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    "description": "The personal portfolio of Dhruvkumar Patel — Data Scientist Intern at Myntra, Graduate Researcher at IIIT Delhi's MIDAS Lab, with expertise in machine learning, multimodal AI, and full-stack development.",
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            "url": "https://stackdhruv.com/blog/advanced-anpr-details",
            "title": "Build Process: Advanced ANPR & Face Recognition for KAVACH-23",
            "summary": "A behind-the-scenes look at our national finalist project for the KAVACH-23 Cybersecurity Hackathon, covering data collection with local police, developing a high-accuracy YOLOv8 model, and building a cross-platform mobile app.",
            "date_modified": "2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z",
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            "title": "Building Idempotent Feature Pipelines in Databricks",
            "summary": "A practical pattern for snapshot-based, idempotent feature pipelines in Databricks — how to structure Delta tables so reruns never corrupt your training data.",
            "date_modified": "2026-05-10T00:00:00.000Z",
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            "url": "https://stackdhruv.com/blog/deathstar-benchmark",
            "title": "Benchmarking the Death Star: A Deep Dive into Microservices Performance",
            "summary": "An inside look at our course project where we deployed, benchmarked, and monitored a complex microservices application on Docker Swarm and Kubernetes to understand real-world performance trade-offs.",
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                "Prometheus",
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            "url": "https://stackdhruv.com/blog/driver-material-ldrp",
            "title": "From Chaos to Centralized: The Story of Drive Material LDRP",
            "summary": "How a simple hobby project to organize scattered class notes became an essential tool for thousands of students, achieving over 3,000 visits in its first week and a top Google ranking.",
            "date_modified": "2025-05-22T00:00:00.000Z",
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            "title": "MCP Agents for ML Experiment Automation: A Practical Pattern",
            "summary": "How to use Model Context Protocol (MCP) agents to automate ML experiment workflows across Databricks, GitHub, and Grafana — turning repetitive experiment cycles into a single prompt.",
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            "url": "https://stackdhruv.com/blog/mental-health-meme-classification",
            "title": "Classifying Mental Health in Memes: A Multimodal Approach",
            "summary": "A deep dive into our NLP course project where we used Vision-Language Models to classify signs of anxiety and depression in internet memes, blending humor with serious analysis.",
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            "title": "Build Process: Student Dropout Analysis",
            "summary": "A detailed breakdown of our award-winning project at the SSIP-22 State Level Hackathon, from data collection and dashboarding to predictive modeling and an IEEE publication.",
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