👋 Hi, I'm Monika!

I'm a Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience in Full Stack Development and Android Development.
I enjoy building scalable applications and recently have been focusing on integrating AI into real-world products.

🔥 What I'm Working On

• Solving Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) problems
• Building full-stack applications using React & Node.js
• Developing AI-powered applications (semantic search, resume analysis tools)
• Exploring backend optimization and scalable systems

🤖 AI & GenAI Focus

• Built AI projects using sentence-transformers (Hugging Face) for semantic search
• Developed a Resume ↔ Job Description Matcher using embeddings + cosine similarity
• Learning and applying:
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Vector Databases & Embeddings
  • Prompt Engineering & LLM APIs
• Exploring Agentic AI workflows and tools

📚 What I'm Learning

• Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP)
• DevOps & CI/CD pipelines
• Scalability & distributed systems
• Generative AI architecture and applications

🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages:
Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin

Frontend:
React, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Tailwind

Backend:
Node.js, Express, Spring Boot, FastAPI

Databases:
MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Supabase

AI/ML:
Hugging Face, Sentence Transformers, Vector Similarity (Cosine)

Cloud & DevOps:
AWS, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Jenkins

🚀 Featured Projects

• 🔍 AI Resume Analyzer
  Resume ↔ Job Description matcher using embeddings and semantic similarity

• 🧳 Travel Diaries (Full Stack App)
  Forum-style app with posts, comments, and user interactions

💡 Goals

• Build production-ready AI-powered applications
• Strengthen system design and backend architecture skills
• Contribute to open-source and real-world impactful projects

📫 Let's Connect

• 🌐 Portfolio: https://monika-ravindran.vercel.app/
• 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/monika-ravindran

✨ Always learning, always building!