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Hardik Saini

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Available · Summer & Fall 2026

Atlanta, GA · ET

Hey I'm
Hardik
Saini

Hardik Saini

I turn messy real-world workflows into systems people actually want to use — joining Mercedes-Benz USA this summer as an SAP & Innovation intern, operating research HPC with GSU's ARCTIC team, and shipping startup ideas through CreateX.

  • 01CS @ Georgia State
  • 02ARCTIC HPC team
  • 03Mercedes-Benz USA · Summer '26
  • 04Startup builder
  • Builder
  • CS @ Georgia State
  • ARCTIC HPC
  • Mercedes-Benz USA
  • CreateX
  • Genesis Spring Batch
  • AI · Cloud Enterprise
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Builder
  • CS @ Georgia State
  • ARCTIC HPC
  • Mercedes-Benz USA
  • CreateX
  • Genesis Spring Batch
  • AI · Cloud Enterprise
  • Atlanta, GA

◆ Featured · Summer 2026

Joining@ Mercedes-BenzUSA

Role

SAP & Innovation Intern

When

Summer 2026

Where

MBUSA HQ · Atlanta, GA

Joining the SAP & Innovation team to support enterprise integrations, internal tooling, and workflow automation that scales across business units — bridging engineering rigor with operational reality at a global automotive enterprise.

Selected Work

Things I've shipped.

Stockd screenshot

Backend Architect · Co-Founder

AI-powered inventory + ordering for restaurants.

Supabase (Postgres · Realtime · Auth · RLS)PostgreSQL Functions / RPCGoogle Gemini APIVanilla JSChart.js

01 / 05

Stockd

2026

An AI-powered inventory platform for restaurants. Real-time tracking on a transaction ledger, recipe/BOM-based ingredient usage, and a Gemini copilot operators can ask in plain English — "what's running low?", "what should I order this week?". Built for non-technical users, scaled for modern restaurant operations.

Live demo
RoomieManager screenshot

Founder · Full-stack

AI roommate manager for chores, bills, and the small stuff.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgresSupabaseOpenAI / Gemini

02 / 05

RoomieManager

2026

A lightweight roommate operating system. Splits chores fairly, tracks shared bills, and uses AI to nudge the right person at the right time so households stop fighting about whose turn it is. Designed mobile-first for the way people actually live together.

Live demo
TaskTrail screenshot

Founder · Full-stack

Personal workflow OS for builders.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgresTailwindOpenAI

03 / 05

TaskTrail

2026

A focused task and project tracker built for people who context-switch all day. Captures fast, organizes by intent (not just labels), and uses AI to surface what actually matters next. Less Notion overhead, more momentum.

Live demo
Speech Mate screenshot

Full-stack · AI

AI public speaking coach with multimodal feedback.

ReactTypeScriptViteJava 21Spring Boot 3

04 / 05

Speech Mate

Spring 2025

Full-stack speech coaching app. React + TypeScript + Vite frontend, Java 21 / Spring Boot 3 backend exposing REST APIs for generation, multimodal analysis, and TTS. Gemini endpoints ingest video, slides, and notes and return structured feedback — scores, filler counts, recommendations. OAuth 2.0 + Spring Security secures user sessions.

Live demo Source
Department Assistant screenshot

Full-stack · AI

GPT framework that turns department docs into virtual assistants.

PythonFlaskLangChainAzure

05 / 05

Department Assistant

Fall 2024

Built a scalable GPT framework with Python, Flask, LangChain, and Azure to deliver department-specific virtual assistants from uploaded resources — FAQs, policies, contacts. Departments upload their content; the assistant answers students automatically and learns as scenarios change.

Live demo

Experience

Where I'm building.

Enterprise systems, research HPC, and hands-on technical work — places where things have to actually work, every day.

  1. Summer 2026 · Incoming

    Atlanta, GA

    Featured

    Incoming SAP & Innovation Intern

    Joining MBUSA's SAP & Innovation team this summer to track SAP migration across business units and help implement innovation initiatives across departments.

    • Will track SAP migration efforts across teams at Mercedes-Benz USA HQ — coordinating timelines, dependencies, and rollout readiness.
    • Will support innovation initiatives across departments — process modernization, internal tooling, and workflow automation that scales across business units.
    • Bridging engineering rigor with operational reality at a global automotive enterprise.

  2. Jul 2025 — Present

    Atlanta, GA · Georgia State University

    DevOps / HPC Intern

    Helping operate GSU's Linux-based research HPC cluster serving 500+ faculty and student researchers.

    • Operate a Linux HPC cluster supporting 500+ researchers; help maintain 99.99% uptime through proactive monitoring and fast incident response.
    • Triage 50+ Slurm scheduling, file access, storage quota, and environment-module issues — improving job success rates and cutting wasted compute time.
    • Analyze storage and I/O performance for large research workloads; validate config changes for high-throughput data pipelines.
    • Help administer Globus Connect Server endpoints used for secure, terabyte-scale data transfers between GSU and partner institutions.
    • Provide backend setup and live support for research workshops and conferences — accounts, storage, compute access, demo environments.

  3. Summer 2026 Cohort

    Atlanta, GA

    Co-Founder / Product Engineer

    Building Stockd through Georgia Tech's CreateX Summer 2026 cohort — taking a UGAHacks XI NCR Voyix Challenge-winning prototype and turning it into an early-stage restaurant operations startup focused on inventory, forecasting, and practical AI.

    • Leading product and backend direction for an AI-powered restaurant inventory platform shaped through CreateX mentorship, customer discovery, restaurant demos, and real operator pain points.
    • Designing core workflows around itemized sales ingestion, BOM/recipe-based ingredient usage, inventory transactions, vendor receiving, and reorder recommendations.
    • Developing forecasting systems that translate historical sales patterns into ingredient-level demand predictions and "what should I order?" decisions for restaurant teams.
    • Exploring AI copilot features with Gemini/OpenAI-style tool calling so non-technical managers can ask inventory and ordering questions in natural language.
    • Reworking the hackathon MVP into a pilot-ready SaaS foundation with onboarding, secure Supabase/Postgres architecture, ingestion pipelines, and repeatable operator workflows.
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Want to learn more about me?

Programs, leadership, skills, education, and recognition — the longer story lives on a page of its own.

◆ Closing

Let's build something.

Open to internships, full-time conversations starting 2027, and serious side-projects. Reach out — I respond fast.

hardiksaini830@gmail.com

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