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DEV K • ENGINEER IN ORBIT

Ideas become useful when every piece connects.

I am Sukhdev, a Python and backend engineer building cloud systems, intelligent services, data products, and interfaces that make complicated work feel clear.

SKBACKEND
AI
CLOUD
PROJECT CONSTELLATION

Systems with a real job to do

01

AI trust and safety

Guardrails, safety scoring, and backend services that make intelligent systems more dependable in enterprise environments.

Python FastAPI AWS SQL
02

Knowledge retrieval

Context aware assistants for searching large financial and operational knowledge collections through natural language.

Claude LangChain Vector search
03

Fraud investigation automation

GraphQL, data processing, and service automation that help teams retrieve the right customer context with less manual effort.

GraphQL Node.js Apollo
EXPERIENCE

Selected building blocks

01
VerizonMarch 2024 to Present

Python Backend Engineer

Building AI powered backend services, enterprise assistants, GraphQL APIs, cloud data workflows, and production ready interfaces across high volume systems.

  • Created trust and safety services with Python, FastAPI, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and SQL, reducing manual effort by 65 percent.
  • Built enterprise assistants using Claude, LangChain, and vector databases for natural language search across more than 100,000 records.
  • Delivered React and TypeScript dashboards, containerized AWS services, automated infrastructure, and data quality workflows.
02
UNC CharlotteJanuary 2024 to May 2024

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning

Supported graduate and doctoral students through practical machine learning instruction, careful code review, and reusable teaching tools.

  • Reviewed more than 2,000 lines of Java code each week and adapted logic for cloud native execution and multithreading.
  • Built weekly assignments using real datasets for classification, clustering, and regression.
  • Reduced grading time by 30 percent through reusable Pandas, Scikit learn, and Matplotlib scripts.
TOOLBOX

Pieces I build with

Programming

PythonJavaTypeScriptJavaScriptC++SQLScala

AI and GenAI

ClaudeOpenAI APIsLangChainLangGraphLlamaIndexRAGAgentic AI

Backend and APIs

FastAPIFlaskNode.jsExpress.jsGraphQLOAuth 2.0JWT

Frontend

ReactReduxReact HooksMaterial UITailwind CSSBootstrap

Cloud and data

AWSGCPAzureDockerPostgreSQLSnowflakeDatabricksKafka

Delivery and tools

GitHub ActionsAWS ECSCodePipelineTerraformOpenShiftCloudWatchJira
LEARNING ORBIT

Education and credentials

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, December 2024

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Certification

AWS Academy Certified Data Engineer

Amazon Web Services Academy

Certification

Certified GenAI Engineer

Databricks

Certification

Agentic AI, Predictive Analytics, Support Specialist

ServiceNow

202541020827
PATENT

A System and Method for Facial Detection in Unconstrained Environments

Research focused on helping computer vision operate more effectively when real world conditions are difficult and unpredictable.

LEADERSHIP

Building communities too

01

Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship

UNC Charlotte

June 2024 to December 2024
02

Secretary of Public Relations

UNC Charlotte

August 2023 to June 2024
03

Head of Public Relations

SRM

May 2021 to June 2023