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A Software Engineer seeking opportunities in AI and backend systems. Experienced in building LLM-based applications, including RAG solutions and evaluation frameworks, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance. Familiar with cloud infrastructure, ML pipelines, and distributed systems. I'm a hands-on builder, particularly interested in model behavior and system reliability.


Languages & Backend

Python, Java, C#, SQL, HTML/CSS, Bash, FastAPI, Spring MVC, React, ASP.NET MVC, REST APIs, Microservices

AI & LLM Engineering

LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Anthropic Claude, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, Function Calling, Structured Outputs, RAGAS

Performance & Reliability

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, TensorRT-LLM, LangSmith, Apache Kafka, Inference Optimization, Performance Monitoring, LLM Evaluation

Databases & Vector Search

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, FAISS, SQL, NoSQL

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, GPU/TPU, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, CI/CD

Developer Tools

Postman, VS Code, PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle


ML Framework For Cyber Fraud Detection using Parallel Computation

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Microservice For Mapping Global and Local-University-Courses

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Dashboard For Diversity Inclusion In Study Abroad

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Service For Event Scheduling using AWS Lambda

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Streaming Application For IoT Energy Monitoring

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RAG Solution Framework for Hallucination Detection & Response Reliability

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Featured2026Published ↗
Quantum Neural Networks for Financial Fraud Detection
Farheen Shaikh, Tapadhir Das
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Featured2026Publishing
Agentic Retrieval Framework for Hallucination Detection
Farheen Shaikh, Solomon Berhe
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University of the Pacific

Master of Science in Computer Science
Stockton, CA, USA

University of Mumbai

Bachelor's of Science in Information Technology
Mumbai, India

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AWS Autonomous Agent Hackathon Winner
Amazon Web Services — Spring 2026
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IEEE Women in Engineering Scholarship
IEEE WIE — Spring 2025
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Champion for Change
University of the Pacific — Spring 2025
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Faith Davies Outstanding Student Leadership Award
University of the Pacific — Leadership and Campus Engagement

DiscussionRAGMCP

The Hidden Cost of RAG: Why MCP Matters More Than Prompt Caching

Most teams optimise the wrong layer. This piece unpacks why Model Context Protocol is the missing link between retrieval performance and real inference efficiency.

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DiscussionInferenceSystems

Inference is the Real Bottleneck in AI Systems

Training gets the headlines, but inference is where AI either scales or stalls. A breakdown of the latency, throughput, and cost trade-offs engineers rarely talk about.

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DiscussionLLMAbstention

What is LLM Abstention — and What Happens at Work When the AI Says "I Don't Know"?

Hallucination gets all the attention, but abstention is the harder engineering problem. Explores how production systems can be designed to gracefully decline uncertain queries.

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DiscussionNLPBenchmarking

AI vs Human Translators: Experienced Professionals Outperform Large Language Models

Empirical findings on where LLMs fall short against domain experts in translation tasks — and what that means for how we benchmark language model capability.

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InfrastructureNVIDIAAI Architecture

AI is a Five-Layer Cake — Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO)

An interactive visual essay inspired by Jensen Huang's framework for understanding the full AI stack — from silicon to application.

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ConceptETLELTData Engineering

ETL vs ELT — Core Concepts Explained

A breakdown of ETL vs ELT pipelines — three stages, key differences, when to use each, and related concepts like Data Warehouses and MPP databases.

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ConceptCachingDistributed SystemsData Engineering

Caching — From Cache-Aside to Cache Stampede

A breakdown of cache types and placement — external, CDN, in-process, client-side — plus read/write patterns like cache-aside, write-through, and write-behind, and the cache stampede failure mode.

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Concept API Design REST System Design

How APIs Work — Select Right APIs For Your Business Needs

A deep dive into REST, GraphQL, and RPC — covering resource modeling, HTTP methods, RBAC auth, and rate limiting with real examples from a Ticketmaster-style system.

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