Hi, I'm Sharan 👋
Full-stack engineer with 3.5+ years of experience, building AI-native products - voice agents, RAG pipelines, and agent orchestration systems.
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About

Software engineer who ships AI-native products end-to-end. 3.5+ years at Zoho building high-scale systems (50K+ daily users, 200K req/day proxy, 38% latency reduction), now building voice AI platforms, RAG-powered healthcare apps, and AI security gateways. I work across the full stack - LLM orchestration, vector search, streaming inference, React, Next.js, Go, Python, and cloud infrastructure. MS in Computer Science at IIT Chicago with a 4.0 GPA.

Work Experience

IIT

Illinois Institute of Technology

Feb 2025 - Present
Teaching Assistant
Supported over 120 systems programming and 200 database students through grading, tutoring, and academic guidance. Automated grading using Python and Perl, then deployed the solution on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to streamline the evaluation process.
ZOHO

Zoho Corporation

May 2021 - Jul 2024
Software Engineer
Worked in Zoho Mail and Zoho CRM. 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 created 4 major CRM features.
ZOHO

Zoho Corporation

Mar 2021 - May 2021
Project Trainee
Built cloud-native REST APIs that supported seamless, scalable communication between services. Developed full-stack modules with Tomcat, JSP, and Ember.js to add SMTP/IMAP integration, enabling in-app email communication.

Education

IIT

Illinois Institute of Technology

Aug 2024 - May 2026
Master of Science, Computer Science
GPA: 4.0/4.0
SJCE

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

Aug 2017 - May 2021
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
GPA: 3.4/4.0

Skills

LangChain
LangGraph
CrewAI
LlamaIndex
RAG
pgvector
Qdrant
Vector Search
MCP
OpenAI
Anthropic
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

Built a voice AI platform for SMBs to deploy AI voice agents that handle appointment booking, availability checks, and WhatsApp confirmations. Features an agent builder powered by Claude, a LiveKit voice pipeline (Deepgram STT + Gemini LLM + ElevenLabs TTS), Twilio phone provisioning, Google Calendar integration, Stripe billing, and a developer platform with a TypeScript SDK for programmatic agent management.

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

HelpNest

Jan 2026 - Present

Built an open-source AI-first customer support platform with a RAG-powered agent (OpenAI + Claude) that auto-resolves support tickets, a knowledge base, embeddable widget, JS/TS SDK, and a GitHub CLI for seeding docs.

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

CalmGuide

Feb 2026 - Present

Built an AI-powered crisis guidance platform for dementia caregivers with a RAG pipeline grounding responses in 41 pages from trusted medical sources. Features structured crisis responses, patient profiles with behavioral pattern detection, predictive risk alerts, daily check-ins, cross-patient learning, and support for 11 languages.

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

CalmPath

Mar 2026 - Present

Built an AI-powered mobile app that delivers real-time, personalized crisis guidance to caregivers of autistic individuals (Level 2-3). Streams structured four-part responses (Right Now, Why, What NOT to Do, When to Escalate) in under 10 seconds using per-child sensory profiles and crisis-type-specific prompt templates.

React Native
Expo
TypeScript
Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
OpenAI
Anthropic
Docker
Source

Threshold

Apr 2026 - Present

Built a high-performance AI gateway in Go Fiber v3 that intercepts MCP requests and enforces security policies with sub-millisecond evaluation. Features a policy engine with Redis caching, an approval queue with Slack notifications, full audit logging, and a Next.

Go
Fiber
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
Docker

ScholarGraph

Mar 2026

Built an AI-powered research tool for HackWithChicago 3. 0 that transforms academic PDFs and Semantic Scholar's 200M+ paper database into an interactive knowledge graph.

Next.js
TypeScript
Python
FastAPI
Neo4j
OpenAI
Docker

A3S

Aug 2025 - Present

Built a centralized authentication service for multi-product companies with Single Sign-On across multiple domains. Features JWT auth with automatic refresh token rotation, OAuth integration (Google, GitHub, Microsoft), role-based access control, and rate limiting.

Go
Gin
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Docker
Microservices
Source

LinkSnap

Jun 2025 - Jul 2025

Built a URL shortener with comprehensive analytics tracking click data, geographic insights, and device statistics. Features custom domains, QR code generation, and real-time analytics dashboards.

React
JavaScript
Firebase
HTML
CSS
Website
Certificates

Continuous Learning

I believe in lifelong learning and staying updated with the latest technologies and industry standards.

Machine Learning by Andrew Ng

Stanford / DeepLearning.AI

2025

Google Cybersecurity Certificate

Google

2024

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.

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