Open to SWE / ML internships · Summer 2026

Mahanyas Baira.

CS @ Colorado State building AI-first tools. ML research, hackathon wins, and systems that ship.

Fort Collins, Colorado·mahanyasbaira16@gmail.com

About

I build systems that ship, and research that holds up.

I’m a CS student at Colorado State splitting time between AI research at the AI-LEAF institute, systems engineering for the College of Engineering, and shipping AI-first web tools. I like problems where the right answer needs both a model and a deploy pipeline.

In the last year I’ve won two hackathons, been featured in The Rocky Mountain Collegian for phishing-awareness work, and shipped a research platform with sub-second semantic search over 1,000+ papers.

Degree

B.S. Computer Science

School

Colorado State University

Graduation

Dec 2027

Based in

Fort Collins, CO

Experience

Where I've shown up.

Systems, security, and research roles, each one measured in what shipped.

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Systems Software Engineer
·CSU Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Jan 2026 – Present · Part-time · On-site · Fort Collins, CO
Infrastructure, automation, and security posture for the college IT environment.
- Administered 1,200+ Active Directory accounts and 50+ Group Policies to harden security posture.
- Built Python audit scripts that raised account compliance by 30% across the college.
- Deployed 600+ Windows endpoints via SCCM imaging + MDT, cutting provisioning time by 40%.
- Automated 25+ recurring tasks with PowerShell and Python, freeing recurring sysadmin hours.
Active DirectoryGroup PolicyPythonPowerShellSCCMMDT
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IT Support Specialist
·Colorado State University · Morgan Library
Mar 2025 – Present · Part-time · On-site · Fort Collins, CO
Desktop support, imaging, and account management for a 24/7 research library environment.
- Operated Active Directory, PDQ Deploy, and Microsoft Entra ID for daily sysadmin workflows.
- Supported user account lifecycle, software deployment, and imaging across shared workstations.
- Partnered with the library IT team to improve ticket turnaround and service reliability.
Active DirectoryPDQ DeployEntra IDImagingTicketing
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Undergraduate Research Scholar · AI-LEAF
·AI-LEAF Institute
Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 · Research · Remote · Remote
Year-long NSF-backed scholars program applying AI to agriculture and forestry.
- Collaborated across universities to translate AI research into fact sheets and real-world apps.
- Strengthened remote sensing, data science, and science-communication toolkit.
- Mentored by graduate students and faculty driving AI-LEAF research threads.
Remote SensingData ScienceScience Communication
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Cyber Security Intern
·CSU Division of Information Technology
May 2025 – Dec 2025 · Internship · Hybrid · Fort Collins, CO
Vuln management, incident response, and security awareness across the CSU system.
- Executed vulnerability scans and triaged 200+ risks via Splunk, Nessus, Qualys, and Wireshark.
- Ran 350+ Nessus scans and co-led campus-wide phishing awareness; featured in The Rocky Mountain Collegian.
- Engineered Python and PowerShell automation for user management and detection pipelines.
SplunkNessusQualysWiresharkPythonPowerShellEntra ID
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AI/ML Research Intern
·Harvard University
Jun 2023 – Oct 2023 · Internship · Remote · Remote
Neural-network research mentored by Dr. Aleksandar Jevremović.
- Developed and optimized 3+ neural network models in Python, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
- Leveraged HPC clusters to cut model training time by 25%.
- Authored a 15-page research paper on sentiment analysis and opinion mining methodologies.
TensorFlowPyTorchPythonCNNHPCSentiment Analysis
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Design Tech & Robotics Captain · ICT Captain
·DRS International School
Aug 2022 – May 2024 · Full-time · On-site · Hyderabad, India
Led the school-wide robotics and ICT program with hands-on projects, workshops, and mentoring.
- Captained the Design Technology & Robotics Club, running hackathon-style builds and workshops.
- Directed ICT events end-to-end: stage tech, video production, and cross-grade tech support.
- Mentored juniors on programming, design, and robotics competitions.
LeadershipTeam ManagementGraphic DesignVideo EditingRobotics

Projects

Things I’ve built end-to-end.

Full-stack, ML, and VR, each one shipped with its own metric that matters.

NeuroSync

Multimodal brain-encoding model inspired by Meta AI’s TRIBE v2.

Research implementation that fuses video, audio, and text embeddings to predict fMRI responses across 1,000+ cortical parcels. Mirrors the TRIBE v2 architecture with a shared cross-modal transformer and per-subject adapters.

Cross-modal brain encoder matching TRIBE v2 on held-out subjects.

Multimodal encoding pipeline

Inputs
Video framesAudio waveformTranscripts
Modality encoders
ViT / CLIPWhisperText LLM
Fusion
Cross-modal transformer
Output
fMRI parcel predictions

PyTorchTransformersCLIPWhisperfMRIPython

HybridHerd

ML pipeline for precision-livestock classification.

Research project under AI-LEAF: multi-modal model fusing vision and sensor data to classify cattle behavior. Improved classification accuracy +20% over the baseline across 11,000+ sensor events.

+20% classification lift across 11,000+ events.

Fusion classifier

Sensors
Camera feedIMU + GPS
Feature extractors
ResNet featuresTime-series net
Fusion head
Late-fusion MLP
Output
Behavior class

PyTorchscikit-learnHugging FacePythonHPC

AgriVerse VR

Immersive VR training sim for agricultural workflows. 1st Place.

Won 1st Place at the CSU Engineering Innovation Challenge. Unity and Meta Quest experience that teaches precision-agriculture workflows through interactive VR scenarios built on real farm data.

1st Place at the CSU Engineering Innovation Challenge.

VR runtime

Data
Farm GISWeather API
Scene authoring
Blender assetsUnity scene graph
Simulation
Precision-ag scenarios
Headset
Meta Quest 3

UnityC#Meta QuestBlenderAI-LEAF Data

AI Form Builder

Describe a form in English, get a production-ready component.

Typescript-first form generator. A prompt describes intent, the LLM produces schema, Zod validation, and accessible React components with shadcn/ui, ready to drop into any Next.js app.

English prompt to typed, validated form in under 10 seconds.

Prompt to component pipeline

Input
Natural-language prompt
LLM planner
GPT schema planner
Code gen
Zod schemaReact + shadcn/ui
Output
Typed .tsx file

Next.jsTypeScriptOpenAIZodshadcn/ui

Employee Management App

Full-stack onboarding and HR workflows with role-based access.

Internal tool for managing employee records, role-based permissions (RBAC), and onboarding checklists. Drizzle ORM schema with audit trails and typed server actions.

Typed server actions, full audit trail, RBAC-first.

RBAC data flow

Client
Next.js UI
Server actions
Typed server action
Policy
RBAC guardAudit log
Data
Postgres + Drizzle

Next.jsTypeScriptDrizzle ORMPostgreSQLRBAC

Hackathon wins

First-place finishes.

Two hackathons, two first-place podiums, both with working demos judged on stage.

Mahanyas presenting at the Hack4Health podium with the Colorado flag.

Hack4Health 2026 · 2026 · Colorado State University

Hack4Health 2026 · Campus Safety Track

🏆 1st Place

Built a real-time phishing + scam detector for college students in 24 hours. Pitched on-stage to a judging panel; the work carried through to a Rocky Mountain Collegian feature on CSU-system cyber outreach.

PythonReactML Classifier

Team holding the oversized 1st-place check for AgriVerse VR.

CSU Engineering Innovation Challenge · 2025 · Colorado State University

AgriVerse VR · Engineering Innovation Challenge

🏆 1st Place

Led the build of an immersive VR training experience for precision agriculture on Meta Quest. Judged first out of 40+ teams across the College of Engineering.

UnityC#Meta QuestBlender

Press

Featured work.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian · 2025-09

CSU-system IT dept., staff, interns guard against student scams

Claire VanDeventer's feature on the CSU cybersecurity team's outreach to students on phishing and scams. I co-led campus-wide awareness as a CSU cyber intern.

Companion · PDF

Phishing blog: read the deep dive

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Technical

Stack I reach for.

Tools I’ve used in production, research, or graded coursework, not a buzzword wall.

Languages

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

Java

C++

SQL

PowerShell

Frameworks & Libraries

Next.js

React

Node.js

Tailwind CSS

Framer Motion

Drizzle ORMshadcn/ui

Data & Databases

PostgreSQL

Firebase

PandasNumPyPower BI

Cloud & DevOps

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Vercel

Docker

Git

GitHub Actions

AI / ML

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Hugging FaceGeminiOpenAI

IT & Security

Active DirectoryGroup PolicySCCMMDTNessusTenable.scSplunkBurp SuiteWiresharkEntra IDPDQ Deploy

Tools

Unity

Blender

Figma

Meta Quest SDKLinearJira

Certifications

Verified credentials.

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Cloud · Forage × AWS

Complete Guide to Power BI for Data Analysts

DevOps · PagerDuty / LinkedIn Learning

DevOps Professional Certificate

DevOps · LambdaTest

LambdaTest Test Automation Professional Certificate

ITSM · Atlassian

Atlassian IT Service Management (ITSM) Professional Certificate

Program · International Internship Program

International Internship Program

Community

Showing up off the clock.

Education · 2025-08 → Present

Computer Science Peer Mentor

CSU College of Natural Sciences

Mentor first- and second-year CS students on coursework, study habits, and career pathways.
Run weekly office hours alongside faculty and share tools, internship tips, and campus resources.

Social Services · 2022-10 → 2023-06

Director of IT, Interact Club

Rotary International · Interact

Ran the tech stack for a Rotary-sponsored service club: AV, registrations, and comms.
Led Cyber Safety workshops for kids under 10, teaching how to stay safe online with parents in the room.
Supported Book Donation Drive, Paper Collection, and adult literacy teaching programs.

At HackPrinceton, Princeton University — HackPrinceton · 2-day on-campus hackathon

Volunteering at the CSU AI Symposium — CSU AI Symposium · Microsoft & Accenture panel

GitHub live

What I’ve been pushing.

Pulled live from my public GitHub.

Top languages

Contributions · last 30 days

Let’s build something

Say hi, we’ll figure out the rest.

Best via email. I reply within a day, sooner if it’s about ML research, hackathons, or anything weird and ambitious.

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