Software/Forward Deployed/AI EngineerNYC + NASHVILLE

I build dependable systems for messy, real-world problems.

I’m Divij Kapur, an engineer working across applied AI, backend systems, and product delivery. I turn ambiguous requirements into software that is useful, inspectable, and ready to operate.

Divij Kapur at Washington Square Park in New York City
BASED INNYC + NASHVILLE
APPLIED AI✦BACKEND ENGINEERING✦VECTOR RETRIEVAL✦DATA PIPELINES✦PRODUCT DELIVERY✦

Things I’ve built.

Three projects that show how I approach product, infrastructure, and applied AI.

MLOPS · END TO END

Network phishing detection

An end-to-end phishing classification system built around reliable validation, reproducible training, experiment tracking, and API serving.

A modular training and serving pipeline with automated validation, transformation, model artifacts, monitoring, and a containerized delivery path.

  • PYTHON
  • FASTAPI
  • MONGODB
  • DOCKER
  • AWS

RESEARCH · GPU PIPELINE

BioSET — 3D tissue co-localization

A GPU-accelerated scientific pipeline that turns massive 3D tissue volumes into queryable marker co-localization evidence.

A reproducible and resumable Nextflow pipeline for analyzing spatial co-location of biological markers on NYU’s HPC environment.

  • NEXTFLOW
  • CUPY
  • PYTHON
  • HPC
  • VALIDATION

Roles that shaped how I build.

Product engineering, applied AI, and research—each with a different definition of “done.”

JUN–JUL 2025

Launch Intern

Capgemini Americas · New York

Engineered an LLM-powered proof of concept that transformed SRS documents into structured epics, user stories, and resource-aware sprint plans prepared for Jira integration.

  • LLM WORKFLOWS
  • ETL
  • MONGODB
  • JIRA API
JAN 2022–JUN 2024

Full Stack Software Engineer

U-NEXT Learning · Bangalore

Built APIs, real-time communication features, client SDKs, and video-processing workflows for remote proctoring and assessment products. Improved API response times by 40% and reduced video delivery from days to near-instant availability.

  • REST
  • REDIS
  • WEBSOCKETS
  • AWS S3
JAN 2026–JUN 2026

Research Assistant

NYU VIDA · New York

Developed a reproducible GPU-accelerated pipeline for analyzing biological marker co-localization in 3D tissue images, with modular and resumable stages built for NYU’s HPC environment.

  • NEXTFLOW
  • CUPY
  • PYTHON
  • HPC
JAN 2025–MAY 2026

Course Assistant

NYU Tandon · New York

Led graduate recitations in C programming and embedded systems, helping students build and debug STM32F429I projects with PlatformIO and Mbed OS.

  • C
  • STM32
  • PLATFORMIO
  • MBED OS

I’m interested in the space between “it works” and “it works well in practice.”

I work across software engineering and applied machine learning, especially when a problem crosses boundaries: model and infrastructure, research and product, technical tradeoffs and user needs.

The details that make a prototype dependable matter to me—data quality, failure modes, authentication, evaluation, deployment, and interfaces that help people make good decisions.

2026
M.S. Computer Engineering

New York University, Tandon School of Engineering

2022
B.S. Computer & Communication Engineering

Manipal University Jaipur

What I use to ship

Applied AI

  • RAG
  • Vector search
  • Embeddings
  • Evaluation
  • Tool calling

Backend & web

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • WebSockets

Data systems

  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Spark
  • Kafka

Delivery

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD

HAVE A HARD ENGINEERING PROBLEM?

Let’s build something that works.

I’m open to software, forward deployed, and AI engineering roles.

divij.kapur@nyu.edu ↗ Back to top