Kavya Agar
CS @ Texas A&M · Aspiring Product Manager
> Technical depth, product vision
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[ ABOUT ME ]
The Portfolio
Kavya Agar
CS Student · Aspiring PM · Builder
CS student at Texas A&M University pivoting into product management. I spent years learning how software is built — now I care more about what to build and why. I bring an engineering foundation to product decisions: understanding tradeoffs, speaking to devs, and grounding strategy in data.
[ MARKET DATA ]
[ EDUCATION ]
Texas A&M University
B.S. in Computer Science · Minors: Statistics, Business
Aug 2024 – May 2027
[ SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES ]
Tech Stack
Proficiency measured in market confidence
LANGUAGES
FRAMEWORKS & ML
CLOUD & DEVOPS
[ ALSO FAMILIAR WITH ]
[ WORK EXPERIENCE ]
The Ledger
May 2026 – Present
Business Development Intern
Aspen Technology
📍 Houston, TX
- ▸[Upcoming summer 2026]
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024
Technical Business Analyst Intern
Aspen Technology
📍 Houston, TX
- ▸Built automated Python web-scraping pipelines using BeautifulSoup and Selenium to analyze 5+ competing analytics platforms, reducing manual research time by 60%
- ▸Partnered with PMs and engineers to translate data insights into product strategy decisions, contributing to an estimated 15% revenue impact
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
Software Engineering Intern · Team Lead
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
📍 Houston, TX
- ▸Engineered a multithreaded Java data pipeline for a distributed system migrating 10TB+ from Apache Cassandra to AWS S3, implementing custom Parquet conversion and improving migration efficiency by 90%
- ▸Collaborated with 3 senior engineers through 10+ code reviews to harden system reliability, performance, and data integrity, writing unit tests and validating end-to-end pipeline correctness
- ▸Led daily Agile stand-ups for an 8-person cross-functional team, coordinating sprint execution and presenting the final solution to Executive Directors
[ CREDENTIALS ]
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
CLF-C02 · Expires Jun 2028
IBM DevOps & Software Engineering
IBM
15-Course Professional Certificate
Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals
Databricks
Expires Aug 2027
[ PROJECTS ]
The Portfolio
6 projects shipped · 3 in production · ∞ ideas in the pipeline
Financial NER Analyzer
LIVEProduction-ready document classifier with custom entity recognition for transaction amounts, dates, and account numbers. Fine-tuned DistilBERT on 116K+ tokens achieving 98% accuracy.
Stock Sentiment Dashboard
LIVEEnd-to-end ML pipeline serving 50+ users with real-time sentiment analysis from Reddit and Finnhub. Ensemble NLP inference achieving 78% accuracy with CloudWatch health monitoring.
FIN-ance
LIVECross-platform payment and expense-tracking app with ML-based spending forecasts (90% accuracy). Django REST API handling 1,000+ daily requests with OAuth 2.0 and iOS WidgetKit client.
Quant-Options-Engine
LIVEFrom-scratch options pricing engine implementing Black-Scholes Greeks, 50K-path Monte Carlo GBM simulation with antithetic variance reduction, and a Brent's method IV solver across live options chains via yfinance/FRED. FastAPI backend serving a React dashboard with real-time Greeks sliders and a theoretical vs. market mispricing chart.
Portfolio V3
WIPThis site — finance terminal aesthetic with live market ticker, animated chart, command palette (⌘K), and real-time S&P/DOW/NASDAQ data.
Pomodoro
OPEN SOURCEMinimalist focus timer implementing the Pomodoro technique with session tracking and customizable work/break intervals.
// live data
S&P 500 Heatmap
Real-time market performance by sector — block size by market cap, color by % change today.
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— Warren Buffett