# Ramya Durvasula

> Product Engineer at Partiful

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ramya

## Work Experience
### Product Engineer @ Partiful
Jan 2022 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Building something new! Joined the team as the first engineer and full-time hire after the founding team. Since then, Partiful has been featured in The New York Times and The Atlantic, and referred to by Mashable as one of "10 trends that changed the Internet in 2022"

### Graduate Researcher, Computer Assisted Programming Group @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Applied knowledge of program synthesis, natural language processing, and user experience to develop Nalini: An interactive tool for automatic SQL query generation from natural language inputs. Thesis research supervised by Prof. Armando Solar-Lezama

### Backend Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
Contributed to critical backend infrastructure on Foundry's operational modeling team.

### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States
Developed custom tools and workflows to support claim recoupment and provider negotiations for a Fortune 100 health insurance company. Gained experience with SparkSQL and distributed systems and traveled regularly to rapidly iterate with clients.

### Data Scientist / Backend Software Engineer @ Aavia
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Developed and operationalized the model to interpret sensor data for Aavia's patent-pending IoT birth control pill sleeve; contributed cross-functionally to product design, strategy, branding, and user relations at a five-employee MIT-backed startup.

### Undergraduate Researcher, Computation and Biology Group @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Applied advanced geometry and machine learning to embed terms from the Gene Ontology database into hyperbolic space.

### Full Stack Developer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California, United States
Developed a dashboard for legal documents for the Payments Infrastructure team, using TypeScript + Java.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Lauffenburger Laboratory, MIT Department of Biological Engineering
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Characterized anticancer drug response mechanisms; gained hands-on experience with data wrangling and semi-supervised machine learning approaches.

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Hughes Network Systems
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Germantown, MD
Designed and implemented a patented ML approach to estimate performance metrics for satellite internet service. First intern in the Advanced Development Group.

### Research Scholar, Research Science Institute @ Research Science Institute (RSI)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Summer Researcher, Atomic Force Microscopy Laboratory @ University of Maryland
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | College Park, Maryland, United States

### Summer Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering @ University of Maryland
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | University of Maryland


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science (6-3), Mathematics (18)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Montgomery Blair High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ramya-durvasula

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Last updated: 2026-03-20