Overview
Work History
Education
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Darsh Poddar

Plano,Texas

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

AI Sales and Product Developer

UrbanPiper
Dallas, Texas
05.2025 - 08.2025
  • Sold Voice AI solutions to businesses, driving revenue growth and market presence.
  • Integrated AI functionalities into user interface for enhanced customer experience.
  • Conducted extensive revenue calculations to support product pitching efforts.
  • Tested Voice AI in beta phase, identifying potential hallucination issues and addressing them.

High School Intern Lead

Intelligent Security Lab, UT Dallas
06.2024 - 08.2024
  • Conducted research to analyze software defects in C/C++ with LLMs
  • Trained RNNs and Word2Vec models learning data analysis, preprocessing, and model fine-tuning
  • Worked alongside PhD students and learnt about security in academia
  • Co-authored paper: Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection ... arxiv.org/abs/2410.00249
  • Co-authored paper: When AI Meets Code Analysis: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10918233/.

President

Business Professionals of America
  • Collaborate with 12 officers
  • Expanded members from 250 to 300 students
  • Increased social media presence
  • Fostered team collaboration with social events
  • Increased virtual national qualifiers from 2 to 11, Best TX school chapter
  • National Finalist in Web Application Team (6th place), 11th
  • National Finalist in Virtual Cybersecurity/Digital Forensics (2nd place), 10th
  • National Qualifier in Computer Networking, 10th

President (Founder)

Cybersecurity Club
  • Wrote about emerging cybersecurity threats reaching over 10,000 people
  • Blog website: cybersociety.me
  • Instagram: @cybersoci3ty
  • Prepped 90+ members for CyberPatriot and PicoCTF
  • Carnegie Mellon's PicoCTF Top 3%, 11th
  • CyberPatriot Gold (3rd in Texas), 10th

Education

High School Diploma -

Lebanon Trail High School
Frisco, Texas
05-2025

Coding Projects

  • SafetyHero, https://safetyhero.onrender.com/, Website Developer, Worked with a team coding a full-stack learning management system written in React TS and an ExpressJS backend implementing a PostgresSQL database, Approached Frisco ISD for website implementation into school curriculum, Developed cybersecurity awareness curriculum, GitHub: https://github.com/jeff-k-zhou/LearnX, 4, 10
  • GradeHub, https://gradehubfisd.netlify.app, Website Developer, Coded and wrote the database for a website written in React TS that displays and calculates GPA, grade changes, and transcript by web scraping, Utilized by students in my school district, Learned parsing techniques and data sorting, GitHub Database: https://github.com/drPod/GradeHub-ClassDB
  • IntelliSpend, https://intellispend.vercel.app/, Website Developer, Worked with a team coding a full-stack financial budgeting app written in React TS and a NodeJS backend with a Firebase DB utilizing the Plaid API for financial information and transactions, Submitted to Congressional App Challenge competition, Learned API security and quantitative data analysis techniques, Github: https://github.com/drPod/Intellispend

Timeline

AI Sales and Product Developer

UrbanPiper
05.2025 - 08.2025

High School Intern Lead

Intelligent Security Lab, UT Dallas
06.2024 - 08.2024

President

Business Professionals of America

President (Founder)

Cybersecurity Club

High School Diploma -

Lebanon Trail High School
Darsh Poddar