Karan Sreedhar
Karan Sreedhar

Karan Sreedhar

MS CS Graduate · UIC · May 2026

Computer Science | UIC | Chicago, IL

Seeking Backend · ML Engineering · DevOps · May 2026

Projects

8 projects

Featured

1

Adversarial NLP Stress-Testing for Fact Verification

Demo coming soon

Uncovered 64–96% adversarial failure rates across 7 fact-checking models on AWS EC2 (NVIDIA L40S)

Python
GTK4
AWS EC2
NLP
LLM Inference
+1

Jan 2026 – May 2026

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2

Distributed Object Store with Erasure Coding and Integrity Verification

Demo coming soon

File retrieval guaranteed even with 40% node failure; 44% storage overhead reduction over naive replication

Python
FastAPI
Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding
Docker
React
+1

Jan 2026 – May 2026

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3

Medical Chatbot Strategy Comparison System

Demo coming soon

RAG + memory eliminated hallucinations entirely; simple strategy delivered 3.5× better cost-performance

LangChain
FastAPI
Llama 3.3 70B
Groq
ChromaDB
+2

Jan 2026 – May 2026

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4

Academic Research Paper Search Tool with RAG on AWS

Demo coming soon

~200ms query latency; ~90% re-indexing compute reduction; 5,000+ concept nodes extracted into Neo4j

Scala
Apache Spark
Apache Flink
Hadoop MapReduce
AWS EMR
+5

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

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5

Quizzify: Full-Stack Music Quiz Platform

Demo coming soon

Production deployment with persistent scoreboards and user-generated quiz pipeline via any Spotify playlist

ReactJS
FastAPI
Spotify OAuth 2.0
Playwright
MongoDB
+3

Aug 2024 – Dec 2024

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More Projects

Selective Language Modeling for Efficient LLM Training

PyTorch · LoRA · TinyLlama · HuggingFace

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Interactive Handwritten Character Recognition System

PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · React

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025

Dataset Shift Analysis & Implementation

Python · scikit-learn · Pandas · NumPy

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025

Experience

Software Apprenticeship (Part-time)

Canvendor

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

Chicago, IL (Remote)

Evaluated DevSecOps and observability tooling including SonarQube, Grafana, and OWASP ZAP across an existing codebase

Produced documentation and implementation solutions for integrating security scanning and monitoring into CI/CD workflows

Summer Intern

Lumiq (Crisp Analytics Pvt Ltd)

Jun 2023 – Sep 2023

Chennai, India

Built PySpark and Pandas data pipelines and SQL queries to process health insurance analytics data for fintech clients

Automated recurring data processing tasks, reducing manual effort across the team

Used the GreatExpectations library to run data quality checks across pipelines, ensuring clean and validated data at each stage of processing

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Illinois at Chicago

Aug 2024 – Present

Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Sep 2020 – May 2024

Chennai, India

Technical Skills

Languages

Python
JavaScript
Scala
TypeScript
SQL
Bash

Web & APIs

FastAPI
ReactJS
Node.js
REST APIs
OAuth 2.0

Databases

MongoDB
PostgreSQL
MySQL
ChromaDB
Neo4j

Distributed Systems

Apache Spark
Apache Flink
Hadoop MapReduce
Parquet
HDFS

Machine Learning

PyTorch
TensorFlow
scikit-learn
Pandas
NumPy
RAG
LangChain
Ollama
LoRA Fine-tuning
LLM Training

Cloud

AWS (S3, EMR, EC2, IAM, VPC, EKS)
Google Cloud (Cloud Run)

DevOps & Tools

Git
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Playwright
GTK4
OWASP ZAP
Linux
Prometheus
Grafana

Certifications

Cloud Computing Foundations · Containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift · Microservices, Serverless Architecture, and OpenShift · DevOps Fundamentals and Agile Practices · Python for Data Science and AI Development · Machine Learning with Apache Spark · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fundamentals

About

MS Computer Science graduate from UIC (May 2026) with experience in backend engineering, ML systems, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Beyond work — F1 · Soccer · Guitar · Video game tech · GPUs

Let's Connect

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