Year · 2024–presentBy Ayush Niroula
A comprehensive backend system for WiseAdmit admissions and student evaluation: AI-assisted scholarship recommendations, social profile signals, retention prediction, and OCR on transcripts and IDs. Includes student–university matchmaking, application workflow tracking, competitive intelligence, and integrations with messaging, Meta webhooks, and AWS EventBridge. Complemented by PostgreSQL schemas with Alembic migrations and OpenAPI-documented FastAPI services for long-lived, auditable APIs.
Highlights
- MongoDB vector-search and matching services that materially improved personalized university/program discovery and downstream funnel metrics
- Backend refactor of Lead Journey and Applications APIs (Node.js + FastAPI) tied to ~18% lift in student conversion
- Apify-based scraping pipelines with error handling and automated PDF reporting—automating on the order of ~90% of repetitive data entry
- OCR and document intelligence, scholarship recommendation, and real-time WebSockets/EventBridge hooks for operational visibility
Tech stack
Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL- Alembic
MongoDB- Motor
Redis
WebSockets
OpenAI
AWS S3
Apify