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GAURAV
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IT & AI Initiatives — I build AI agents, MCP servers, custom skills & automations.

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ABOUT

Final-year B.Tech (IT) student at NMIMS who ships production AI systems — multilingual voice agents, MCP servers, custom Claude skills, RAG apps, and workflow automations. Published ML research; delivered 27 AI projects during a Waaree Energies internship.

Current quest: IT & AI Initiatives — AI Engineer & Builder (voice agents, MCP servers, custom Claude skills, automations, RAG apps)

EXPERIENCE

Where the XP was earned.

Waaree Energies Ltd.

IT & AI Initiatives (Internship)

2025–2026

India's largest solar PV module manufacturer. 31 AI projects across 9 themes — designed, built and deployed with Claude.

31
projects
9
themes
~84
users enabled
Claude Adoption & Enablement5 quests
  • Org-wide Claude rollout

    Procured the Claude Team plan and onboarded ~84 users across the org. Integrated Claude into Excel, PowerPoint, Canva and Power BI — the foundation for every later project.

  • Canva ↔ Claude integration

    Connected Claude with Canva so the design workflow moves between AI generation and editable brand assets; lets non-designers produce on-brand creatives directly through Claude.

  • Marketing / design team skill enablement

    Built and rolled out custom design skills for the marketing team to self-generate branded assets — standardising output and cutting manual design effort.

  • Claude workshop — Waaree employees

    Ran an internal enablement workshop: Cowork demos + department-specific use cases.

  • Claude workshop — VC / M&A / family-office professionals

    Designed and delivered an external workshop, including building the "Project Atlas" fictional CIM with deliberately planted red flags as a live PE deal-analysis exercise.

Custom Skills Built4 quests
  • waaree-design skill

    Branded visual-asset generator (posters, GIFs, carousels) enforcing the green palette, signature gradient, fonts, logo and footer.

  • waaree-pptx skill

    Org-level skill that auto-applies Waaree's official deck branding (colours, fonts, logo placement, layouts) to any presentation.

  • waaree-solar-cad skill

    Solar PV drafting skill for AutoCAD: module/array layouts, string layouts, cable trenches, earthing layouts, single-line diagrams (SLD).

  • Corporate law & due-diligence skills

    Skills built around the Companies Act 2013 and structured due-diligence workflows for deal and vendor analysis.

Voice AI3 quests
  • "Priya" multilingual voice AI agent

    Solar lead-qualification voice agent (Groq Whisper ASR + Llama-3.3 dialogue + Edge/Sarvam TTS) handling Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Marwadi and Hinglish with mid-conversation language switching — via Vapi, with a Power Automate/OneDrive Excel lead-capture backend.

  • Voice agent company benchmarking

    Engaged a major voice-agent company, mapped their costing model and technical pipeline, and replicated the architecture in the in-house agent.

  • Vapi vs Sarvam cost-analysis reports

    PDF analyses comparing a managed Vapi stack vs a custom Sarvam-based DIY build, quantifying savings at high call volumes.

MCP Servers & Integrations6 quests
  • Solar Rooftop MCP server

    Rooftop-solar estimator: geocode → satellite-tile compositing → Roboflow roof segmentation → panel packing → India-specific financial report (INR/Wp capex + subsidy logic). Built on Mappls + Mapbox; deployed via Claude Code.

  • AutoCAD MCP server setup

    Installed and configured autocad-mcp on AutoCAD 2027; resolved antivirus quarantine and WDAC blockers on the managed device.

  • Meta Ads MCP server

    Set up the Meta Ads MCP both Railway-hosted and as a local Python server for campaign-data access.

  • Power BI with Claude

    Connected Power BI to Claude via a local MCP integration for AI-assisted data analysis.

  • Amazon seller account ↔ Claude

    Connected the Amazon seller account to Claude through a third-party MCP (DataDoe).

  • Other MCP connectors

    Set up and troubleshot Apify, Kite/Zerodha, fal.ai, Pletor AI and Postoro connectors on the managed corporate environment.

Marketing & Ads Analytics1 quest
  • Weekly Meta Ads performance analyses

    Recurring weekly analysis of ad campaigns: account summary, campaign-level insights, period-over-period comparisons.

Sales / B2B Prospecting2 quests
  • B2B prospecting workflow — C&I solar

    Prospecting pipeline targeting Indian manufacturers for commercial & industrial solar using Vibe Prospecting/Explorium + Apollo + Apify + Clay; later adapted for aluminium-extrusion product sales.

  • Paperclip AI B2B aluminium sales POC

    Lead-generation proof-of-concept for aluminium extrusion (ExtrudeIndia Sales Co) integrating HubSpot and Apollo.

Automation (Power Automate)3 quests
  • Daily India RE Sector Briefing

    Automated morning briefing pulling Google News RSS through AI Builder (GPT-4.1 mini) into a formatted seven-section HTML email to Outlook.

  • Daily Stock Market News flow

    Markets briefing covering IPOs, GMP, corporate actions and gainers/losers, with date-guard logic to avoid stale headlines.

  • Amazon reimbursement claim tracker

    Automated tracker with three-stage escalation (15/50/75-day milestones) writing back to Excel via OneDrive.

Engineering / Domain Tools3 quests
  • EPC tender summary

    Full summarisation of EPC solar tenders into concise, decision-ready briefs.

  • Technical tender summary

    Technical-specification summarisation of tenders for fast engineering review.

  • AI recruiting platform evaluation

    Evaluated BabbleBots, HireVue, Talview and iMocha for WESSPL gigafactory hiring; prepared interview materials for Maintenance Electrical Engineer roles.

Dashboards, Scraping & Recent Work (post-report, 2026)4 quests
  • Tender Deals Dashboard (Tender Radar)

    Automated pipeline scraping solar tenders and project-win announcements from Google News RSS, BSE filings and government procurement portals, compiling a dated dashboard/report to OneDrive; runs unattended on Windows Task Scheduler.

  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy (IBBI) Monitoring Dashboard

    Automated daily pipeline scraping IBBI public announcements of defaulting/insolvent companies, extracting text from linked PDFs, and generating per-company HTML dashboards plus a consolidated report to OneDrive each morning. Built with Apify web-scraper + PDF-text-extractor actors, Crawl4AI fallback.

  • ENF Solar web scrape

    Scraped 265 US solar seller/company profiles from ENF Solar for channel mapping and market research, handling Cloudflare-gated contact data with fallback crawling (Apify + external-site crawl).

  • Flipkart Seller MCP server

    Local MCP server wrapping the Flipkart Seller API, exposing listings, orders and shipment data to Claude for e-commerce analytics; companion to the Amazon/DataDoe integration.

CodTech IT Solutions

C++ Programming Intern

Jun–Jul 2025

Task-based internship in C++ programming.

FEATURED PROJECTS

Hand-picked builds. The full live inventory is in the GitHub section below.

AI-Powered Chatbot (RAG-based)

Full-stack Next.js chatbot using Retrieval-Augmented Generation to answer company-specific queries. Integrated Excel + website content as a knowledge base; session memory; dark-mode UI; deployed on Vercel with MongoDB Atlas.

  • Next.js
  • RAG
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Vercel

RAG-Based QA System for YouTube Videos

Transcribes YouTube videos, retrieves relevant segments via embeddings, and generates concise, context-aware answers with an LLM — improving relevance by grounding responses in video content.

  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • LLM

Virtual Hairstyles Simulation using GAN

AI system using StyleGAN2, Mask R-CNN and U-Net to generate and blend realistic hairstyles on user images; accurate pose alignment, colour matching, seamless integration. (Basis of the accepted ICT-2025 paper.)

  • StyleGAN2
  • Mask R-CNN
  • U-Net

Paris Olympics 2024 Dashboard (Power BI)

Interactive dashboard: athlete statistics, medal counts by country, gender distribution, top performers.

  • Power BI
  • Data Viz

GITHUB · LIVE

Fetched live from github.com/MSDHAUNTED — every public repo, every stat, nothing hardcoded.

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SKILLS

Open the inventory — every item collected so far.

Languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • HTML
  • CSS

AI / ML

  • RAG
  • LLMs
  • embeddings
  • StyleGAN2
  • Mask R-CNN
  • U-Net
  • Voice AI (ASR/TTS)
  • Groq Whisper
  • Llama-3.3
  • Edge/Sarvam TTS

Python libraries

  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • Matplotlib

AI tooling / platforms

  • Claude
  • Claude Code
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Vapi
  • Power Automate + AI Builder
  • Roboflow
  • Mappls
  • Mapbox

Data / BI

  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Weka

Web / App dev

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Front-end API integration
  • App Development (Java, Android Studio)

Design / CAD

  • AutoCAD
  • Figma
  • Canva

Databases

  • SQL
  • MySQL
  • Firebase
  • MongoDB Atlas

Tools

  • Visual Studio Code
  • Jupyter Notebook

Concepts

  • Data Visualization
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • DBMS
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Project Management
  • Data Cleaning
  • Data Preprocessing
  • Data Interpretation
  • Statistical Analysis

Soft skills

  • Initiative
  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Adaptability
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Problem solving
  • Presentation
  • Time management
  • Leadership

EDUCATION

B.Tech, Information Technology

MPSTME, NMIMS University

2022–2026CGPA 3.23/4

HSC / 12th

Thakur College of Science and Commerce

2021–202269%

SSC / 10th

Tapovan SanskarDham Vidyalaya (CBSE)

2019–202083.3%

CERTIFICATIONS

Accenture North America

Data Analyst Job Simulation (Virtual Internship)

Jun–Jul 2025

Deloitte

Data Analyst Job Simulation (Virtual Internship)

Jun–Jul 2025

ACHIEVEMENTS

Trophies unlocked along the way.

PUBLICATION

Review paper "ML Technique for Hairstyle Prediction"

Accepted at ICT Conference 2025, Goa.

AWARD

Ideathon Challenge Winner — Sobus Innovent (2022)

Pitched an innovative idea to real investors ("Sharks") and won recognition/award.

VOLUNTEERING

Community Service Volunteer — Lions Club (2023)

Educational support at a government school.

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

  • App Development ClubEditing Team
    Aug 2023 – Apr 2024
  • NMMUNLogistics & Support Teams
    Aug 2023 – Jan 2024
  • Sobus ClubR&D Team
    Aug 2022 – Jul 2023

CONTACT

Side quest, collab or full-time party invite — inbox is open.

Best way to reach me is LinkedIn or GitHub — happy to connect for a side quest, collab or full-time party invite.