Education
Aug 2024 – Present
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, ILSep 2020 – May 2024
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Chennai, IndiaExperience
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
Software Apprenticeship (Part-time)
Canvendor
Chicago, IL (Remote)Explored application security fundamentals including vulnerability patterns (XSS, CSRF, SQL injection) and mitigation strategies through technical documentation
Evaluated security testing tools (OWASP ZAP) and implemented automated security checks in CI pipelines on Linux
Jun 2023 – Sep 2023
Summer Intern
Lumiq (Crisp Analytics Pvt Ltd)
Chennai, IndiaTranslated business requirements into optimized SQL queries and data pipeline specifications for analytics workflows
Automated recurring SQL-based data processing tasks, reducing manual effort by 40%
Performed data preparation and analysis using Python (Pandas, PySpark) for business intelligence reporting
Projects
Jan 2026 – May 2026
Distributed Object Storage System with Fault Tolerance
Fault-tolerant storage across distributed nodes with erasure coding & cryptographic integrity verification
Jan 2026 – May 2026
Medical Chatbot Strategy Comparison System
Benchmarked RAG vs. fine-tuned LLM strategies across 194k medical queries
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
Cloud-Based Document QA System using RAG on AWS
End-to-end document QA pipeline on AWS EMR/EC2/S3 with Spark-based delta indexing
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
Selective Language Modeling for Efficient LLM Training
Replicated NeurIPS 2024 findings on selective gradient training with theoretical analysis
Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
Interactive Handwritten Character Recognition System
Real-time character recognition system with interactive drawing interface
Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
Dataset Shift Analysis & Implementation
Analyzed and implemented mitigation strategies for covariate and label shift in ML pipelines
Aug 2024 – Dec 2024
Quizzify — Full-Stack Music Quiz Platform
Microservices music quiz app with Spotify OAuth, Playwright scraping, and Dockerized deployment
Technical Skills
Certifications
- Cloud Computing Foundations
- Containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- Microservices, Serverless Architecture, and OpenShift
- DevOps Fundamentals and Agile Practices
- Python for Data Science and AI Development
- Machine Learning with Apache Spark
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fundamentals
About
Graduate CS student building production-oriented ML systems, distributed data pipelines, and backend infrastructure. Seeking backend, ML engineering, or systems roles where I can contribute to scalable, production-grade platforms.
Beyond work: F1 • Soccer • Guitar • Video game tech • GPUs
