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Hello! I'm a product-minded engineer based in the Bay Area. At IBM, I build and design internal tools used across the organization. Outside of that, I work with small businesses on AI integrations that fit how they operate, and I'm also developing Mirra: a travel app that generates personalized itineraries based on how you actually want to experience a place. I like work where understanding the problem deeply and communicating it clearly matter as much as building the solution.

Anika Bhatnagar

IBM

AI Solutions

AI Solutions

Mirra

Mirra

Experience

2025 — Present

UI Developer · IBM

San Jose, CA

Shipping UI improvements to internal developer support tooling. Co-leading a ground-up redesign of IBM's Fyre, consolidating multiple legacy tools into a single unified interface, giving hundreds of IBMers ease of use and time savings. Observed support functions, pitched, and pushed several new features into our ticketing platform that reduced average triage time by 45%.

2026 — Present

Founder & Builder · Mirra

Personal Project

Mirra is an AI-powered travel platform that turns unstructured user input into fully mapped, personalized day-by-day itineraries. I designed a two-step generation pipeline: one stage assembles a master list of places with neighborhood context, the other arranges them into geographically coherent daily routes. Under the hood, the system orchestrates multiple models (Claude, GPT, and Gemini) with RAG and pgvector for retrieval, handling routing logic, real-time place data, and itinerary formatting. The goal was to replicate how I actually plan trips: pulling from trusted sources like Travel + Leisure and Eater, checking the vibe on social media, and layering in recommendations from friends and locals, all compressed into one tool.

April 2026

Custom Staff Portal · Optimum Vision & Eye Care

Palo Alto, CA · Freelance

Internal operations portal for a neuro-optometry practice, built to stop staff from constantly interrupting the doctor for routine decisions. Core features: interactive decision flowcharts for insurance verification and patient triage, an escalation system that captures unanswered questions and folds the answers back into a searchable knowledge base, and an integrated task manager for assigning and tracking work across the practice. Used daily by ~12 staff across front desk, technicians, and therapists.

2025

Web Developer · Kismet Matchmaking

Palo Alto, CA · Contract

Partnered with the founder on product strategy and roadmap; designed, developed, and launched the marketing website from concept through deployment. Translated a premium matchmaking brand into a polished web presence, owning the full stack from visual design and copy architecture to build and launch. Delivered a site that reflects the positioning of the service and gives the founder a credible foundation for client acquisition.

2024

Technical Product Intern · Chobani

New York, NY

Identified a bottleneck in the data team's manual labeling workflow and built an internal tool to fix it, cutting labeling time by over 50%. Integrated Snowflake and OpenAI API to create a consolidated pipeline with direct data access and AI-assisted labeling, replacing a fragmented process with one the team actually used.

2023

Prompt Engineer Intern · MathGPT.ai / YouWeb Incubator

Palo Alto, CA

Contributed to early-stage development of MathGPT, an AI math tutor recognized by Forbes. Engineered 20+ algorithms expanding problem-solving coverage 10×.

Education

2025

B.S. Computer Science, Minor in English

Loyola Marymount University

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Anika Bhatnagar