Software & AI/ML Engineer

Gauri Sharan

// Software Dev · Data Science · AI Research

Building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI security, LLM pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Currently implementing Zero Trust architectures for Agentic AI at Whiteswan Identity Security.

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EXPERIENCE

Software Dev Engineer (SDE) - 1 NOV 2025 — PRESENT

WHITESWAN IDENTITY SECURITY — Remote, United States

  • Implementing PEP, PDP and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) protocols in Agentic AI pipelines.
  • Enhancing authorization security across distributed agent workflows with Zero Trust Architecture.
Data Science Trainee MAR 2025 — AUG 2025

NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) — Mumbai, India

  • Built in-house LLM-based NL-to-SQL translator (Dolphin LLaMa + LM Studio + Postgres) achieving 95%+ query accuracy.
  • Won SolveX Hackathon with INR 200K prize for full-stack product development and team leadership.
  • Developed time-series forecasting models (Prophet, ARIMA) deployed across Google Pay, PhonePe, PayTM; 60% reduction in manual reporting effort.
AI Research Junior Assistant DEC 2024 — FEB 2025

IIT ROORKEE — Roorkee/Noida/Delhi, India

  • Researched RAG pipelines and Vision-Language Models for EdTech QA systems; evaluated LangChain, Pinecone, LlamaIndex.
  • Collaborated with IIIT Delhi to develop RAG-based EdTech chatbot with curriculum-aligned content generation.
SDE Cloud Intern JUL 2024 — DEC 2024

WHITESWAN IDENTITY SECURITY — Remote, United States

  • Automated AWS Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning using Boto3 and Bash; 80% reduction in manual provisioning time.
  • Managed CI/CD deployments across Docker, Kubernetes, EC2, IAM — reducing infrastructure costs while maintaining uptime.
Data Analyst Intern NOV 2023 — MAY 2024

NASSCOM — Noida, India

  • Statistical analysis on learner funnel data using Python (scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn, plotly); built performance dashboards.
  • Delivered insights to Digital India, NITI Aayog, and MeitY stakeholders for digital literacy program optimization.
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TECH STACK

gauri@dev:~$ cat skills.config
✓ STATUS: OPERATIONAL
→ Specialization: LLMs, RAG, Security, Cloud
→ Hackathon: SolveX Winner [INR 200K]
→ Deployments: AWS, VertexAI, Azure ML
gauri@dev:~$

// Languages

Python C/C++ Java JavaScript SQL Go Rust Cedar Rego

// ML / AI

LLMs RAG VLMs Fine-tuning (SFT/QLoRA) RNN/CNN/ANN Time-Series CUDA Kernels HuggingFace

// Cloud & DevOps

AWS EC2 IAM JIT Provisioning VertexAI Azure ML Docker Kubernetes CI/CD

// Frameworks & Tools

LangChain Pinecone LlamaIndex FastAPI SpringBoot Boto3 LM Studio MCP A2A
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PROJECTS

PROJECT_01 🏆 HACKATHON WINNER

Insights Local AI

SolveX Hackathon-winning analytics product integrating quantized Dolphin LLaMa with Postgres backend via LM Studio. Enables NL-to-SQL querying for non-technical users — 95%+ query accuracy on financial transaction data.

→ github.com/gaurisharan/insights-local-ai
PROJECT_02

Fine-tuned LLMs: SmolLM & Phi-2

Fine-tuned SmolLM via SFT on SmolTalk dataset; fine-tuned Microsoft Phi-2 with QLoRA 4-bit quantization on Alpaca dataset. Achieved 75% VRAM reduction while maintaining full performance benchmarks.

→ huggingface.co/gauri-sharan
PROJECT_03

C++ CUDA GPU Kernels

Optimized CUDA kernels in C++ for parallelized matrix operations and ML training pipelines. Achieved 10x+ speedup on high-dimensional tensor computations versus CPU implementations.

→ github.com/gaurisharan/cuda-ml-kernels
PROJECT_04

RAG Document Chat Assistant

Production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbot using Pinecone vector store, LangChain orchestration, Mistral LLM, and HuggingFace embeddings for context-rich document Q&A with semantic search.

→ github.com/gaurisharan/RAG-Advanced
PROJECT_05

Real-Time Vision-NLP Multimodal System

Bilingual (Hindi/English) image-to-text retrieval system integrating ByALDI and Qwen2VL for real-time keyword-based search and image classification in regional language applications.

→ huggingface.co/gauri-sharan/test-two
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EDUCATION

MASTER'S

Masters in Computer Applications

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU)
Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology (NIET)

● ONGOING

BACHELOR'S

Bachelor of Science - Data Science & AI

Shobhit University

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