Prahar Modi

Applied LLM/RAG and production AI focus: Prahar has recent hands-on experience designing and deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems and LLM-based tooling for real-world use—building Agentic RAG chatbots, Streamlit interfaces, and summarization pipelines while interconnecting LlamaIndex, LangChain, ChromaDB and cloud infra (AWS/GCP). This places him squarely at the intersection of applied NLP/LLMs and pragmatic engineering. praharmodi+2

Embedded systems and IoT practitioner: his earlier work and public projects show strong embedded/IoT skills (ESP/NodeMCU, sensors, FreeRTOS, firmware in C/C++), evidenced by contributions to smarthealthcare (Devpost), Project Kaatru (air-quality IoT at IIT Madras), and GitHub activity discussing Amazon FreeRTOS problems. devpost+2

Founder‑operator and student leader: Prahar co-founded Pegasus Automation (handled embedded firmware, cloud features, and fundraising), served as a director of the company per corporate filings, and held leadership roles at DA‑IICT (Electronics Hobby Centre convener, IEEE SIG tutor), reflecting entrepreneurial initiative and student‑organization leadership. zaubacorp+2

Teaching and academic engagement: while completing an MS in Data Science at UMD, Prahar has combined teaching (Graduate TA) and departmental engineering work (AI/ML Student Software Engineer at UMD DIT), showing experience communicating technical material and building campus-facing production tools. praharmodi