PORTFOLIO / 2025

Bala
Shukla

Computer Science & Data Science student crafting AI solutions at the intersection of machine learning, web development, and data engineering.

Open to Chat
Madison, WI
CURRENTLY
Applied AI Co-Op
@ Direct Supply
May 2025 — Present
FOCUS
AI & ML
LLMsAI AgentsPyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnMLflowDatabricksLangChain
Languages
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaSQLBash
Web & Mobile
ReactNext.jsFastAPINode.jsReact NativeAndroidTailwind CSS
Cloud & DevOps
AWSAzureGCPDockerTerraformCI/CDGitLinux

Selected Work

2023 — 2025
2025

Applied AI Co-Op

Direct Supply

Discovered, validated, and deployed a Labor Price Prediction Model using Gradient Boosted Trees on 100k+ historical bids, increasing coverage by 6x and saving 80+ hours weekly.

PythonMLFlowDatabricksAWSFastAPIReact
2024

Undergraduate Researcher

TRAIL AI Lab - UW Madison

Pioneered development of SLAI - a tool Bridging Science and Language using AI. Focusing on model fine-tuning, prompting techniques, and statistical testing for low-resource languages.

PythonFastAPINextJSGCPPyTorch
2023

Founder

Great River Web Solutions LLC

Developed responsive websites for local businesses using TypeScript and React, generating 10,000+ viewers monthly with Azure cloud hosting.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsAzure
2023

Mobile App Development Intern

John Deere

Deployed an Android mobile application in Java/Kotlin with Firebase authentication for real-time nutrient reporting. Presented final solution to 150+ managers.

JavaKotlinFirebaseAndroid

Education & Certifications

2023 — 2027
2027
Projected

Honors B.S. in Computer Science & Data Science

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dean's List student focusing on operating systems, algorithm design, big data systems, and machine learning. Relevant coursework includes data science modeling, linear algebra, and machine organization.

2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)

Amazon Web Services

Event-driven, fault-tolerant microservice design across VPCs, S3, Lambda, and RDS.

CertificationView Certificate
2024

Machine Learning Specialization

Deeplearning.AI & Stanford University

Supervised, unsupervised, and deep-learning projects using TensorFlow, NumPy, and scikit-learn.

CertificationView Certificate

Recent Thoughts

Coming Soon

I'm working on some exciting thoughts and insights to share. Check back soon for updates on AI, web development, and technology.

Let's Connect

Always interested in new opportunities, collaborations, and conversations about technology and AI.

Feel free to reach out through any of the platforms listed below.

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