Somya
Lunavat
I build machine learning systems, developer platforms and tools that make engineers faster.
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About
I build AI that does real work: agents that replace manual workflows, memory that makes coding assistants sharper, and platforms that thousands of engineers ship on.
Selected work
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Tool
Cortex
Persistent memory for Claude Code. Hybrid retrieval (BM25, vectors and graph hops) plus automatic knowledge extraction cut context tokens by 65%.
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ML
Thermal-Adaptive Protein Predictor
A temperature-conditioned transformer for protein sequences, reaching 92% accuracy on amino acid prediction across 1.5M+ samples.
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Web
WorkForCause
A platform that helps organizations manage their volunteers and interns. Won the US Congressional App Challenge.
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iOS
FertiQueer
An iOS app supporting LGBTQ+ people facing fertility challenges. Led it from wireframes to deployment and demoed it at mental health conferences nationally.
Experience
- May to Aug 2026
- State FarmSoftware engineering intern
Helped architect a unified developer portal consolidating 3 legacy platforms for 60k+ engineers.
- 2025 to 2026
- Axora ServicesAI solutions developer
Founded an AI solutions company that ships agentic automations for insurance and enterprise clients.
- 2023 to 2025
- NXTPodsMachine learning engineer intern
Optimized insurance claims models and pipelines, cutting claim latency by 15%.
- 2022 to 2023
- Aliz Health AppsSoftware developer intern
Led FertiQueer, an iOS app, from wireframes to launch and cut its load times by 25%.
- Certifications
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner, Claude Certified Architect (Foundations), Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification (Stanford University), Akuna Capital Options 101
Community
From 2016 to 2025 I volunteered with the Jain Center of Greater Boston. I led the Walk for Hunger, bringing 80+ people together to raise $5,000 for hunger relief, and put in 800+ service hours running coding workshops for 100+ students.
I also co-founded Fincademy, a financial literacy nonprofit that runs seminars at local centers and publishes personal finance guides, and was featured on The Professor Kev Show. Our team's pitch, Debtify, took second place at TiE Boston's 2023 Young Entrepreneurs competition.