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
- Designed and deployed a serverless agentic AI using Python, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Google Gemini, achieving 95% sub-10s response times, to automate lead generation
- Reduced cold start latency by 40% by implementing provisioned concurrency and keep-alive ping mechanisms
- Led containerized deployment of the chatbot on DigitalOcean VPS using Docker Compose, enabling seamless scaling of backend and vector storage for enhanced reliability and maintainability
Oracle
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
- Delivered 10+ major features and 15+ secure production releases by designing and implementing real-time inventory counting flows using TypeScript, Node.js, and SQL
- Navigated complex customer communications with strong verbal skills, wrote clear documentation and unit tests for the applications
- Raised test coverage from 14% to 95% and improved code quality by integrating Jest, SonarQube, and TeamCity into the CI/CD pipeline
- Enhanced inventory visibility by 80% and engagement by 60% through dashboard KPIs and saved searches using React + Redux Framework, enabling real-time insights across multi-location operations
Cisco Systems
Bangalore, India Software Engineer, Networking Intern January 2021 - July 2021
- Migrated a legacy log analytics tool in PHP to an internal cloud platform, by designing Python-based data pipelines and REST APIs to detect issues in 2GB+ daily network traces, reducing analysis time by 40%
- Architected MongoDB schema with time-series indexing and sharding from SQL, reducing query latency by 35% and improving data processing efficiency by 30%
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 & Frameworks
- HTML
- CSS
- Node.js
- React.js
- Django
- Flask
- FastAPI
Databases
- MySQL
- Oracle
- MongoDB Atlas
- Postgres
- Redis
Cloud
- AWS EC2
- AWS S3
- IAM
- AWS Lambda
- AWS CloudFormation
- 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