Software Engineer & AI Engineer · Open to full-time opportunities (F1 OPT)

I'm a Software Engineer and AI Engineer based in San Jose, CA, currently on F1 OPT and actively looking for full-time Software Engineer / AI Engineer roles.

I'm finishing my M.S. in Software Engineering at San José State University (May 2026), and working full-time as a Software Engineer at Altrion.ai, building fintech backend infrastructure in Python/FastAPI and React/TypeScript. Before that, I spent two years building distributed Java microservices at Aviac Technologies.

My focus is backend and distributed systems, and applied AI — RAG pipelines, agentic tool-use harnesses, and the Claude/LangChain stack. I also contribute fixes to open-source projects on the side: four merged PRs into Andrew Ng's openworker, a merged accessibility fix in a 30k★ UI library, and a diagnosis + credited fix for a data-loss bug in a 14k★ agent harness.

• 💼 Software Engineer at Altrion.ai — multi-provider fintech data layer (Plaid, Coinbase, Stripe, Moralis DeFi), 200+ financial instruments, sub-200ms under concurrent load
• 🎓 M.S. Software Engineering, San José State University — May 2026
• 🛂 On F1 OPT, open to full-time Software Engineer / AI Engineer roles
• ⚙️ Building TSDLite on the side — 1.1M points/sec, zero data loss
• 🔍 Contributing fixes to production AI/OSS codebases (see below)

TSDLite — large-scale time-series ingestion engine in C++20 Bounded ring buffer, concurrent data access, batched PostgreSQL writes. Sustains 1.1M points/sec wire acceptance with zero data loss under 8x burst overload, 141k rows/sec sustained DB throughput (35x faster than naive writes), 64 automated tests, full CI/CD, Docker/K8s.

Thrilochana — information retrieval & NLP platform, live on the App Store A 6-stage hybrid retrieval pipeline (BM25, embeddings, Reciprocal Rank Fusion) hitting 95%+ accuracy across 100+ document catalogs, plus a Plan-Execute-Reflect agentic harness spanning 54 tool integrations that cut processing time 97% against a ground-truth evaluation layer.

job-hunter-project — self-hosted job aggregator Polls ATS boards directly — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Recruitee — so matching roles arrive by push before they ever hit the big job boards. Next.js, Node/Express, Supabase Postgres.

Software Engineer · Altrion — Jul 2026 – Present, San Jose, CA Full-stack fintech infrastructure in Python/FastAPI and React 19/TypeScript, shipped weekly to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions. Designed a resilient integration layer across 10+ third-party APIs (Plaid, Coinbase, Stripe, Moralis DeFi) with per-step error isolation, so a single provider outage never fails the broader pipeline. Cursor-based incremental sync with per-source partial-failure handling — zero unplanned downtime across weekly releases.

Software Engineer · Aviac Technologies — Jan 2022 – Dec 2023, India Distributed Java/Spring Boot microservices; cut API response time 30% across 500+ daily requests with connection pooling and async processing. Diagnosed a silent Kafka message-drop defect via structured log analysis and fixed it with idempotent consumers and dead-letter routing, restoring 99.9% event delivery across 3 services. Took test coverage from 40% to 90%, ran 50+ code reviews, zero unplanned outages across 20+ Kubernetes releases.

andrewyng/openworker ★17k · Andrew Ng's agent harness — 4 merged PRs, listed contributor

• #55 rejected path-traversal session IDs in the conversation store
• #56 made the conversation loader tolerate one corrupt line instead of losing the whole .jsonl
• #379 fixed a race where a scheduled task could fire twice if an approval landed mid-tick
• #24 fixed inbox reply-intent parsing to key off the leading word instead of substring matching

heroui-inc/heroui ★30k — #6741 merged, approved by a core maintainer Removed stray aria-labels left on aria-hidden decorative icons — an accessibility fix.

yc-software/qm ★14k agent harness — credited co-author on a merged fix Found that the Postgres-backed durable map JSON-stringifies into jsonb, which rejects NUL bytes and lone surrogate pairs — the exact kind of string the system's own truncation helpers manufacture when a clamp lands mid-emoji. Wrote the ADR describing the failure and the fix; the maintainer folded it into a merged batch PR crediting me as co-author.

In review

• stanfordnlp/dspy #10301 — configure_cache() had no fallback when disk-cache init failed; added one
• run-llama/llama_index #22857 — traced an nltk 3.10.3 hardlink guard that silently broke punkt_tab/RAKE keyword extraction, fixed it at the root instead of patching call sites

🎓 Claude Certified Developer – Foundations, Anthropic (Aug 2026)

Always up for talking distributed systems, retrieval pipelines, or why your logs are lying to you.