# Dhruvil G. > Application Architecture, Design and Development | AI | Product Innovation and Development Mentor Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dhruvil I am a Ph.D. Computer Science student at Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. My research focus is creating stimuli using audio, video, and EEG. I work at Propel AI as an engineer (backend/frontend/infrastructure/ AI-ML). I like to mentor and teach people and students, and also help companies scale their products and services. I specialize in designing and developing applications, architecting systems, mentoring and coaching teams, and creating new concepts. In the last few years, I have collaborated with small businesses, growing startups, NPOs, independent companies, and students of all majors worldwide. I have worked with different startups, building and scaling their systems and technology, agnostically. I have worked as a coach and coordinator at New York Design Factory at Pace University, where I coached and mentored students on product development, design thinking, and collaboration with international teams and industries. My experience is diverse, unconventional, and non-linear, which adds to what I have to offer and how I can make an impact. I have worked as an individual contributor, in a team, and managed a team as well.. ## Work Experience ### Adjunct Professor @ Pace University - Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems Jan 2024 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Propel AI Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States Full-Stack development, architecture, infrastructure, NLP, machine learning, artificial intelligence, governance and security. ### Adjunct Professor @ Pace University Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area - Taught Web-design for Non-Profit Organizations where students partner up with local NPOs and build their websites following the process of design thinking. - Teaching Product Development Project to graduate and undergraduate students where they work in cross-functional international teams and develop a product using design thinking. - Advising undergraduate students for CS Independent study and honors thesis. Courses: - Intro to Coding, MS IS: Fall 2020, Fall 2021 - Computer Programming 2, CS: since Fall 2020 - Intro to Design Thinking and Innovation, CIS: Fall 2021, Fall 2024 - System Analysis and Design, IS: Spring 2022 - Product Development: since Fall 2017 - Enterprise Application Development: since Fall 2024 - Mobile Web Content Development: since Fall 2024 ### Graduate Assistant @ Pace University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area ### Mentor: Design Thinking, Tech and Product @ NYC Design Factory Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area - Coaching/mentoring cross-functional teams from Porto Design Factory, Warsaw Design Factory, and NYC Design Factory in innovation and product development using the process of Design Thinking. - Coaching and mentoring teams for Product Development Project with Aalto University, Finland, and Product Innovation Project, TU Graz, Austria. - Conducting product design hackathons with Design Factory Global Network (Rat Relay). - Hosting workshops for different technologies and methodologies. - Mentoring teams in product design and development - Designing design thinking workshops for teachers, university staff, and student communities. ### Principal Engineer @ Love Stories TV Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States - Application architecture and infrastructure, DevOps. - Django API development and enhancement. - React and NextJS-based frontend. - Redesigned and developed a new upload experience, which improved the upload rate. - Improved the performance and throughput of the site. - Assisted in infrastructure redesign. - Worked on SEO improvements and implementation, using schema.org specification. - Worked on efficiently integrating elastic search with the platform. - Data and content migration. ### Product Developer and Engineer @ Medmeme, LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York - Lead part of product development for a pharmaceutical data analytics product from discovery phase to design phase. - Lead part of planning and design of modernizing legacy products to increase usability and user retention of the product. - Advocated, designed and launched new features for legacy products to make it a better market fit and increase usability and simplicity. - Worked on the development of features and product I designed with the team on Angular, Python, PHP, Java and MSSQL. - Worked on setting up infrastructure using Ansible and Docker environments. ### Founder @ Innolitt LLC Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area - Worked with clients from different industries on product design and development. - Worked on digital marketing, project management, product management, timeline management, and building new relationships with prospective clients. - Designed and developed automation for building scalable infrastructure for applications. Plans were to make it open-source. ### Product Innovation Project - Lead Developer @ Infineon Technologies Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Graz, Austria (Remote from New York) - Researched, developed, and tested a pre-market product by Infineon for the transportation industry in collaboration with a cross-functional team in Austria. - Used the process of design thinking to ideate and innovate new use case scenarios. ### Graduate Assistant @ Pace University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York - Assisted in researching for syllabus of Data Science for CS graduates and Hybrid Web Development for undergraduate students. - Drafted tutorials for deploying a Django - PostgreSQL on Heroku. - Developed an app for student performance analysis in African Schools using Django, POSTGRES & Google Charts. - Assisted in managing a team of 25 students for Mobile Innovation to develop a project to connect mobile application users and developers in Senegal, Africa. Also assisted in designing and developing the mobile application( Ionic framework). - Researched and developed a simple implementation of LilyPad for wearable tech. - Designed and developed websites for various events. ### Student Aide @ Pace University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 - Tutored Grad and undergrad students for Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Database & Algorithms. - Developed a 3D model of Seidenberg in Unreal Engine for Oculus Rift DK2 & demoed at Pace Path Live. - Developed 3D motion capture using Kinnect and IPi studio to capture dance moves of high school students. Mentored five high school students to develop a jQuery mobile application for Billion Oyster Project for over a week. - Organized Google-IO 2015 meet and VR Ideation Pitch at Pace University in collaboration with NYC-GDG. ### Developer @ Pace University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area At Seidenberg School of CSIS - Developed PHP app to simulate the business environment, deployed it on cloud VPS & managed its Security. - Designed and developed reporting application for Sexual Harassment at Pace University in collaboration with Infor and their Mongoose framework & backend on the MEAN stack. - Developed a web app for user management and content for Summer Coding Camp to provide lessons and coding lessons to the students, deployed it on Heroku, and integrated it with the Auth0 (SSO) framework. - Developed Curriculum and Coding Exercises for high school students at STEM Collaboratory and taught HTML, JS, CSS, and Google Charts Data Visualization using a design thinking approach. Led a team of mentors for the camp and trained them for all lessons and activities. ### Student Assistant @ Pace University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 - Aided in research, literature searches, technical solutions, and maintaining resources library. - Conducted in-depth customizations to develop a website for the department. - Assisted in drafting the proposal for two new Ph.D. programs. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science Pace University ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Pace University ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computers Science & Engineering Nagpur University ### Master of Science - MS in Information Systems Engineering and Management Harrisburg University of Science and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dhruvgandhi - Website: https://dhruv.nyc - GitHub: https://github.com/dhruv857 - Website: https://propelmypr.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/dhruvil JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dhruvil/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23