NAITIK MANDALIA
PHASE · THE UNIVERSE
turning chaos into schema

Naitik Mandalia

AI · DATA ENGINEER

A universe built from data. Every planet is a system I shipped.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
SCROLL TO ROAM THE UNIVERSE
Everything here orbits one foundation.
planet 01 · project

ChatGuardian

An AI-ethics tool that finds and flags bias in AI text generation.

PythonNLPJavaScriptBootstrapAI Ethics

Real-time monitoring and alerting catches harmful content as it's generated, while a harm-classification system sorts issues by type so they can be handled for compliance and safety. A feedback loop channels every flagged case back into the model, improving robustness with use — a guardrail sitting between an LLM and its users.

planet 02 · project

Histology Classifier

An end-to-end system classifying colon-cancer histology images.

TensorFlowKerasScikit-LearnCNN
→ 92.0% binary · 85.7% multiclass

Before modelling: duplicate detection, class-imbalance analysis and dimensionality reduction to understand the data and shut down leakage risks. Then multiple CNN architectures, heavy augmentation, and patient-level stratified splits — so accuracy holds on genuinely unseen patients, not just unseen images. Benchmarked independently against published results, with a hard look at limitations and what deployment would actually demand.

planet 03 · project

Cloud Platform

An online music-subscription application built across five AWS services.

EC2S3DynamoDBLambdaAPI Gateway

User authentication, registration and validation run against DynamoDB with backend logic guarding data integrity. Search and subscription features persist to storage built for reliability, with Lambda and API Gateway handling the request layer and S3 holding assets. Deployed and operated on an Apache web server on an Ubuntu EC2 instance — architecture, integration and system operations end to end.

planet 04 · project

Bayesian Estimator

Melbourne property prices, predicted with expert priors and honest uncertainty.

RJAGSMCMCBayesian
→ 95% credible intervals

A Bayesian linear regression in R and JAGS, fusing observed market data with expert-informed priors. MCMC sampling was designed and tuned across multiple chains, with convergence diagnostics and posterior estimates confirming the model could be trusted. Every prediction arrives as a distribution with 95% credible intervals — a defensible valuation that states its own uncertainty, rather than one black-box number.

forming · in progress

Paper to PDF

A filing cabinet walks in. One ordered PDF walks out.

Companies still pay people to digitise decades of paper by hand. This reads an unsorted stack, finds the page numbers wherever they were scribbled, understands dates however they were written — and rebuilds the document in order. How it does that is the interesting part.

PythonPyTorchOpenCVOCRHandwriting Recognition
in development
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forming · in progress

Tourism App

The places the search engines never suggest.

Not another ranked list of the same landmarks. It thinks in moods, not keywords — a night drive, a coast road, a mountain pass, a table worth dressing up for — and learns which ones are yours. The recommender behind it is where the real work lives.

PythonRecommender SystemsEmbeddingsGeospatial
in development
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forming · in progress

Curo Swipe

Swipe right on the outfit. Then wear it before you own it.

Catalogues become a deck of cards — left, right, learning your taste with every flick. Like something and it lands on you, fitted, ready to buy, keep, or show off. Making that fit look real is the hard problem, and it's the one being solved.

Computer VisionVirtual Try-OnRecommendersReact Native
in development
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the asteroid · experience

Where I've built.

A rock full of terminals — three roles, three systems. Step inside to read them.

the foundation · education

The Foundation

The bright core everything here orbits — where all of it began.

Master of Data Science (Professional) · RMIT · Melbourne · 20% merit scholarship
B.E. Computer Engineering · 85.5%
Data MiningApplied Bayesian StatisticsAlgorithms & AnalysisData Visualisation & Comm. The Data Science ProfessionalAdv. Programming for DSDatabase ConceptsData Wrangling Programming FundamentalsCase Studies in DSApplied AnalyticsPractical DS with Python Cloud ComputingComputational ML
create another planet with me

Bring the chaos.
I'll build the world.

Wherever your data is raw, unruly, or hard to trust — that's where I start.

naitikdm@gmail.comLINKEDINRÉSUMÉ
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work experience
inside the asteroid · three terminals
ark_web.sh
Ark Web
Web Designer / Developer
Jul 2020 — Aug 2022
Built responsive sites and interactive 3D web experiencesThree.js, WebGL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Figma, Photoshop. Converted designs to pixel-perfect, mobile-friendly pages and tuned performance.
freelance.sh
Naitik Mandalia (Sole Trader)
Freelance Data Engineer · Melbourne
Jun 2024 — Present
Data-engineering projects for small-business clients: Python/SQL ETL/ELT pipelines, Airflow orchestration, dbt models with testing, AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB), and Power BI dashboards — plus hands-on RAG work alongside senior engineers.
curu.sh
CURU App
Data Analytics Intern
Jul — Oct 2024 · Melbourne
Customer-feedback analytics, automated data collection & reporting, A/B testing, EDA, and web scraping to enrich datasets — Python, SQL, Power BI.