EXPERIENCE

PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY

Building the future, one innovation at a time

Industry Experience

Staff Software Engineer (AI/ML)

Palo Alto Networks
June 2025 – Present
  • Working on Generative AI Copilots for business use cases.
  • Developing AI Agents and working closely with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

AI/ML Scientist Intern

SAP
May 2024 – May 2025
  • Developed LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems, optimizing agent coordination by 30%.
  • Implemented token utilization optimization with DSPy for functions with 100M+ parameters.
  • Utilized frameworks like Autogen and LangGraph to create scalable RAG solutions.

Software Engineer Intern (Spring)

Akamai Technologies
Jan 2023 – Jul 2023
  • Designed over 10 KPI SLA Grafana Dashboards to monitor traffic on OTTs, running efficient SQL queries via API.
  • Enhanced cloud provider system diagnostics by 12% with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana integrations.
  • Automated Kubernetes deployments using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and bash scripting.

Software Engineer Intern (Summer)

Akamai Technologies
Jun 2022 – Jul 2022
  • Architected a Parquet File Parser using Context-Free Grammars in C.
  • Leveraged concepts of Finite State Machines and Automata theory.

Data Science Intern

NeoDocto Inc.
Feb 2022 – Apr 2023
  • Analyzed trends and patterns in customer orders using advanced data analysis tools.
  • Examined 20+ datasets to deliver actionable insights to three departments.
  • Leveraged MySQL, R, BigQuery, Tableau, Python & Spark to build ETL pipelines.

Academic Experience

Graduate Assistant

Department of Computer Science, Penn State University
Aug 2023 – May 2025

Courses Taught:

  • CMPSC 311: Systems Programming
  • CMPSC 431: Database Management Systems
  • CMPSC 473: Operating Systems Design & Implementation
  • Facilitated office hours to assist students on Systems Programming, Database Systems & Operating Systems.
  • Incorporated Shell scripts to grade 30 students' coding assignment submissions on GitHub Classroom.
  • Drafted comprehensive question papers for Midterms & Final Exams, ensuring alignment with course objectives.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Department of Computer Science, Manipal Institute of Technology
Jan 2022 – Jun 2022
  • Developed and constructed CNN models to classify MRI Scans into 1 of 4 types of Brain Tumors.
  • Utilized ensemble learning methods aggregating various Neural Networks to reduce generalization errors.
  • Trained hyperparameters of classical models like VGG16 and performed a comparative analysis on metrics.
  • Research paper accepted to the 4th edition of International IEEE Bombay Section Signature Conference (IBSSC), 2022.

Volunteering

Volunteer

Rotaract Club of Manipal
Jan 2022 – Dec 2022
  • Completed 40 hours of social service as a part of CCP (Community Contact Program) over a span of 2 semesters.
  • Gained an understanding of humanitarian issues through social services and various youth exchange programs.