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Vineet Kumar

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AI software engineer building agentic, AI-native platforms on top of resilient distributed systems.

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// 01 — about

AI engineer with a systems mindset

I spent three and a half years at ION Trading building trade-processing systems for global financial institutions — working across C#, Java, and C++, integrating Kafka and ActiveMQ for real-time data exchange, and automating infrastructure that cut multi-week processes down to minutes.

Now I'm at San Jose State University earning my Master's in Computer Software Engineering, where I've built everything from a self-healing microservice mesh with AI-driven root-cause analysis to a clinical decision-support engine with auditable diagnoses. I care about clean architecture, distributed systems, and using AI where it genuinely earns its place.

Beyond coursework, I recently interned at Microsoft, mentor engineers, and ship side projects ranging from SaaS platforms to crypto trading bots.

  • LLMs / RAG
  • AI Agents
  • Azure OpenAI
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Three.js / GLSL
  • Node.js
  • Java
  • Python
  • C++ / C#
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
systems.mesh
3+
Years in tech
10+
Projects shipped
120+
Modules automated
3.87
Undergrad GPA
// 02 — experience

Where I've worked

Software Engineer Intern

·Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · On-site
May 2026 — Aug 2026
  • Designed and delivered an end-to-end intelligent workload-placement engine in C# and .NET that routes about 82K shared-tenant pipelines onto right-sized Kubernetes compute — engineered to raise fleet CPU utilization about 5x (11% to 59%) and cut compute cost.
  • Architected a two-step, config-driven placement algorithm with a network-boundary (VNet) match guard that structurally prevents mis-routing across isolated networks, shipped behind feature flags for zero-downtime, reversible rollout.
  • Led a data-driven design correction — analyzing 603K production runs over 30 days in Kusto (ADX) on Azure Data Lake — then hardened it with 22 integration tests and a classifier suite.
  • C#
  • .NET
  • Kubernetes
  • Kusto (ADX)
  • Azure Data Lake
  • Distributed Systems
  • Feature Flags

Software Development Engineer

·ION Trading
Pune, India
Jan 2022 — Aug 2025
  • Built a C# desktop interface to streamline import/export of market index, correlation, and volatility data in XML — cutting setup time from 1 week to 10 minutes between UAT and Production.
  • Engineered a trade-processing framework with Apache Camel and Java, integrating Kafka and ActiveMQ for ExxonMobil to enable real-time trade data exchange and reduce latency.
  • Enhanced a commodity trading module using Java Native Interface and C++ to automate bulk trade scheduling — cutting UAT time from 4 weeks to 30 minutes.
  • Automated .NET Framework upgrades with PowerShell across 120+ modules, slashing upgrade time from 2 months to 1 week.
  • Achieved a consistent 95% CI pass rate through rigorous code reviews, SonarQube, and SOLID-principles sessions for the team and new hires.
  • Authored technical documentation that reduced new-hire onboarding time by 60%.
  • C#
  • Java
  • C++
  • Apache Camel
  • Kafka
  • ActiveMQ
  • PowerShell
  • SonarQube

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

·Microsoft
Vellore, India
Jan 2020 — Aug 2021
  • Facilitated hands-on workshops for 150 students, achieving 100% completion of a full-stack deployment project using Node.js, Docker, and Nginx.
  • Conducted Azure sessions for 200+ participants on cloud computing, spot VMs, and Apache HTTP servers.
  • Azure
  • Node.js
  • Docker
  • Nginx
// 03 — startup

TrueStar

Co-Founder & Engineer

An AI-native expert research platform.

TrueStar runs two research tracks in parallel and merges them into one cited report. Primary research is live, AI-moderated expert interviews — a voice agent named Aria interviews vetted human experts over LiveKit, paying them per interview via Stripe Connect. Secondary research is TARS: four specialized AI agents that independently research the open web, debate their findings, cross-check claims, and produce a synthesis with a hallucination audit and grounding score.

Aria — real-time voice interviewer

Sub-second voice agent over LiveKit WebRTC (Deepgram STT · Azure OpenAI · Fish Audio TTS) conducting ~10-minute expert interviews.

TARS — multi-agent fact verification

Four adversarial agents (Data Scientist, Investigative Journalist, Domain Expert, Devil's Advocate) debate, reflect, and synthesize an auditable verdict with cited sources.

RAG document intelligence

Namespace-scoped retrieval over expert documents — text-embedding-3-large into Pinecone with Cohere Rerank 3.5.

Production microservices

Four services on a shared Docker network: React 19 SPA + Express API, FastAPI RAG, FastAPI multi-agent orchestrator, and the voice worker.

  • React 19
  • Express
  • PostgreSQL 17
  • Redis
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Pinecone
  • Cohere Rerank
  • Tavily
  • LiveKit
  • Deepgram
  • Stripe Connect
  • Docker
Visit truestar.techsource: private
// 04 — projects

Selected work

Ordered by today's most in-demand skills — AI/ML and distributed systems first. Filter by focus, then open any card for the full breakdown.

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// 05 — skills

What I work with

AI Integration (RAG, LLMs, Agents)88%
Distributed Systems & Microservices92%
TypeScript / React / Next.js88%
Java / C# / C++90%
Cloud & DevOps (AWS, Azure, Docker)85%

My approach

I gravitate toward the hard parts of software — distributed systems, real-time data, and the architecture that keeps them resilient. Three years in fintech taught me that maintainable, well-tested code beats clever code every time.

I reach for AI where it genuinely earns its place, pair it with deterministic safeguards, and care about the details — performance, accessibility, and the small interactions that make software feel considered.

Languages
C++ · C# · Java · Python
AI & Data
LLMs · RAG · Agents · Azure OpenAI
Frameworks & Libraries
React · Next.js · Node.js · Spring
Messaging & Data
Apache Kafka · RabbitMQ · ActiveMQ · PostgreSQL
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS · Azure · Docker · Kubernetes
Practices
OOP · SOLID Principles · Agile · Test-Driven Development
// 06 — credentials

Education & credentials

Education

  • Aug 2025 — May 2027
    Master of Science
    Computer Software Engineering
    San Jose State University · San Jose, California
  • Jul 2018 — Jun 2022
    Bachelor of Technology
    Computer Science & Engineering — Information Security
    Vellore Institute of Technology · Vellore, India
    GPA 3.87

Certifications

  • Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
  • Fundamentals of Parallelism on Intel Architecture
  • Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things
  • Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

Achievements

  • Awarded Beta-rank Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador by Microsoft.
  • 2nd Place — Code Run Seek, IEEE IAS & IEEE WIE International Techno Carnival, VIT.

Mentorship

  • Mentored new hires at ION Group on OOP, SOLID principles, debugging, and coding practices.
  • Authored a DSA repository (Code To Express) benefiting 250+ students at VIT.
// 07 — contact

Let's build something

I'm graduating in May 2027 and open to new-grad software engineering roles — especially in AI and distributed systems. Always up for a good conversation or a side project.

vineetkia@gmail.com