Nishith Sura

Software Engineer · AI/ML

University of Maryland, College ParkB.S. Computer Science (Honors)3.8 GPA

Experience

AWS

Software Development Engineering Intern

@ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
June 2025Aug. 2025 · Arlington, VA
  • Products & Solutions Engineering team: building a Healthcare & Life Sciences solution for pharmaceutical enterprises, leveraging Amazon Bedrock for AI-driven anomaly detection and insights on data.
UMD

Undergraduate Student Researcher

@ University of Maryland
Aug. 2024Dec. 2024 · College Park, MD
  • Researched LLM qualitative coding performance (GPT-4o, Claude 3 Opus) using a custom codebook under Dr. Dave Levin and Julio Poveda.
  • Measured accuracy, precision, and F1 on customer reviews; compared model performance.
  • Co-authored a conference-style report and presented to 75+ attendees.

Featured Projects

stockski

PythonAI/MLStreamlitProphet

Stock prediction app combining multiple ML techniques with real-time data and sentiment analysis.

  • Built time-series prediction with Prophet, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and SVR.
  • Streamlit UI for 1,000+ stocks with indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger, ADX, ATR).
  • Applied VADER sentiment; tuned models to reach ~87% predictive accuracy and reduced MAE by 23%.

ScreenApp

JavaScriptReactNode.jsExpress

Real-time collaboration with HD screen sharing, video streaming, and live chat.

  • React front-end with Node/Express back-end; Socket.io for real-time messaging.
  • MongoDB for users/rooms; deployed back-end on AWS EC2 and front-end on Vercel.
  • Served 400+ unique visitors and 100+ rooms created.

Fantasy Football Manager

Node.jsExpressMongoDBPostgreSQL

Fantasy football team manager with live NFL data and standings.

  • Integrated SportsDataIO API and Axios for real-time scores and standings.
  • Dynamic EJS pages for player stats and game scores; tabulated regular season standings.
  • Stored user-selected players and data in MongoDB and PostgreSQL with validation.