Ameya Ranade – Resume

Experience

Software Engineer at Intellect Design Arena

July 2025 – Current • NJ, USA

At IntellectAI, I started out on Xponent, an underwriting workbench used by brokers and MGAs in commercial insurance. I spent my first months building features to 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 shipped several of these workflows end-to-end, from early design to tools underwriters now work with daily, and that cut how long it takes them to process an insurance policy.

These days I work entirely on Magic Submission, our AI-driven pipeline for ingesting broker submissions. My focus there is more client-facing - shipping client-specific customizations, production fixes, and internal tooling alongside owning the product's production reliability. When Magic Submission goes down, submissions pile up and clients 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 underexplored: in news articles, which few entities actually matter? So we built ELAPSE (Joint Entity Linking and Salience in One Model), a system that detects, disambiguates, and scores the salience of these “core” entities and eventually feeds 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.

Software Engineer at Autire

June 2024 – Dec 2024 • TX, USA

I joined as one of the earliest engineers at Autire to build SpecGenie, an AI-powered automation product to streamline EPC workflows. For EPC teams, manually generating and validating dozens of specifications is pure overhead: slow, error-prone, and painfully repetitive. Our product collapsed that entire design cycle from 1-2 weeks of back-and-forth to a few hours of automated processing and human review, letting teams move faster from design freezing to fabrication and ultimately accelerating project schedules.

I built tons of features and the core extraction pipeline that let EPC teams upload dense, unstructured piping specifications and receive structured enterprise data back; validated, cross-referenced, and accurate to 98%+ at the field level. On the other end, a transformation engine I built fed that data into downstream 3D design tools for bulk ingestion, cutting out roughly 95% of the manual data entry the team used to do by hand.

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 Automatic Short Answer Grading, a system that uses embeddings and ensemble models to push benchmark performance on the Mohler dataset by a meaningful margin. I implemented custom spell correction, experimented with cosine similarity variants, and trained models to replace graders.

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. I worked on Node.js services to implement features like chat, moderation, session control and lots more.

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)

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

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

Awards and Honors

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