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Hi, I'm Sharan 馃憢

Full-stack software engineer with nearly 5 years of combined experience, now building AI-native products end-to-end, including voice agents, RAG pipelines, and agent orchestration systems.
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About

Software engineer with nearly 5 years of engineering experience, including 3.5+ years at Zoho building high-scale systems that serve 50K+ daily users, handle 200K req/day proxy traffic, and cut CRM Canvas latency by 38%. Now building voice AI platforms, RAG-powered healthcare apps, and AI security gateways across the full stack. Master's in Computer Science from Illinois Tech with a 4.0 GPA.

Work Experience

Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Supported over 120 systems programming and 200 database students through grading, tutoring, and academic guidance
  • Automated grading with Python and Perl, deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to streamline the evaluation process

Zoho Corporation

  • Migrated CRM's Canvas server to a key-value store, reducing first-read latency by ~38%
  • Implemented gRPC-based inter/intra service communication, improving coordination speed by ~20%
  • Built a high-throughput proxy server for Zillum handling ~200K requests per day
  • Delivered Canvas features like record view, serving over 50K daily users
  • Developed 30+ React components and shipped 4 major CRM features
  • Built cloud-native REST APIs for scalable communication between services
  • Developed full-stack modules with Tomcat, JSP, and Ember.js to add SMTP/IMAP integration for in-app email
Schwing Stetter India 路 Internship Trainee
May 2019 - Jun 2019
AMI 路 Project Trainee
Nov 2018
Jouve 路 Project Trainee
Jun 2018

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology

Master of Computer Science 路 GPA 4.0/4.0
Aug 2024 - May 2026

St. Joseph's College of Engineering (Anna University)

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering 路 GPA 3.33/4.0
Aug 2017 - May 2021

Skills

LangChain
LangGraph
CrewAI
LlamaIndex
RAG
pgvector
Qdrant
Vector Search
MCP
LiveKit
SSE Streaming
React
Next.js
React Native
TypeScript
Python
Go
Java
FastAPI
Spring Boot
Node.js
Prisma
gRPC
WebRTC
PostgreSQL
Redis
MongoDB
DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
Neo4j
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
GCP
Terraform
Kafka
Microservices
CI/CD
System Design
My Projects

What I've Built

AI-native products shipped end-to-end - voice agents, RAG pipelines, knowledge graphs, and high-performance backends.

VoiceCraft

Mar 2026 - Present

Voice AI platform that lets SMBs deploy phone agents for appointment booking, availability checks, and WhatsApp confirmations.

Next.js
TypeScript
Python
LiveKit
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Twilio
Stripe
Docker
Website

HelpNest

Jan 2026 - Present

Open-source AI-first customer support platform with a RAG-powered agent (OpenAI + Claude) that auto-resolves support tickets.

Next.js
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Prisma
Redis
Qdrant
OpenAI
Anthropic
Docker
AWS
WebsiteSource
Bluefiber

Bluefiber

Apr 2026 - Present

Spec-driven development platform that grounds cross-service blueprints and impact analysis in a live graph of your codebase.

Next.js
TypeScript
Fastify
Rust
Neo4j
PostgreSQL
LangChain
Turborepo
Anthropic
Docker

CalmGuide

Feb 2026 - Present

AI companion for caregivers of dementia patients, with a RAG pipeline grounding every response in trusted medical sources.

Next.js
React Native
TypeScript
Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
pgvector
OpenAI
Anthropic
Docker
Website
CalmPath

CalmPath

Mar 2026 - Present

Mobile app streaming real-time, personalized crisis guidance to caregivers of autistic individuals in under 10 seconds.

React Native
Expo
TypeScript
Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
OpenAI
Anthropic
Docker
Source
Threshold

Threshold

Apr 2026 - Present

High-performance AI gateway in Go that intercepts MCP requests and enforces security policies with sub-millisecond evaluation.

Go
Fiber
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
Docker
ResearchGraph AI

ResearchGraph AI

Mar 2026

HackWithChicago 3.0 project turning academic PDFs and Semantic Scholar's 200M+ papers into an interactive knowledge graph.

Next.js
TypeScript
Python
FastAPI
Neo4j
OpenAI
Docker
A3S

A3S

Aug 2025 - Present

Centralized authentication service for multi-product companies with Single Sign-On across multiple domains.

Go
Gin
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Docker
Microservices
Source
LinkSnap

LinkSnap

Jun 2025 - Jul 2025

URL shortener with custom domains, QR codes, and real-time analytics covering clicks, geography, and devices.

React
JavaScript
Firebase
HTML
CSS
Website
GitHub

Contribution Activity

My contribution history over the last year.

Certificates

Continuous Learning

Certifications in machine learning and cybersecurity.

Writing

Recent Posts

Notes on systems, AI, and the things I break.

Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Feel free to reach out to me via email or connect with me on LinkedIn. I'm always open to discussing new opportunities and interesting projects.