# Arnav Shirodkar > AI Application Engineer | Musician Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/arnavshirodkar NY-based engineer building scalable AI applications and infrastructure on Azure. Especially interested in the applications of AI in finance, sustainable tech, cloud computing, and audio technology. I also hold a degree in music performance and have toured across three cities in China with GRAMMY-winning composer Tan Dun. I enjoy blending my software work with musc - I've written algorithmically generated compositions with Python and Max/MSP and trained a transformer model to be a real-time improvisational partner. Currently building Flexonome - The world's first programmable metronome for ultimate practice freedom. Deeply passionate about social impact and accessible education and volunteered with the Bard Prison Initiative for 3 years, teaching computer science to incarcerated students in maximum security prisons. Let’s connect ## Work Experience ### AI Engineer @ Nimble Gravity Jan 2025 – Present Transitioned to Nimble Gravity through its acquisition of Fog Solutions ### AI Application Engineer @ Fog Solutions Jan 2025 – Present ### Assoc. AI Application Engineer @ Fog Solutions Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 ### AI App Engineer Intern @ Fog Solutions Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | United States ### Software Engineer @ Tona.ai Jan 2024 – Present | United States ### Research Software Engineer @ Bard College Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States Project accessible https://aiice.shinyapps.io/AiiCE/ Lead developer for research conducted with Prof. Valerie Barr and NSF-funded Alliance for Identity Inclusive Computing Education (AIICE). We've built a web app to visualize and analyze cohort-level trends in degree completions for intersectional identities across all U.S. Title-IV institutions over 23 years, handling 50M+ data points across 20 categories. Built with Shiny framework and Selenium ### Computer Science Tutor @ Bard College Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States Served as an in-class tutor for over 50 students at Bard College in fundamental CS classes (Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures, etc.), leading pre-exam review sessions as well as 1-on-1 tutoring for struggling students. ### Computer Science Tutor @ Bard Prison Initiative Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | United States Some of the most fulfilling work I've ever done - taught Computer Science weekly for incarcerated students enrolled in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) at Fishkill Correctional Facility. Created custom assignments in Java/Processing for outdated operating systems and IDEs, Gathered resources for a self-study CS curriculum, and organized access to core CS textbooks (Eg. Algorithms by Sedgewick) to help develop proficiency in programming fundamentals, Data Structures and Algorithms ### Software Engineer Internship @ Morningstar Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States - Improved and deployed Data Quality Tests for research and quant teams by working directly with team leaders, within Morningstar's custom Data Quality Framework - Won Morningstar's summer tech intern case study competition in a team of 4, building a web-app to test for indicators of overconfidence as a form of investor bias - Contributed to the open-source Great Expectations framework by building support for pairwise data column testing with SQLAlchemy - Leveraged various AWS services and deployed a new pipeline for automated critical test failure reporting with Splunk On-Call ### iOS Engineer Intern @ Soundbrenner Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berlin, Germany - Spearheaded the proposal of a new chromatic tuner for Soundbrenner's "The Metronome" iOS application, after analyzing user demographics and community forums, taking charge of all early development on this feature. - Designed and implemented a robust, reactive, object-oriented tuner UI using iOS storyboards and implemented real-time pitch detection via signal autocorrelation using the iOS core audio framework, maintaining backward compatibility with iOS 7.0 and above for all existing customers. ### Junior Software Developer @ Musiio by SoundCloud Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Singapore / Remote - Built a full-stack dashboard with React and SQLAlchemy to track song submissions for Musiio's involvement in Vans’s “Musicians Wanted” competition, conducted across 13 countries. - Worked directly with AI team leads to define meaningful categories, and collect training data for Musiio's Mood Classifier (V2) - Delivered multiple proof-on-concept projects to clients, directly contributing to Musiio's early revenue. Improved POC delivery times by 30 % by optimizing internal Python scripts with caching and multithreading - Built an scheduled Rest-API test suite with Postman to find and detect critical bugs in API infrastructure ### National Service Inspector @ Singapore Police Force Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Training Command - Home Team Academy - Served as Company Commander of Alpha Company, Senior Officer Training Wing. - Handled planning and coordination, training, discipline, and safety protocol for the ~350 Senior Officer Trainees residing in Alpha Company. - Selected for the Commander’s Individual Award for outstanding service. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Percussion Performance (Double Degree) Bard College Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 ### Singapore-Cambridge GCE A Levels National Junior College (NJC) Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arnav-shirodkar - Website: https://arnavkar.github.io/portfolio/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/arnavshirodkar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arnavshirodkar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01