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Aastika Banstola
IT Support Specialist, University of Louisiana at Monroe
Location: Nashville, TN United States
Joined: Aug 28th, 2024

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I currently work with University of Louisiana at Monroe as IT Support Specialist
I have years of experience working in the industry.

Software Engineering Intern | Salesforce
From May 2026 to August 2026 • 0 year(s)
Led design and development of a Slack-based AI agent for Salesforce's internal Data 360 platform using Claude, Mastra, TypeScript, and MCP, enabling secure natural-language access to 27+ enterprise data sources. Engineered the enterprise AI data layer leveraging Snowflake Zero-Copy architecture with Salesforce Data Cloud, reducing audit data retrieval latency by 93%.

Teaching Assistant | Fisk University
From January 2026 to April 2026 • 0 year(s)
Assisted around 40 students in Programming Languages course, supporting instruction and strengthening understanding of core CS concepts.

Extern | The Home Depot
From September 2025 to November 2025 • 0 year(s)
Analyzed workforce strategies across 5+ companies, identified key gaps vs. Tesla's START program, and proposed a pathway projected to boost early-career conversion by 15-20% and Gen Z retention by up to 30%.

Software Engineering Intern | Bruce Technologies
From June 2025 to August 2025 • 0 year(s)
Engineered backend features in Python, Django, and Django REST Framework including template cloning, API pagination, and rate-limiting throttling that blocked thousands of malicious requests daily. Investigated and resolved a race condition in AWS production affecting 100+ active users within an hour.

AI/ML and Software Engineering Intern | Fisk University MSIPP
From June 2025 to August 2025 • 0 year(s)
Built and deployed predictive ML models (Random Forest, SVM, XGBoost) in AWS SageMaker for pancreatic cancer survival analysis, achieving 98% accuracy. Developed a faculty-oriented cloud recommendation system using Google Forms and a SQL database pipeline.

Undergraduate Research Intern | CollabNext at Georgia Institute of Technology
From January 2025 to April 2025 • 0 year(s)
Deployed the alpha version of CollabNext using Flask microservices, PostgreSQL, Docker, Azure Container Registry, and Kubernetes, supporting 100+ researchers across 5 HBCUs. Built CI/CD pipelines and improved backend query response time from over 2 seconds to under 1 second.

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