BeReal. Externship via ExternI build software projects while completing my graduate studies and gaining practical experience before launching my full-time career.
A selection of software projects and practical work that show the skills I am developing during my Master's program and early professional experiences.
Constructed stateful agentic platform that analyzes codebases for generating API/SDK documentation using GitHub MCP Server and repository-aware embeddings. Deployed natural language querying agent for Cloudflare Agents SDK, leveraging serverless edge compute, RAG pipelines, Durable Objects, Workers AI to support low-latency, secure inference at the edge.
Engineered micro-donation platform with Google OAuth, Stripe Connect, cron automations, JWT authentication that rounds up users’ everyday purchases and auto donates spare change to charities. Integrated real-time dashboards (Charts.js) and blockchain-backed ledger for transparent, secure crypto exchanges.
I build software projects while completing my graduate studies and gaining practical experience before launching my full-time career.
I am Himanshu Nimonkar, a Master's student in Computer Science at the University of California Davis. I have some work experience and I am building practical projects and skills as I prepare to officially start my career.
Externships
BeReal Product Management Externship
In progress
Experience
Software Engineering Intern
Cloudflare · May 2026 – September 2026
Software Engineering Intern
Talent Questor · June 2025 – August 2025
Graduate AI Engineer Intern
VIA Lab · January 2025 – June 2025
Full Stack Software Engineer Intern
DeepCytes Cyber Labs (UK) · June 2022 – June 2024
Education
University of California Davis
Master of Science in Computer Science · Class of 2027
K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, Honors in AI · Class of 2024
Skills
Constructed stateful agentic platform that analyzes codebases for generating API/SDK documentation using GitHub MCP Server and repository-aware embeddings. Deployed natural language querying agent for Cloudflare Agents SDK, leveraging serverless edge compute, RAG pipelines, Durable Objects, Workers AI to support low-latency, secure inference at the edge.
Engineered micro-donation platform with Google OAuth, Stripe Connect, cron automations, JWT authentication that rounds up users’ everyday purchases and auto donates spare change to charities. Integrated real-time dashboards (Charts.js) and blockchain-backed ledger for transparent, secure crypto exchanges.
Launched offline first voice AI copilot over phone calls for agricultural guidance with Vapi/Deepgram STT, FastAPI gateway, Supabase storage, Nginx handling intents, sessions and WebSockets over Cloudflare Tunnels, multithreaded Python asyncio Tool Orchestrator with Cloudflare Workers AI citation-backed reasoning engine, Morph LLM for reranking and smart routing. Prototyped telemetry HUD PWA for live field conditions, Google Earth Engine satellite imagery, pulling weather forecasts from OpenMeteo and research embeddings RAG pipelines backed by a ChromaDB vector store and containerized on Docker.
✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress
Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.
This externship examined product design choices used by social apps to support authentic user interaction while pursuing growth. The work involved benchmarking competitor engagement features and designing an original growth-oriented feature concept that reflected BeReal's emphasis on unfiltered connection. Deliverables documented comparative analysis and a feature proposal.
Below are the concrete outputs I produced during the externship, from platform selection and competitive benchmarking to a proposed product feature concept.
