Darrel Danadyaksa Poli

Darrel Danadyaksa Poli

AI Research Intern @ NVIDIA | AI Engineer @ Meeting.ai | Final-Year CS @ UI

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Curriculum Vitae

Darrel Danadyaksa Poli • Software Engineer | AI Engineer | AI Researcher
Depok, Indonesia  |  darrel.danadyaksa19@gmail.com

Summary

Final Year Computer Science student with strong expertise across Software Engineering, Backend Architecture, and Artificial Intelligence. Experienced in AI research at NVIDIA, production speech model distillation at Meeting.ai, building scalable web and mobile applications (Django, Go, Laravel, Flutter), and leading software engineering teams.

Education

University of Indonesia — Depok, Indonesia

Undergraduate Computer Science (Aug 2022 – Aug 2026)

  • Focus Areas: Software Engineering, Web & Mobile Development, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Algorithms & Complexity.
  • Academic Mentorship: Teaching Assistant for AI and Data Science Introductory Course (2026), Calculus 1 (Short Semester 2026, Regular & International 2023–2024), Software Engineering Project (2025), Operating Systems (2025), and Calculus 2 (2024).
  • Student Psychological Support: Peer Counselor at Curhat Sama Panda, supporting student mental health at Faculty of Computer Science.

AI Research & Engineering Experience

NVIDIA — AI Research Intern
Remote • Jan 2025 – Jun 2025
  • Benchmarked Novel Architectures: Evaluated Non-Transformer sequence model architectures (RWKV) against standard Transformers for formal regular language recognition tasks, delivering comparative insights to senior research supervisors.
  • Sequence Architecture Analysis: Investigated structural representations and formal language capacity across Transformer, RNN, LSTM, and GRU models.
  • Research Dissemination: Conducted monthly technical presentations detailing empirical findings, loss convergence dynamics, and theoretical trade-offs to guide architectural research directions.
NVIDIA Research RWKV Transformers Formal Languages PyTorch
Meeting.ai — AI Engineer Intern
Jakarta, Indonesia • Jul 2025 – Dec 2025
  • ASR Performance Stress-Testing: Benchmarked Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) pipelines under high concurrency (10+ simultaneous sessions) to isolate latency bottlenecks and ensure deployment stability.
  • Speaker Verification Optimization: Compression-optimized a Speaker Verification model using knowledge distillation, significantly reducing parameter footprint while maintaining accuracy and achieving faster inference throughput.
  • Active Learning Pipeline: Architected a user-in-the-loop correction mechanism within the Speaker Verification pipeline to dynamically resolve clustering ambiguities and continuously improve downstream model accuracy.
Intergalactic Science Kingdom — AI Engineer & Back End Engineer (Volunteer)
Remote • Jan 2026 – Jul 2026
  • Marie Chan Full-Stack Architecture: Architected and deployed Marie Chan, an interactive AI system combining Go (Golang) and Django backends for real-time API performance and backend stability.
  • Agentic AI & BDD/TDD Workflows: Applied Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to guide and validate software engineering workflows powered by Agentic AI.
  • LLM Pipeline Orchestration: Integrated OpenRouter API for dynamic multi-model LLM routing, optimizing inference latency, context window management, and speech synthesis pipelines.
Indonesia AI x OMDENA Forest Fire Project — AI & Data Science Contributor
Indonesia • Aug 2022 – Sep 2022
  • Data Engineering: Curated, preprocessed, and normalized multi-source environmental datasets to enhance training data quality for forest fire risk prediction models.
  • Model Fine-Tuning: Fine-tuned predictive algorithms to maximize early detection accuracy and support proactive community safety initiatives.
Gemastik 2023 — BERT Clickbait Classification Researcher
Indonesia • Jul 2023 – Oct 2023
  • Transformer Fine-Tuning: Fine-tuned a BERT-based transformer model on Indonesian news and textual datasets to detect, classify, and filter clickbait headlines.
  • Indonesian NLP & Tokenization: Implemented specialized Indonesian text tokenization, custom text pre-processing, and hyperparameter optimization for high-accuracy text classification.

Volunteering & Leadership Experience

Candidate College — Back End Developer (Co-Head of Web Dev)
Indonesia • Jun 2024 – Oct 2024
  • RESTful API & Database Engineering: Developed and maintained server-side logic, databases, and RESTful APIs using Laravel, collaborating with front-end teams and stakeholders to ensure high performance.
  • Database Modeling & Architecture: Created Entity-Relationship (EER) diagrams and database models aligned with business needs, enforcing clean code practices, design patterns, and scalable software architecture principles.
  • API Documentation & Leadership: Led Swagger integration for automated API documentation as Co-Head of the Website Development Division, improving API accessibility for internal and external teams.
  • DevOps & Testing: Implemented CI/CD pipelines and robust test suites to ensure code quality, maintainability, and streamlined deployments.
SIKAP — Software Engineer
Indonesia • Aug 2025 – Nov 2025
  • Cross-Platform Engineering: Engineered a cross-platform anti-bullying information system using Django for the backend and Flutter for the mobile interface, ensuring secure and anonymous reporting.
  • UAT & User-Centered Design: Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across dozens of Indonesian schools, utilizing direct user feedback to refine features and improve system stability following ADDIE and UCD principles.
Student Executive Board (BEM UI) — Coordinator, Information Technology Division
Depok, Indonesia • Jul 2025 – Jan 2026
  • Engineering Leadership: Directed and reviewed software development workflows, applying industry-standard software engineering methodologies and architectural best practices.
  • Technical Guidance & Quality Control: Provided hands-on technical guidance on system architecture, maintainability, and quality control mechanisms for ongoing IT projects across multiple divisions.
Rentang Jiwa — Peer Counselor
Indonesia • Jan 2024 – Jun 2024
  • Offered structured peer counseling and psychoeducation using counseling psychology best practices to build client rapport and facilitate psychological support.

Projects & Achievements

  • SafetyPin Startup (2025): Co-founded SafetyPin, a social security startup leveraging technology and intelligent reporting systems to enhance personal safety solutions.
  • Multimodal Emotion Detection (Satria Data 2025): Engineered an end-to-end emotion detection system combining BERT for textual feature extraction, Whisper for speech representations, and VAD for noise filtering.
  • Illegal Parking CV System (Gemastik 2024): Designed and trained an object detection pipeline to identify illegal parking violations from surveillance feeds.
  • BERT Clickbait Classification (Gemastik 2023): Fine-tuned a BERT-based transformer model on Indonesian textual datasets to detect clickbait headlines.
  • Garuda Hacks 4.0 Honorable Mention (2023): Awarded Honorable Mention for building Tak Sendiri, a conversational AI agent for preliminary depression screening.
  • Certified Peer Counselor Training (2023): Completed certified training in peer counseling and psychological support.

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant for AI and Data Science Introductory Course • University of Indonesia (2026)
  • Teaching Assistant for Calculus 1 (Short Semester) • University of Indonesia (2026)
  • Teaching Assistant for Software Engineering Project • University of Indonesia (2025)
  • Teaching Assistant for Operating Systems • University of Indonesia (2025)
  • Teaching Assistant for Calculus 1 (Regular & International) • University of Indonesia (2023 – 2024)
  • Teaching Assistant for Calculus 2 • University of Indonesia (2024)

Technical Skills & Expertise

  • Software Engineering & Backend: RESTful APIs, System Architecture, Database Design (EER), Microservices, Agentic AI Workflows, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD, DevOps.
  • Programming Languages: Python, Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Rust, Dart, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
  • Frameworks & Libraries: Django, Spring Boot, Laravel, Flutter, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, HuggingFace, OpenCV, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, NumPy.
  • Developer Tools & Cloud: Docker, Git, GCP, Supabase, Postman, Linux/Unix, OpenRouter LLM APIs.
  • Soft Skills & Leadership: Software Engineering Leadership, Code Review, Mentoring, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Agile/Scrum.