Hi! I'm Yana. I'm currently working as a Teaching Assistant for Systems programming at Purdue, and ML Research Assistant for the PurSecLab. This summer, I was a SWE intern at Quickscrum, and I taught agentic automation to corporate teams at Smartant Technologies. I'm pursuing a double major in CS and AI with a Business Economics minor at Purdue. In my free time, I read murder mysteries, learn languages, and tinker with open source. Check out more on my personal website, yanashah.dev!
I build technology that serves a purpose. Two things I consider when I build are accessibility and impact. Some of my best work has come from sitting across from people who see the world completely differently than I do, with different disciplines, different backgrounds, different instincts. That friction is where the interesting ideas live.
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| RepoMind | Agentic Codebase Assistant heling new devs onboard large repos (AST chunking, BM25 + vector, RRF fusion, call graph); +9.6% MRR over naive RAG, fully local | Python, FastAPI, tree-sitter, ChromaDB, NetworkX, Ollama |
| FlowFuel 🏆 | Cycle-synced AI powered nutrition app for Purdue women made on webscraped Purdue dining data across 5 dining courts | React, Flask, GROQ, Node.js |
| GitPatch | Patch management system with AI-powered patch summaries | Python, AWS S3/Lambda, OpenAI API |
| Blotto Solver | Colonel Blotto Solver for the mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium via linear programming | Python, SciPy (linprog/HiGHS), Monte Carlo |
| Foundry-Fab | AI decision-support tool for semiconductor operations — agentic state machine, deterministic conflict-checking, operator dashboard | Python, FastAPI, React, NetworkX, Claude API |
| Shell | Unix shell from scratch; pipelines, job control, wildcards, tab completion | C++, flex, bison |
| Malloc | Custom memory allocator; segregated free lists, constant-time coalescing | C |
🏆 FlowFuel: 2nd Place Overall, InnovateHer 2025 (200+ participants)
Languages
ML / AI
Web / Backend
Databases
Infra / Cloud
LLM / Agents
I speak eight languages!

