Saurav Laxmikant
Welcome to my corner of the internet!
I am 4rd year undergraduate student at University of Waterloo, majoring in mechanical engineering with software/computing option.
I'm currently a software engineering intern at Replicant AI, former intern at Signode,
Tesla and a teaching assistant for first year engineeirng student at UWaterloo.
I love to ideate innovative and out-of-the-box solutions and being involved in a problem-solving environment makes me want to learn and keep up with newer technologies. Software engineering is a never-ending puzzle that I am passionately engaged in solving. I'm into all things tech and like to use code to create value and solve real-world problems that impact businesses and people.
When I'm not working, I like reading sports articles or pick up a book that I have been meaning to read.
Experience 💼
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING @ Replicant AI
(May 2022 – Present) · Replicant is building the world's first autonomous contact center that works out-of-the-box to solve customer problems over the phone using voice AI. I will be working on their core and ML platform.
Software Engineering @ Signode
(Sep 2021 - April 2022) · Led the development of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between ERP systems, OneDrive API and third party integrations such as SAP Ariba.
(Jan 2021 – April 2021) · Intern on the Continuous Improvement team. Architectured company wide REST API's using node's Express.js and GraphQL.
Teaching Assistant @ University Of Waterloo
(May 2020 – Sep 2020) · Teaching assistant for ME101, Introduction to Computing. Taught web development and programming fundamentals with C++, MATLAB and JavaScript.
Manufacturing Planner @ Tesla
(Sep 2019 – Dec 2019) · Intern on the Tesla's Battery manufacturing & Design Team, where I led the design and development ERP features such as MRP forecast using python and C++.
Front-End Web Developer @ Entrepreneurship Society
(May 2019 – Sep 2019) · Frontend development with React and TypeScript. User‑oriented visuals and UI features using Adobe Photoshop and Figma.
Dimension control quality engineer @ Tiercon
(Jan 2019 – May 2019) · Intern on the Quality Engineering and Design team. Performed dimensional validation using CMM and PC DMIS. Team lead for high-volume production and manufacturing.
Featured Projects 💻
Yelp-Camp Web Application
Crowd-sourced local campground review website, where users can see postings about different
campgrounds, what they're rated, comments and location using Google Maps API. Used Express.js and Node.js to create a client-facing website
View on GitHub. Created with Javascript, ExpressJs, MongoDB and a bunch of APIs.
Optimizing the Pathfinding Algorithm
Built python application for visualizing path‑finding and maze‑generation A* algorithm. Wrote a 10 page research on optimization of path‑finding. User draws complex wall barriers, initial
and final points. Nodes are traversed using optimized algorithm creating the purple path.
View on GitHub. Created with Python, Pygame module, OOP
Twitter Surveillance
A Twitter bot that stores real time tweet data closely related to vaccine hesitancy and labels every tweet by tokenizing sentences and analysing its sentiment through natural language processing. The labels are either positive, negative or neutral. I then used SVM supervised learning classifier to generate a plot for percent of vaccine hesitant tweets per day for unseen twitter data.
View on GitHub. Created with Python, Twitter API, NLP, scikit learn.
Game Development
Retro games such as space invaders, zombie land, lumberJack are some of my favorite memories from childhood. I have tried to recreate them using pygame and SFML C++ library. I have also developed Javascript games to better understand jQuery and DOM elements.
View on GitHub. Created with Python, C++, SFLM graphics, JavaScript.
Creative Web Development
While working for Entrepreneurship Society I created innovative designs for their Sponsorship
Packages, logos and website utilizing UI & UX principles. Developed user‑oriented visuals and UI features using ReactJs and RESTful routing. Integrated new interfaces with back‑end systems like NodeJs.
Created with JavaScript, ReactJs, Adobe Photoshop, Figma
