Hi, I'm

Dhanush Chinivar

Full-stack & AI Engineer

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5+Projects
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Dhanush Chinivar
Dhanush Chinivar
Dhanush Chinivar

About me

Building things
that think.

I'm a Full Stack and AI engineer in my final semester at Deakin University, with over three years of industry experience building real-world software. At my core, I'm an extremely curious learner who enjoys breaking things down and building them back better.

I care deeply about craft: writing clean, maintainable code, designing systems that scale, and making architectural decisions that hold up over time. My work has spanned the full stack, from agentic LLM workflows and RAG pipelines to consumer-facing SaaS products used by real users. I'm especially interested in building AI systems that earn trust by being genuinely useful.

Outside of work, you'll find me at the gym, out hiking around Melbourne, or exploring new cafés and cuisines. I enjoy traveling and discovering new cities, or catching something at the cinema. I'm also a big dog person. If I get distracted mid-conversation by a golden retriever, that's entirely on brand.

Career experience

Experience that shipped.

Head Teacher

Code CampMelbourne, AU
Sep 2025 – Present
  • Lead classroom delivery for Ignite and AI Camp programs, teaching programming fundamentals and AI concepts to students through 20+ hours of hands-on, project-based learning.
  • Manage a team of teaching assistants across multi-day camps, coordinating session planning, student progress tracking, and end-of-camp project showcases.

Application Developer Intern

NubevestMelbourne, AU
Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
  • Conceptualised and developed custom CRM systems and NDIS-focused web applications for small businesses, increasing user retention by 50% and significantly lowering bounce rates.
  • Redesigned client-facing UIs across 3+ web products, improving page load and user experience, and led beta review sessions with 5+ cross-functional stakeholders to align feedback and streamline delivery.

Software Engineer I

Microchip Technology Inc.Bengaluru, India
Aug 2022 – Jun 2024
  • Delivered end-to-end plugin libraries for 10+ 16-bit dsPIC devices using an evolutionary prototyping SDLC, owning the full lifecycle from UI design and backend integration to testing, CI/CD (Jenkins), and beta release.
  • Sole developer of the ADC module, building the GUI, backend data handling, and test suites, and delivering a customer-ready beta within 6 weeks.
  • Collaborated with framework engineers and hardware stakeholders to define requirements, propose design solutions, and present validated prototypes.
  • Revamped UIs for key modules (ADC, Pin Manager, PTG), driving a 200% increase in engagement across products with 300+ weekly downloads.
  • Automated batch workflows, cutting manual processing time by 85% and saving 15+ engineering hours per week.

Software Engineer Intern

Microchip Technology Inc.Bengaluru, India
Jan 2022 – Jul 2022
  • Resolved 15+ bugs and implemented feature enhancements under tight deadlines, ensuring readiness for a major device release.
  • Gained hands-on expertise in algorithm design, debugging, code reviews, unit testing, and technical documentation within a production engineering environment.

Projects

Selected work, laid out clean.

01

AI Business Intelligence Agent

"Small business owners drown in spreadsheets, Notion pages, and inboxes then still can't answer 'which product made me the most money last quarter?' AI BI Agent changes that. Ask a plain English question, and a four-agent LangGraph pipeline (Data → Analysis → Insight → Action) pulls live data from Google Sheets, Notion, and Gmail via MCP, reasons across all of it, and delivers a real answer not a dashboard you have to decode yourself. Every Monday at 8am, n8n fires an automated report before you've had your coffee."

PythonLangGraphFastAPIMCPn8nNext.jsDocker
02

Multimodal RAG

Code

"Most RAG pipelines treat images as an afterthought convert them to captions, lose half the detail, and call it multimodal. This system skips the middleman entirely. By embedding both PDF text and images into CLIP's shared vector space, a plain text question can retrieve the exact chart, diagram, or figure it's asking about no captions, no information loss. Claude then reasons over the retrieved text and visuals together to produce answers that actually reflect what's on the page."

PythonFastAPIStreamlitCLIPQdrantClaudePyMuPDFBGE
03

Role-Aware RAG Chatbot

Code

"Imagine dumping your entire company knowledge base into a chatbot, then realising any employee can now ask it to summarise the CFO's salary review or pull a confidential security audit. Role-Aware RAG Chatbot kills that risk it semantically routes every query to the right knowledge domain (finance, HR, engineering, marketing), then hard-checks the user's role permissions before a single token is returned. Right data for the right role. A clean 403 for everyone else."

FastAPINext.jsTypeScriptPythonQdrantGroqSentenceTransformersTailwindCSS
04

MealsForge

"Imagine tracking your macros manually every week, writing grocery lists by hand, and still blowing your budget by Wednesday. MealsForge eliminates that chaos an AI that designs your personalised weekly plan, auto-builds your shopping list aisle-by-aisle, and keeps your streak alive with adherence analytics and nutritional nudges, all behind a frictionless subscription."

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismaClerkStripeOpenAI
05

Rallify

"Tracking stocks manually, missing price swings, and reading generic market news that has nothing to do with your portfolio. Rallify fixes that a real-time stock platform with live candlestick dashboards, custom price-alert thresholds, and an AI Daily Digest that hits your inbox every morning with a personalised market summary built from your own watchlist."

Next.jsTypeScriptMongoDBBetter AuthFinnhubGeminiInngestResend

Certifications

Credentials & courses.

awsCloudPractitionerFOUNDATIONAL

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Issued May 2025·Expires May 2028
AWS CloudCloud ComputingCloud ServicesAWS CertificationCloud Platform
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CompTIASec+CERTIFIED

CompTIA Security+ ce Certification

CompTIA

Issued Feb 2025·Expires Feb 2028
ID: COMP001022721616
Network SecurityCryptographyThreat DetectionRisk ManagementFirewall ConfigData Security
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Writing

Thoughts & writeups.

Medium·Apr 2026·5 min read

How I Built a Multimodal RAG System That Reads Charts and Images Using CLIP

Standard RAG pipelines ignore visual content entirely. Here's how I used CLIP's shared vector space to embed both text and images — so a plain English question can retrieve the exact chart or diagram it's asking about.

AILLMAgentic RAG

Get in touch

Let's work together.

Open to full-time and internship roles in full-stack or ML/AI engineering. Reach out on any platform below.