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Kaush Mendonca

Education

▸ University of California, Santa Cruz (September 2023 - Present)

▹ Major: Computer Science B.S.

▹ Involvement: Tech4Good, Fish Rap Live!, Newman Club, University Orchestra

▹ Awards: Dean's List Honors

▸ Redlands High School (August 2019 - June 2023)

▹ Involvement: Chamber Strings Orchestra (Concertmaster, 2021-2023), JV Swim (Captain, 2023)

▹ Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction, CSF Lifetime Member & 100% Honors Recipient, Redlands Rotary Club Benjamin J. Rabe Scholarship, Bobby Kaura Award

Skills

▸ Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, HTML/CSS

▸ Libraries/Frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Graphiti, NLTK, Pandas, PyTorch

▸ Tools: Git (Github/Gitlab), Bash/Linux CLI, Vim, VS Code, Python Notebooks, Neo4j

▸ Soft Skills: Public Speaking, Communication, Collaboration, Customer Service

Research Experience

▸ Tech4Good @ UCSC (January 2026 - Present)

▹ Roles:

▸ Full-Time Summer Researcher (June. 2026)

▸ Community RAG Developer (Mar. 2026)

▸ GenAI Lab Member (Jan. 2026)

▹ Projects:

▸ Slugpath (2026)

▹ Skills: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), OpenWebUI, Prompt Engineering, Prompt Workflows

▸ Neuromorphic Computing Group (January 2024 - March 2025)

▹ Projects:

▸ Using snnTorch to predict stock market data (2025)

▸ Training snnTorch framework on DVSLip dataset (2024)

▹ Skills: Building Machine Learning Models, Google Colab, Collaboration

▸ Undergraduate Research on Active vs. Passive Learning (March 2024 - June 2024)

▹ Projects:

▸ Using ANN models to find the outcomes of active vs passive teaching methods (2024)

Work Experience

▸ Learning Technologies Consultant (November 2024 - Present)

▹ Company: UCSC Information Technology Services

▹ City: Santa Cruz, CA

▹ Skills: Communication (Slack, Email), Customer Service, Computer instruction, Troubleshooting Hardware/Software

▸ Lifeguard/Swim Instructor (June 2022 - August 2024)

▹ Companies: Redlands Swim Team, The Amazing Kid Company

▹ City: Redlands, CA || Los Angeles, CA

▹ Skills: Customer Service, Instruction