Rahil Verma

Education

Duke University – B.S.E Biomedical Engineering, B.S. Computer Science Aug 2022 – May 2026

Y Combinator AI Startup School June 2025

Neo Scholar Finalist July 2025 – Present

• VC fellowship (<1% acceptance rate) for entrepreneurial and product-minded students

Certifications: Advanced ML Algorithms • Google Cloud Professional ML Engineer

Accomplishments: Melissa and Doug Entrepreneur (5k), Duke Startup Showcase Finalist (1k), 36 ACT

Experience

Amazon – Software Development Engineer Intern May 2025 – Aug 2025

• Worked on Region Build Quality, tracking AWS service readiness using health checks in region deployments
• Identified scaling issues in state management system causing ~3% of tests to drop at peak load (~20M/hour)
• Rebuilt efficient state management system using CloudWatch, increasing scalability and cutting costs by ~8%

Auxiom AI – Founder, CEO (Repo) (News) (Testflight) Dec 2024 – Present

• Full stack AI-native platform breaking unstructured legislative documents into policy-level timelines
• Delivering personalized weekly AI generated political podcasts and articles to 400+ weekly active users
• Vision to become central data store for fully transparent policy shifts in the US government

National Institutes of Health (NIH) – Data Engineer May 2024 – Aug 2025

• Investigated the role of cortical traveling waves in human attention and memory
• Built novel distributed (HPC) algorithm to detect traveling waves, boosting processing speed by 100x
• Presented work at Harvard NCRC and Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2025 as plenary speaker

National Institute for Standards and Technologies (NIST) – Research Fellow May 2023 – August 2023

• Utilized ANNs, data augmentation, and active learning to optimize the shelf-life of pharmaceutical drugs

Leadership

Duke Applied Machine Learning Group – Head of Data Science Jan 2024 – Present

• Built semantic search for the Duke course finder using RAG and sentiment analysis, >2000 users
• Developed MLOps cloud engineer course for member training program, delivered to 200+ students
• Attracted collaborations with 10+ YC-backed early-stage startups

CS201 Data Structures and Algorithms (Duke) – Head Teaching Assistant Aug 2023 – May 2024

• Led a discussion section and weekly office hours on fundamental Object-Oriented principles

Projects

Terra Buddy – Offline Outdoor Companion | Repo 2 | Video May 2025

• A backpacking trip planner complete with route navigation, progress tracking, and AI-based decisions
• Hosts a local Llama 3B parameter model for multimodal AI assistance on a local mobile device

Full Stack ML Loan Assistant | Video Apr 2025

• Analyzes any bank statement to help loan underwriters determine the fitness of a loan applicant

Technical Skills