational bot
AI chatbot app responsible for delivering responses based on FAQ modules
Lie Detection System
Detecting whether a person is telling the truth or lie based on features extracted from EEG
Get In Touch
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Contact Information
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
nagarajasudhakar.n@northeastern.edu
Phone
+1 (857) 397-6975