Profile
I am a versatile professional with expertise in AI/ML, full-stack development, and data engineering, complemented by hands-on experience in networking and cloud-based systems.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, Illinois
January 2024 - May 2025 Master of Computer Science 3.95/4.0
Osmania University - Hyderabad, India
July 2017 - July 2021 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering 9.10/10.0
Experience
STS Lab | UIUC
Urbana, Illinois Software Engineer, AI Threat Intelligence Researcher October 2024 - Present
- Engineered large-scale threat detection pipelines using ML models, improving detection rates by 59.64% for Tiresias and 51.45% for DeepCASE
- Optimized DeepLog-based anomaly detection using AWS SageMaker, reducing memory usage by 89% and achieving a 1.8x processing speedup through multi-threading techniques
HYCO1, Inc.
Houston, Texas Software Development Engineer, AI/ML Intern June 2024 - August 2024
- Developed an AI chatbot to serve as a virtual employee, enabling asynchronous customer query resolution based on documentation, using Gemini 1.5 Pro, LangChain, Amazon OpenSearch, and Python
- Implemented a serverless backend with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and S3 for scalable deployment and seamless vector-based document retrieval
- Built predictive models using LSTM architectures for time-series analysis to enhance catalyst lifetime prediction by 20%
Oracle India Private Limited
Hyderabad, India Software Engineer August 2021 - December 2023
- Played a key role in the development of applications in Oracle NetSuite - a CRM + ERP SaaS platform
- Developed across the whole software development life cycle in fast-paced Agile environments for Smart Cycle Count and Rebate Management SuiteApps using TypeScript, React, and SQL, driving an 80% increase in user interaction
- Navigated complex customer communications with strong verbal skills, wrote clear documentation and unit tests for the applications
- Integrated functionalities that enhanced inventory counting tasks by 80% for the inventory manager
- Implemented data ingestion pipelines and analytical queries, driving a 60% increase in user engagement and guiding product development
Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
Bangalore, India Software Engineer, Networking Intern January 2021 - July 2021
- Led a team in migrating the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Trace Analyzer Tool to a cloud platform, turning product ideas into engineering solutions, using Big Data Broker (BDB), streamlining log analysis and error detection processes
- Architectured backend modules in JavaScript from PHP for integration with cloud frameworks, optimizing tool performance for thousands of users
- Deployed MongoDB database for data management and analysis, enabling more efficient processing of error logs and user behavior insights
Vision ISoftech India Pvt. Ltd
Remote Data Engineer May 2020 - December 2020
- Played a key role in the development of a large-scale sentiment analysis system using Apache Spark, implementing tokenization pipelines to process thousands of customer interaction records
- Drove the creation of interactive Tableau dashboards, enabling actionable insights from sentiment data
- Collaborated on the data mesh project, helping to migrate and transform data from Google Sheets to BigQuery using dbt, saving 4 hours in weekly reporting processes
Skills
Languages
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- TypeScript
- C
- C++
- Shell Scripting
Machine Learning
- Classification
- Regression
- NLP
- LLM
- Neural Networks
- Large Language Models (LLM)
- State Space Models (SSM)
- Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP)
LLM Algorithms
- LSTM
- Transformers
- Chain-of-Thought
- FLAN
- LoRA
- RLHF
- ReAct
- Distillation
- RAG systems
Web Development
- HTML
- CSS
- Node.js
- React.js
- Django
Databases
- MySQL
- Oracle
- MongoDB Atlas
- Neo4j
Cloud
- AWS EC2
- AWS S3
- IAM
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Platform
- Terraform
CI/CD & DevOps
- Docker
- Git
- TeamCity
- SonarQube
- Jest
- GitHub Actions
- Bitbucket
- Perforce
Libraries & Tools
- Numpy
- Pandas
- Mathplotlib
- Scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- LangChain
- HuggingFace
- Kaggle datasets