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Abhishek Kokadwar.

Backend & AI Systems Engineer

I build high-performance backend infrastructure, secure AI agents, and scalable web applications. Currently a pre-final year Dual Degree student at IIITM Gwalior.

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CIDRA

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Revert "feat(design): datasheet redesign — one section pattern, compact work rows, /about page, tokens consolidated"

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#aboutAbout

01Academics

B.Tech IT + MBA @ IIIT Gwalior

2023 – 2028

Integrated dual-degree in Information Technology, CGPA 7.5/10. Coursework in data structures, operating systems, computer networks and databases.

02Focus

Backend & Systems Engineering

Python · TypeScript · Go · PostgreSQL

Building high-performance REST APIs, database indexing, and microservices. Comfortable working with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux systems, and relational databases.

03Security

AI Tooling & Sandboxing

Zero-Trust · Linux Sandboxing

Exploring least-privilege execution environments and security proxies for LLM tools using Linux seccomp and authorization gateways.

04Status

Open to software engineering roles

Internships & full-time

Kubeflow organization member with 16 merged PRs across Kubeflow and Karmada. Solved 900+ DSA problems across LeetCode, Code360 and GeeksforGeeks.

skills

Languages
C++JavaPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQL
AI / ML
RAGLangChainHuggingFace TransformersBioBERT
Backend
Next.jsREST APIsPostgreSQLFirebase FirestoreMongoDBChromaDB
Systems & Security
DockerSeccomp / straceRow-Level Security (RLS)Zero-Trust Architecture
Tools & Cloud
GitGitHubVercelAWS (fundamentals)FigmaVS Code
Coursework
OOPOSComputer NetworksDBMSDSA

#experienceExperience

Most RecentRemote · Jul 2026 - Aug 2026

Full Stack Developer Intern @ HiGigAi

  • Shipped tridentpublicschool.com in a 1-month engagement: 5 branch sites on 5 subdomains from one Next.js codebase, cutting future branch onboarding to content entry only.
  • Designed 25+ Sanity schemas, scoping Studio via Structure Builder so 5 branch admins manage 15+ page types independently with zero developer involvement.
  • Cut recurring infra cost to $0/month by replacing a planned Supabase tier with Sanity-native forms and Cloudinary media, using ISR + webhooks for redeploy-free publishing.
Next.jsSanity CMSCloudinaryVercel
Previous RoleRemote · Jul 2025 - Sep 2025

Software Developer Intern @ Trionix Technologies

  • Architected the VyaparPragati admin platform across 6 backend modules serving 500+ users, adding real-time Firestore messaging in place of manual polling.
  • Designed a normalized PostgreSQL schema with Row-Level Security; eliminated N+1 queries, halving DB round-trips on SSR routes.
Next.jsPostgreSQLFirebaseRow-Level Security
Earlier milestones (7)
2023
  • Joined IIITM Gwalior & Learned C — Started B.Tech IT + MBA at IIITM Gwalior. Mastered C programming, pointers, memory allocation, and low-level computing fundamentals.
    more

    Began college at IIITM Gwalior. First real programming was C — pointers, memory management, and the core low-level computing fundamentals that make everything after it click.

    CPointersMemoryFundamentals
2024
  • Design Systems & UI/UX — Learned Figma and design systems. Prototyped CampusSafe, a campus emergency SOS app that instilled a user-first mindset.
    more

    Picked up Figma and UI/UX design, then designed the interface for CampusSafe — a campus emergency SOS alert app. Learning to think about the user before the code shaped how I build now.

    FigmaUI/UXCampusSafePrototyping
  • C++ & Object-Oriented Architecture — Advanced into C++ and OOP systems design. Implemented core data structures and established architectural mental models for scale.
    more

    Moved to C++ and got comfortable with object-oriented programming — classes, inheritance, polymorphism — the mental model I still reach for when structuring larger systems.

    C++OOPData StructuresSystem Design
2025
  • Python & Applied AI/ML — Pivoted into Python, PyTorch, and NLP models. Built retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) experiments and transformer pipelines.
    more

    Shifted into Python and began exploring AI/ML — building neural network architectures and RAG pipelines that would define my systems engineering trajectory.

    PythonPyTorchTransformersRAG
  • Hackathons & Autonomous AI — Built an end-to-end clinical-trial matching pipeline solo at a Healthcare AI Hackathon, in a 36-hour sprint.
    more

    Went from learning to shipping through hackathons and AI projects. This is where ideas started turning into working things under time pressure.

    HackathonsBioBERTChromaDB
  • Production Engineering Internships — Engineered production portals at Trionix & Bizzkonnect as sole developer. Architected PostgreSQL schemas with Row-Level Security (RLS).
    more

    Trionix Technologies and Bizzkonnect — real production work across backend and frontend. Architected admin platforms, designed PostgreSQL schemas with row-level security, and shipped as the sole engineer. The jump from projects to production taught me what 'done' actually means.

    Next.jsPostgreSQLRLSFastAPI
2026
  • DSA Mastery & AI Security Gateway — Solved 852 DSA problems (393 Medium, 55 Hard) across LeetCode, GeeksforGeeks, and Code360. Architecting MCP Zero-Trust Security Gateway with seccomp sandboxing.
    more

    Currently deep in data structures and algorithms — 852 problems across LeetCode, GeeksforGeeks, and Code360, alongside AI-security work on the MCP Zero-Trust Security Gateway. Building depth to match the breadth.

    852 DSA393 Med55 HardAI Security
    See coding stats →

#open-sourceOpen Source

16
merged PRs
4
repositories
Kubeflow org member
kubeflow/mcp-server8kubeflow/trainer4kubeflow/pipelines2karmada-io/dashboard2
kubeflow/mcp-server #344

reject a malformed namespace before any Kubernetes request

Moved input validation into one shared helper, so a bad namespace is rejected before any call reaches Kubernetes.

kubeflow/trainer #4088

stop TrainJob reconcile panicking on an unsupported runtimeRef

Fixed a Go nil-interface panic that dropped the Failed status when a TrainJob pointed at an unsupported runtime.

kubeflow/trainer #3960

validate TrainJob updates against the runtime snapshot

Fixed TrainJobs left permanently stuck: admission read live runtime state while reconciliation used a per-job snapshot.

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#projectsProjects

Presently — Offline-First Attendance PWA
01 · System

Presently — Offline-First Attendance PWA

abhishekKokadwar/Presently

Mobile-first PWA that tells students how many classes they can still miss in each subject. Taps are written locally and an outbox queue syncs them to Supabase on reconnect, with Postgres Row-Level Security rejecting bad writes.

ReactTypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQLPWA
Trinetra — AI-Driven Parking Intelligence
02 · System

Trinetra — AI-Driven Parking Intelligence

abhishekKokadwar/gridlock

Hackathon build on a static parking-violation dataset from Bengaluru Traffic Police. Finds H3 hotspots, forecasts weekly escalation with XGBoost, and plans patrol routes, behind a FastAPI backend and Next.js dashboard.

PythonFastAPINext.jsXGBoostH3Pandas
GridPulse — Smart Campus Energy Monitoring
03 · System

GridPulse — Smart Campus Energy Monitoring

abhishekKokadwar/GridPulse

Streaming pipeline that reads campus electricity meters every two seconds and flags hostel waste, demand peaks and voltage faults. Kafka, Spark and a Delta Lake lakehouse feed the checks and alerts. All meter data is simulated.

PythonKafkaSparkDelta LakeDuckDBdbtAirflow
CIDRA — CI Debugging & Repair Agent
04 · System

CIDRA — CI Debugging & Repair Agent

abhishekKokadwar/CIDRA

Repairs failing GitHub Actions builds: diagnoses the failure, proposes a fix, and opens a PR only once the failing tests go red to green in a network-isolated Docker sandbox. Ships as a PyPI package and a GitHub Action, with a FastAPI + React dashboard and HMAC-verified webhooks.

Architecture:AST static differential parsing with risk score classification
PythonFastAPIDockerReact
MCP Zero-Trust Security Gateway
05 · System

MCP Zero-Trust Security Gateway

nabrahma/MCP_Zero-Trust_Gateway_BTP

Declare–verify–confine gateway for MCP tool servers with per-tool seccomp-bpf filters and capability drift analysis.

Architecture:mTLS reverse proxy with sub-millisecond policy engine
PythonFastAPIDockerseccomp-bpfLandlock

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#blogBlog

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Are We There Yet? How Servers Learnt to Stop Nagging

What I learnt about polling, WebSockets, SSE and webhooks, in the order that finally made sense to me

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Every Solution Created Another Problem

A product discovery case study on making YouTube India compliant with the DPDP Act's child-privacy rules — and why every fix I reached for created a new problem.

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