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Atharva Sardar

Junior AI/Software Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and full-stack ML systems

Gauntlet AIVirginia TechAustin, TX2 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks Remote

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Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).

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Key Strengths

  • Designed layered backend architecture (ingestion/processing/presentation) for real-time emergency alerts
  • Built guardrailed AI decision-support (hybrid rules + LLM, structured outputs, confidence-based fallback)
  • Scalability via async processing and background workers to keep APIs responsive under spikes
  • Strong API engineering practices in FastAPI (validation, idempotency, logging, predictable contracts)
  • Centralized RBAC implementation using FastAPI dependency injection with DB-backed dynamic permissions
  • Low-risk refactoring/migration approach (versioned migrations, staging with snapshot data, additive changes)
  • Incremental rollout with parallel runs and discrepancy logging to protect uptime and data integrity
  • Proactively identified failure modes (duplicates/malformed payloads) and improved resilience with validation and idempotency

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Experience

Software EngineerVirginia Tech · Aug 2025 – Dec 2025
AI Engineer FellowGauntlet AI · Oct 2025 – Dec 2025
Software Development EngineerWeboculus Technology · May 2022 – Aug 2023
Software EngineerSyneractiv · Jan 2026 – Present

Education

Virginia Techmaster, Computer Science and Applications (Data Analytics and AI) (2025)
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institutebachelor, Electronics Engineering (2022)

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerGoogle Data Analytics (8-Course Specialization)

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Atharva SardarJunior AI/Software Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and full-stack ML systems