I build reliable services with clean APIs and strong observability. MS CS @ Purdue Fort Wayne. Security background and practical AI experience.
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prajwal — software engineer who likes systems that don’t break
# areas: backend · infra/devops · security · applied AI/ML
# values: simplicity, observability, good docs, boring tech when it helps- Thesis (MS CS, Dec 2025): Thesis on Static Malware Detection Across Modalities — comparing EMBER style static features vs MalNet image models, and ensembles.
- Looking for 2025–2026 roles in SWE (backend/infra) and AI/ML engineering.
- Thesis experiments – EMBER + added metadata (LightGBM), ViT on MalNet images, robustness/ensembles/MoE.
Languages: Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Bash
Backend: FastAPI, gRPC/REST, GraphQL, Celery, Kafka, OpenAPI
Databases: Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, SQLite, BigQuery
Infra/DevOps: Docker, Terraform, AWS, Linux, Nginx, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana
AI/ML: PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, scikit‑learn, LightGBM/XGBoost, LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Gemini
- What: WebRTC VAD → ASR (wav2vec2/Whisper) → sentence classifier → token‑span masker.
- Why: Keep chats safe without destroying context; only mask toxic spans.
- Tech: Python, WebRTC VAD, PyTorch, DistilBERT, Whisper, Docker.
- 🔗 Repo:
hdprajwal/Guardscribe(public)
- Blog: hdprajwal.dev/blog — systems notes, experiments, and write‑ups.
- Backend/Infra SWE · ML/AI Engineer · Security‑minded SWE
- Internships/New‑grad roles (2025–2026) and collabs on open source.
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: hdprajwal.dev
- LinkedIn: /in/hdprajwal