Kunal Chugh

Experience

• AssociateCurrentBoston Consulting Group (BCG)·Full-time2026 — PresentChicago, Illinois, United States

  Advising business leaders across industries on AI strategy, commercialization, and growth

  • —Advising various F500 executives on corporate strategy & AI initiatives to help drive EBITDA growth and efficiency
  • —Architected an LLM pipeline to process 1M+ call records, extracting signals to target high-value AI agent use cases
  • —Authored product and technical requirements for an AI call center agent sized at $75M+ in cost & revenue impact
  • —Drove a 15% lift in LLM accuracy by building a quality control process to catch hallucinations and verify outputs
  • —Identified a 6% performance uplift by modeling call patterns across top/bottom agent quartiles to inform coaching
• Founding Software EngineerLaptis·Full-time2024 — 2026Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (Remote)

  Designed software tools to streamline patient access to trusted substance use treatment

  • —Co-patented a healthcare coordination system to streamline substance abuse treatment access for 5,000+ patients
  • —Led the initial Laptis core technology design on Google Cloud, ensuring system security and HIPAA compliance
  • —Boosted patient lead capture and treatment placement by 4× by replacing static voicemails with an AI voice assistant
  • —Accelerated data collection by 85% via deploying an AI call agent to gather bed availability at treatment centers
  • —Managed a team of 4 contractors to design and deploy key features for accurate patient data capture and distribution
• Senior Electronics Researcher, Haselton LaboratoryVanderbilt University·Part-time2022 — 2024Nashville, Tennessee, United States

  Built hardware and software tools to advance disease diagnostics research in low-resource environments

  • —Co-authored a research paper on designing a medical PCR instrument that diagnoses COVID-19 with 95% accuracy
  • —Developed a scalable Python application that processed genetic data 3× faster than traditional manual workflows
  • —Reduced control system costs by 60% through spearheading hardware and software optimizations in a medical device
• Electrical EngineerStryker·Internship2024Portage, Michigan, United States

  Created new Emergency Care medical products within the Patient Transportation and Accessories team

  • —Optimized and refined 3 Emergency Care products, spanning patient transportation and vital sign measurements
  • —Managed weekly meetings with 6 cross-functional team members on engineering updates and future project planning
  • —Improved non-invasive blood pressure module functionality by 25% with new sensor and microcontroller additions
• Computer EngineerMedtronic·Internship2023Mounds View, Minnesota, United States

  Tested and refined pacemakers within the Cardiac Rhythm Management group

  • —Designed and tested 5 different next-generation pacemaker leads within the Cardiac Rhythm Management group
  • —Increased testing efficiency by 30% by proposing and implementing new testing procedures using LabView software
  • —Saved $4,000 in equipment costs by repurposing old equipment to create new industrial torque testing device designs

Education

• Vanderbilt UniversityB.E. — Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Minor in Computer ScienceGraduated May 2025Nashville, TN·3.972 GPA · Magna Cum LaudeChancellor's Scholar (<1% acceptance) — full-tuition merit scholarship awarded for leadership, character, and collaboration.
  • —Lead Electrical Technician — Making & Design Space
  • —President — Vanderbilt Cricket Club
  • —Vice President — Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
  • —Vice President — AEMB Biomedical Honor Society
  • —Hardware & Software Lead — Engineering Without Borders

Skills

Strategy & Leadership

• Project Management
• Market & Competitive Analysis
• Executive Comms & Board Decks

Analytics & Modeling

• Excel (Financial Modeling, VBA)
• Data Visualization (Tableau, Power BI)
• SQL
• MATLAB

Data, AI & Cloud

• Python (Pandas, PyTorch, LangChain)
• AI Tools (Claude Code, n8n)
• Cloud Infra (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Programming

• Frontend (React/Next, JavaScript, HTML/CSS)
• Backend (Node/Express, Django, MongoDB)
• Git

Engineering & Design

• Printed Circuit Boards (Altium)
• 3D Modeling (SOLIDWORKS)
• Embedded Systems (C++)