Career & Contributions
Experience & Research
Hands-on engineering across competitive hardware teams, production-grade API systems, and core open source infrastructure.
Autonomous Hardware & AI
Edge AI & Object Detection Lead
Drone Technology Team – CIT | NIDAR Competition
Oct 2025 – Dec 2025Chennai, India
Key Deliverable: Engineered sub-1 GFLOP 30+ FPS real-time detection on constrained drone payload hardware.
•Engineered a sub-1 GFLOP real-time object detection model combining a NanoDet backbone with YOLO-style decoupled heads, achieving 96% mAP and 30+ FPS on-device inference via TensorRT INT8 quantization.
•Evaluated FP32 vs. INT8 precision and backbone architectural trade-offs to meet strict compute and thermal constraints for autonomous drone payloads.
•Presented benchmark results and live flight telemetry at NIDAR 2025.
Stack:TensorRTNanoDetPyTorchDeepStream SDKTinyGradCUDALinux
Full-Stack Development
Full-Stack & ML Systems Intern
AI/ML Virtual Internship – AICTE & EduSkills
Apr 2025 – Jun 2025Remote
Key Deliverable: Deployed production-grade ML inference APIs serving 100+ concurrent users.
•Built and deployed a full-stack web application featuring a responsive React frontend and a robust Flask/Python backend.
•Served real-time ML model predictions via low-latency REST APIs, handling 100+ concurrent requests during load testing.
•Implemented structured error handling, request caching, and automated integration testing pipelines.
Stack:React.jsPythonFlaskREST APIsDockerMachine Learning
Systems & Security
Core Contributor
Open Source Contributor – AWS s2n-tls
2025 – PresentGlobal Open Source
Key Deliverable: Merged C TLS 1.3 implementation patches into Amazon Web Services core security library.
•Contributed patches to AWS s2n-tls (Amazon's C implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols).
•Resolved correctness issues and addressed critical documentation gaps in TLS 1.3 handshakes, thoroughly reviewed and merged by AWS maintainers.
•Engaged in memory safety, fuzzing tests, and cross-platform verification across Linux architectures.
Stack:CTLS 1.3CryptographyLinuxGitSecurity Auditing