Sasha Cherian

About Me

Aspiring Software/AI Engineer, CS Recent Graduate, AWS Cloud & AI Practitioner Certified, have prior internship expierence, worked on web apps

Location

Sterling, VA
Education
    George Mason University
    August 2021 - May 2025
    degree
    Bachelor's
    major
    Computer Science
    coursework
    Artificial Intelligence
    Software Engineering
    Analysis of Algorithms
    Database Concepts
    Secure Programming and Systems
    Full Stack Web Development
    Linear Algebra
Work Experience
    Opfin AI
    Software/ML Engineering Intern
    Fairfax, MN, United States
    June 2025 - August 2025
    company
    Opfin AI
    title
    Software/ML Engineering Intern
    overview
    Developed an automated financial sentiment analysis system using OpenAI API and other news APIs to process 30+ daily headlines, achieving 67% positive sentiment detection accuracy for stock price prediction models. Built Python web scraping pipeline with requests library and JSON parsing to combine multiple financial news sources, reducing manual data collection time by 85% while feeding sentiment scores into XGBoost algorithms.
    George Mason University
    AI Research Assistant
    May 2024 - June 2024
    Applica Solutions
    Intern
    Manassas, VA, United States, 20113
    June 2023 - August 2023
Fun Fact

I have played badminton for 8 years and have competed in 20+ tournaments during my time in college!

Passion

I earned certifications that reflect my proficiency in Python and my ability to build and deploy AI solutions in cloud environments like AWS. I am enthusiastic about contributing to a team focused on innovative, data-driven projects and leveraging artificial intelligence to create real impact.

Skills
Languages
ChineseEnglishFrenchGermanJapaneseSpanish
Skills
AlgorithmsAmazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)Artificial IntelligenceBackendBackup DevicesCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Case StudiesCloud ComputingComputer ProgrammingCoordination SkillsC (Programming Language)Data AnalysisDatabase TheoryData CollectionData SecurityFiling SkillsFinancial Data AnalysisFlask (Web Framework)Full Stack DevelopmentGitHTMLInformation TechnologyJava (Programming Language)JavaScript (Programming Language)JSONKnowledge of FinanceLeadershipLinear AlgebraLinuxMetricsMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft WindowsNode.JsNumPyOracle ApplicationsPandasPcapPredictive ModelingPython (Programming Language)ReactJSR (Programming Language)Sentiment AnalysisSoftware EngineeringSQL DatabasesUser ExperienceWeb ApplicationsWeb ScrapingXgboost
Leadership
    GMU Tech4Good Club
    Project Manager
    February 2024 - November 2024
    GMU Badminton Club
    Secretary
    August 2022 - May 2025
Hobbies
Badminton
Github / Code
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cheriansasha(view my full github here)
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