I build the systems that stay up, and the apps that run on them.
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An isolated challenge box for every competitor.Weekly CTF → 20+ isolated containersWhich outages drain tests can predict.15+ tests + SEVs → Drain test ROIFour microservices, deployed end to end on AWS.Starter stubs → 50+ learners deployingProduct photos in. Catalog metadata out.Item images → Validated tags, half the effortPrecise drawing under your fingertip.Canvas touch → Magnified, for 1M+ users
CybOrg at USC
Infrastructure Tech Lead, TACTICS
Sep 2026 - Present, Los Angeles, CA
Executed a platform migration across GCP environments to sustain weekly CTF events, managing Kubernetes infrastructure and Traefik ingress routing to dynamically spin up isolated challenge containers for 20+ competitors.
20+Competitors per weekly CTF
GCP
Kubernetes
Traefik
Meta
Production Engineer Intern
May 2026 - Aug 2026, Bellevue, WA
Streamlined six-week drain test scheduling across Meta's products and services, cutting planning time from 1 day to 2 hours, by deploying a Python LLM agent adopted by the Disaster Recovery (DR) team.
Preempted service failures during drain tests by publishing daily forecasts of at-risk services and failure modes, giving service owners a 7-day advance notification window.
Quantified drain test ROI across 15+ historical tests for the DR team by designing an evaluation framework that correlated SEV root causes with risk telemetry to isolate novel failure modes.
Drain test planning time: 1 day to 2 hours
was 1 day
now 2 hours
7 daysAdvance warning for service owners
Python
LLM agents
Risk telemetry
Crio.Do
Product Engineer Intern
Jan 2025 - Jul 2025, Bengaluru, India
Delivered an end-to-end AWS deployment curriculum for 50+ learners by building starter stubs, reference solutions and Docker Compose setups across EC2 and Lambda for a four-microservice app.
50+Learners taught to deploy on AWS4Microservices in the reference app
AWS EC2
AWS Lambda
Docker Compose
ANB Solutions
Software Engineering Intern
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024, Remote
Automated e-commerce product cataloging, reducing manual tagging effort by 50%, by deploying a multimodal pipeline using a Llama 3 vision model to extract and validate structured metadata from item images.
Manual tagging effort: 100% to 50%
was 100%
now 50%
Llama 3 Vision
Python
Multimodal pipelines
Google Summer of Code
Software Contributor @ Catrobat
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022, Remote
Enhanced drawing precision across 13 canvas tools, shipped to production for 1M+ users, by implementing an interactive canvas magnifier with dynamic coordinate mapping and viewport positioning.
Prevented UI regressions across an Android app with 1M+ downloads by building reusable UI test helpers and 4 Espresso E2E tests validating visibility and placement.
1M+Users reached in production13Canvas tools made more precise