PEC CHANDIGARH · CLASS OF 2027
Saurabh Bansal
I'm a computer science undergrad who builds products and then finds out whether they actually work. I've interned at American Express and Xlscout, and I ship side projects to real users — usually my friends, who tell me the truth.
ABOUT
Who I am
I'm in the final stretch of a computer science degree at Punjab Engineering College, specialising in data science and graduating in 2027. Most of what I know about building products came from two internships and a handful of side projects I couldn't leave alone.
At American Express I spent six months on the Offers Diagnostics Scorecard — owning the KPI layer behind it, building a tool so teams outside analytics could get answers without waiting on an analyst, and replacing a manual mapping process with a Python pipeline. Before that, at Xlscout, I turned a translation workflow that ran through an engineer into a web app the authors could use themselves.
The rest of my time goes into building. A gym-accountability app my friends and I actually use, and a resume-tailoring tool I'm working on now. I like the part where you ship something, watch what people really do with it, and change it.
EXPERIENCE
Where I've worked
American Express
Product Development Intern
- Owned the KPI layer of the Offers Diagnostics Scorecard — around 60 metrics — and worked out which ones were worth automating first, based on how fiddly they were to calculate and how easily they went wrong.
- Built a GPT-based tool across four legacy data sources with the business rules baked in, so teams outside analytics could ask a plain-language question and get an answer that matched everyone else's.
- Replaced a manual merchant and account mapping process with a Python pipeline. It cut the cycle time by about 70%, and turned up 41 accounts nobody had mapped.
- Automated the monthly Business Review data cuts off the scorecard files and BigQuery, retiring several hours of Excel pivoting per cycle — for a review that goes up to the Group President, U.S. Consumer Services.
Xlscout
Data Scientist Intern
- Turned a manual translation workflow into a web application, so authors could submit and retrieve translations themselves instead of going through an engineer every time.
- Benchmarked four machine translation backends against human-verified patent content, found their strengths were language-dependent, and shipped per-job model selection so users could compare outputs for themselves.
- Rolled it out to more product teams, fixed the layout problems they reported, and kept refining the output until documents came out usable. It was still in active use when I handed it over.
PROJECTS
What I've built
auto-apply
A resume tool that reframes the experience you already have against a specific job description.
- You give it your full history once, and it reworks that evidence per job description instead of making you rewrite from scratch every time.
- The part I care about most is the gap analysis: it separates the qualifications you have but haven't written down from the ones you genuinely don't have, so the output stays honest and specific.
SweatPact
A gym-accountability app that puts real money on a weekly goal.
- My friends and I kept failing at informal check-ins, so I built the version with consequences: a weekly money stake on a shared goal, GPS check-ins verified server-side, and settling up inside the app.
- The real problem turned out to be remembering, not tapping. I replaced manual check-in with an iOS Shortcut that fires on arrival against a per-user webhook secret. Everyone set it up, and the app turned into somewhere people came back to read their own streak.
- 38 REST API routes, 52 Postgres migrations, and PostHog wired in so I could see what people were actually doing rather than what I assumed.
EDUCATION
Where I studied
B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering
Specialization in Data Science
CBSE Grade 12
SKILLS
What I work with
Product & Strategy
Data & Analytics
AI & LLMs
Software & Prototyping
Execution
INVOLVEMENT
Outside the coursework
PECFEST
Creative Management Team — Core Member
Led creative planning and execution on the core organising team for one of North India's largest college fests, coordinating cross-functional members under tight deadlines.
CONTACT
Get in touch
I'm looking for APM and product roles. Email is the fastest way to reach me.