Ameya Ranade

Experience

Software Engineer at Intellect Design Arena

July 2025 – Current • NJ, USA

  • At IntellectAI, I work on Xponent, an underwriting workbench used by brokers and MGAs in commercial insurance. Most of my day is spent building the systems that automate what underwriters used to do manually: compliance checks, risk scoring, premium calculations, and the long tail of rules that come with Commercial, Specialty, and E&S lines. I've shipped several core workflows end-to-end, from early design conversations to tools that underwriters now depend on every day, and that arc has been the most satisfying part of the job.
  • I also own production reliability for Magic Submission, our AI-driven pipeline for ingesting broker submissions, where I split my time between shipping new features and bug fixes for the product and owning its production reliability. When Magic Submission goes down, submissions pile up and brokers notice quickly, so uptime isn't optional.

    • Graduate Student Researcher at Apple

    Feb 2025 – June 2025 • Remote

  • In collaboration with Apple, I'm exploring a question that sounds simple but is deceptively tricky: when you read a long article, what are the few entities that actually matter? My work has revolved around building a system that identifies and disambiguates these “core” entities, evenutally building an indexing pipeline for Apple's downstream tasks like search, summarization and more.
  • I'm mentored by Wenlong Zhao and we collaborated closely with Min Li and Saloni Potdar, whose guidance helped shape the project’s direction. Wenlong fundamentally changed how I think about research: how to frame problems, cut through noise, and design experiments that actually reveal something. A lot of the system we built came from those conversations.
  • We’re now refining the ideas and preparing an updated version for ACL 2026 conference.

    • Software Engineer at Autire

    June 2024 – Dec 2024 • TX, USA

  • I joined as one of the earliest engineers at a small stealth startup building SpecGenie, an AI-powered automation platform to streamline EPC workflows. For EPC teams, manually generating and validating dozens of specification and catalog sheets is pure overhead: slow, error-prone, and painfully repetitive. Our product collapsed that entire design cycle from a week of back-and-forth work to under an hour of automated processing and human review, letting teams move faster from design freezing to fabrication and ultimately accelerating project schedules. I spent most of my time designing systems that made that possible.
  • I built 10+ end-to-end features and the core behind our pipeline that let EPC teams upload dense, unstructured piping specs and receive structured enterprise data back validated, cross-referenced, and ready for bulk ingestion!
  • We partnered with a Fortune 500 energy major, global energy companies in Abu Dhabi, and integrated with Hexagon, a key player in 3D plant design software. Working this closely with domain experts taught me just how much value emerges when you combine niche industrial data with well-designed AI systems.

    • ML Research Intern at Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (CMInDS)

    Jan 2022 – July 2022 • Mumbai, India

  • At CMInDS, I worked on the very human problem of grading short answers. I built an Automatic Short Answer Grading system using stacked embeddings and ensemble models and pushed benchmark performance on the Mohler dataset by a meaningful margin. I implemented custom spell correction, experimented with cosine similarity variants, and trained per-question models that captured nuance better than a general-purpose model could.

    • Software Engineer Intern at LokaVidya Technologies

    July 2021 – Jan 2022 • Mumbai, India

  • I helped build LokaVidya Meet, a video conferencing platform tailored for educational institutions. My work ranged from stitching together Node.js services with BigBlueButton APIs to implementing core meeting features like chat, moderation, and session control.

    • Education

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

    2023 — 2025

    M.S. in Computer Science

    University of Mumbai

    2019 — 2023

    B.Tech in Information Technology with a Minors in Management

    Leadership Roles and Initiatives:

    Chairperson of Computer Society of India, S.P.I.T chapter

    • Led a team of 20+, raising $6k+ for 9 tech events including the S.P.I.T Hackathon (150+ teams)
    CSI team at S.P.I.T

    Vice-Chairperson, Oculus S.P.I.T

    • Managed 100+ members, raised $10k+, and coordinated operations for 5000+ attendees

    Awards and Honors

    • State Scholarship Examination: 9th in Maharashtra, 4th Grade (2011)
    • Pravinya Mathematics Examination: 1st in Maharashtra (2012)
    • Homi Bhabha Examination: Silver Medalist, 6th Grade (2013)
    • International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO): Gold Medalist, 9th Grade (2016)