Bhumika Gupta
Business Analytics & Mathematics @ University of Kansas
I enjoy tackling complex, data-heavy problems, particularly in the blockchain, fintech and entrepreneurial spaces.
Experience
Forward Deployed Software Engineer Intern
June 2026 - August 2026 • Merble • New York City, NY
- ▪Building 4 OAuth-based marketplace integrations for two major CRMs, replacing one-off manual setups with a scalable model.
- ▪Engineering a layoff signal pipeline reconciling federal WARN Act filings, improving distress detection across 8.7M+ worker records.
Data Engineering Intern
January 2026 - May 2026 • Just Food • Lawrence, KS
- ▪Led the redesign and deployment of the official website to improve user experience and digital presence.
- ▪Analyzed 50,000+ donor records using SQL and Excel to uncover trends for historical performance tracking.
Undergraduate Research Engineer
December 2025 - Present • Dr. Karthik Srinivasan, KU School of Business • Lawrence, KS
- ▪Co-authoring a journal submission to the Journal of Information Systems analyzing 777,902 human-preference observations across 362 LLMs.
- ▪Quantified Pareto concentration in frontier AI: 8 of 25 orgs produce elite-tier models, and 9 of 37 months drive 80% of rating progress.
Featured Projects
Full List of Projects
End-to-end blockchain-powered humanitarian payment pipeline on XRP Ledger, tokenizing fiat donations into RLUSD stablecoins with full transaction transparency from donation to disbursement. Gasless recipient wallets are dynamically provisioned per Humanitarian ID, with SMS-based fallback via Twilio for internet-blackout crisis zones.
End-to-end cross-chain cryptocurrency payment solution for point-of-sale and e-commerce, built as a “tap to pay” experience bridging traditional retail with decentralized finance. Includes a high-performance dual-chain settlement engine with automated backend reconciliation on the TRON network.
Awards & Honors
Kirkendall Ideation Awards
January 2025
🏆 1st PlaceJayhawk Discovery Challenge (Entrepreneurship)
December 2025
🏆 1st PlaceAnalytics Information Operations Case Competition
November 2025
🏆 1st PlaceManhattan University International Analytics Competition
May 2025
🏆 Best Poster Award