Professional Summary

Full stack engineer with 15+ years of experience building AgenticAI solutions and HPC clusters for LLM/ML training. Expert in LLMOps pipelines, high-availability model serving, and RESTful API development. Proven track record in Kubernetes (CKA), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Ansible), and managing software development from inception to production.

Education

M.Sc in Bioinformatics

Kuvempu University, Karnataka

Focus: Genomics, Drug Discovery, Protein Engineering

B.Sc in Biotechnology

Kuvempu University, Karnataka

Majors: Biotechnology, Botany, Computer Science

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

@ Rakuten USA

May 2022 - Present
  • ●Building AgenticAI solutions and managing LLM deployments for peak usage.
  • ●Developing UI/API/CLI apps for submitting training jobs to HPC clusters.
  • ●Setting up MLOps pipelines and maintaining high-performance K8s clusters.
  • ●Automating infrastructure with Terraform/Ansible; Managing IAM via Keycloak.
  • ●Writing custom K8s operators and managing a team of UI/Infra engineers.

Application Engineer

@ Rakuten, Inc. Tokyo

Jan 2018 - May 2022
  • ●Built IaC using Terraform/Ansible; wrote custom Terraform plugins & GoLang SDKs.
  • ●Developed REST API toolkits (FastAPI/Gin) and Auth services (Keycloak/Kong).
  • ●Conducted load testing (Locust) and wrote test cases (Pytest).

Application Engineer

@ Rakuten India

Sep 2014 - Dec 2018
  • ●Built APIs for IaaS (VMware), DNS (Nominum), and Load Balancers (BigIP).
  • ●Led a 3-member team as Scrum Master; automated jobs via Apache Airflow.

Associate IT Consultant

@ ITC Infotech / Bosch

Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
  • ●Automated support for SCM tools (MKS/ClearQuest); wrote PERL sync scripts.

Software Engineer

@ eHover Systems

Apr 2013 - Jan 2014
  • ●Developed cloud-based personal surveillance systems (AWS S3/EC2/ZoneMinder).
  • ●Built web interface for surveillance data access using PHP and CodeIgniter.

Project Assistant

@ Kuvempu University

Apr 2011 - Apr 2013
  • ●Developed Perl modules for molecular dynamic simulation of Endotoxin neutralizing proteins.
  • ●Built web application to analyze SBML files using Python bindings of LibSBML.
  • ●Tech: BioPython, BioPerl, LibSBML, Gromacs.

Software Developer Intern

@ IBAB

Sep 2010 - Feb 2011
  • ●Built 'Mammalian Gene Expression Database'.
  • ●Developed web app for bio-curator data using PERL, MySQL, and JavaScript.

Projects

Profile Agent

AI assistant showcasing my background, built with Google ADK and CopilotKit. Offers chat and voice interfaces

GitHubLive

SDLC Agent

an SWE agent harness following SDLC principles to generate a fully functional backend api service.

GitHubLive