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.

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