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Pranav Purathepparambil

Intern Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and security

AnyLogUniversity of PennsylvaniaSan Jose, CA6 Years ExperienceIntern LevelWorks On-Site

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Built a production LLM-powered analyst assistant at Discern Security to speed up SOC investigations using a RAG pipeline over security vendor documentation (Python PDF ingestion, vector search). Demonstrates deep, security-critical LLM engineering: structure-aware chunking with custom table parsing, grounded/cited responses, prompt-injection defenses, and post-generation validation, validated via golden datasets and adversarial testing; tool is used daily by analysts.

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Key Strengths

  • Built and deployed a production RAG system for SOC investigations
  • Improved retrieval quality via structure-aware chunking and custom PDF table parsing
  • Designed security-critical LLM guardrails (grounded prompting, citations, prompt-injection defenses, post-gen validation)
  • Strong evaluation discipline (golden datasets, adversarial cases, component unit tests, end-to-end tests, retrieval metrics, latency checks)
  • Pragmatic model/retrieval selection based on stakes, latency, and grounded behavior
  • Effective collaboration with non-technical SOC stakeholders through iterative live demos and workflow alignment

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Experience

Software Engineer Intern — Distributed Systems & Secure Backend EngineeringAnyLog · Jun 2025 – Presentinternship
CSE150 Networking Tutor & GraderUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · Sep 2024 – Jun 2025part-time
Full Stack Developer Intern — AI/ML Systems & SOC AutomationDiscern Security · Apr 2023 – May 2024internship
Co-founder — Full Stack, Cloud Infrastructure & DevOpsMotiv8 · Jun 2021 – May 2024
Cybersecurity Product InternSecurityAdvisor · Sep 2019 – Nov 2021internship

Education

University of Pennsylvaniamaster, Artificial Intelligence (2027)
UC Santa Cruzbachelor, Computer Engineering (2025)

Awards

  • Dean’s Honors List (2021–2025) - University of California, Santa Cruz

Languages

English

Certifications

Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

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