Praniket Ketan Walavalkar

About

AI Software Engineer (student employee) at University of Washington IT who helped deploy "Purple," a governed, explainable LLM platform on Azure used by 100,000+ students/faculty/staff. Independently led scalable reliability efforts by building automated agent quality/load/red-team testing and CI/CD health validation (Playwright/Node.js, Azure DevOps), and previously built an explainable AI scheduling assistant for clinical operations at Proliance Surgeons.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Deployed a containerized LLM platform on Azure serving 100,000+ university users
• Built end-to-end Azure environments from scratch (prod + dev sandbox)
• Led automated quality, load, and red-team testing with Playwright/Node.js and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Production-minded agent reliability approach with continuous monitoring and health reporting
• Designed RAG agents with scoped tool access, versioned prompts/configs, and structured logging to reduce hallucinations
• Implemented measurable agent evaluation (correctness/completeness/relevance scoring, task success rate, latency under load)
• Bridged non-technical stakeholder needs into an AI scheduling assistant with explainable recommendations in healthcare ops

Reference Highlights

• Exceptional performance
• Top performer
• Excellent collaborator
• Great team player
• Solid communicator
• Able to explain technical approaches to external/non-local stakeholders (other universities)