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Avi Solanki

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable AI systems.
  • Proven track record in frontend development.
  • Strong background in cloud management solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineer with expertise in AI and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Machine LearningFrontend DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentComputer Vision

Other Skills

Retrieval-Augmented GenerationGraph networksAgentic WorkflowsNamed Entity RecognitionBERTspaCyCloud managementQuery UnderstandingDisambiguationFrontend frameworksHybrid multi-cloud managementWebpackNode.jsUI generationSecurity policies

About

Like building solutions to tough problems. Self-directed engineer. I ship 0 to 1 and scale 1 to n, owning architecture, code and design. Strengths: Frontend, system design, distributed systems, Hands on AI, UI UX. Fast, clear, collaborative. Any domain. Blog: avisolanki.substack.com

Experience

5 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Cisco

3 roles

Software Engineer III

Promoted

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Building Enterprise AI & LLM Systems | Retrieval Augmented Generation, Graph networks, and Agentic Workflows
  • Key Achievements & Focus Areas
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems : Designed and deployed a scalable RAG pipeline for unstructured enterprise data, combined with knowledge graph powered structured retrieval and built-in cloud usage recommendations.
  • Named Entity Recognition (NER) Pipeline – Developed an end-to-end NER system with auto-annotation capabilities, fine-tuned BERT + spaCy, and integrated it with data chunking, ingestion, and retrieval workflows.
  • Built Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to seamlessly connect back-office & IT systems, enhancing the user experience on our multi-cloud management platform.
  • Query Understanding & Disambiguation : Created a query rewriter and multi-label disambiguation framework to resolve intent conflicts and improve search precision.
  • Building agentic workflows for frictionless cloud provisioning & orchestration, allowing users to deploy infrastructure through natural language and intuitive UI actions.
  • Evaluation Frameworks : Designing robust eval pipelines to benchmark LLM and retrieval system performance in real-world enterprise settings.
Retrieval-Augmented GenerationGraph networksAgentic WorkflowsNamed Entity RecognitionBERTspaCy+5

Software Engineer ll - Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure at Cisco

Promoted

Nov 2022Nov 2024 · 2 yrs

  • Contributed and Led the design of frontend frameworks of Cisco’s hybrid multi-cloud management platform, enabling seamless provisioning, governance, and operations across Public, Private, SaaS, and XaaS environments. This solution powers $50B+ in revenue generation by streamlining infrastructure access for internal and external stakeholders
  • Key Achievements
  • Architected, Designed and Implemented scalable design patterns and conducting design reviews for prototypes and mockups to ensure high usability maintainability and performance.
  • Reduced Webpack bundle size by 77%, cutting platform load times from an average of 6s to under 2s; performed multiple Webpack upgrades to leverage modern build optimizations.
  • Upgraded Node.js from v14 to v22 across a 200,000+ LOC , ensuring zero breaking changes while modernizing the tech stack.
  • Automated service onboarding for cloud provider customers, removing manual service contract creation and delivering an end-to-end UI with complex backend orchestration, tripling onboarding throughput and accelerating time-to-market.
  • Built automatic UI generation for cloud provider services with no manually written code, enabling faster onboarding of new offerings.
  • Integrated security policies and governance at scale in collaboration with Cisco’s Security & Trust Organization, enforcing compliance across 10,000+ tenants and 100,000+ accounts spanning public cloud, private cloud, and infrastructure services.
  • Designed seamless, persona driven visual interfaces and dashboards for executives, admins, and end users enabling on-demand summaries, dynamic widget creation, and dashboards generated on the fly.
  • Created a rule-builder framework that allows cloud service providers to add conditional onboarding logic via automation, auto-integrated into form validations during customer ordering.
  • Migrated test suites from Jest + Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL) within 6 months, improving test coverage and maintainability.
Frontend frameworksHybrid multi-cloud managementWebpackNode.jsUI generationSecurity policies+2

Emerging Talent Cisco, India Core Team

Sep 2022May 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • We are an Inclusion and Collaboration community that aims to bring together Cisco's young and new talent throughout the globe. With local chapters in every region, we aim to connect and form communities with as many emerging talent employees as possible

Software engineering research center, iiit hyderabad

2 roles

Winter Intern

Dec 2019Feb 2020 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • A Fine Grained Approach to Develop Domain Specific Search Engine. Validated for Information Security Domain building SIREN (Security Information Retrieval and Extraction eNgine).
  • The work was funded by DST, Government of India

Summer Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos

  • Open source development for their website
  • http://vlabs.iiit.ac.in/
  • Fastest intern to complete 4 projects in record time, along with completing a 120-hour project in less than 24 hours.
  • Projects were based on Neural machine translation, Compilers for ARM ,computer graphics and computer architecture. Each project was created from scratch in JS and Python.

Hug innovations llp & corp ( acquired by titan )

Summer Intern 2018

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Created a fall detection app for smarwatches
  • In addition to above, I also multi tasked as an embedded system engineer. Received certificate of excellence from the CEO.

Parikshit student satellite

Computer Vision and Image processing, Parikshit Nano-Satellite team ( under ISRO's guidance)

Nov 2017Nov 2019 · 2 yrs · Manipal ,Karnataka

  • Accomplished Blind motion de-blurring of satellite images using Dark channel priors and GANS.
  • Accomplished false coloring of thermal images , and created a GUI for quantifying the thermal parameters of the image.
  • Worked on lossless compression of satellite images
Image ProcessingComputer VisionGUI Development

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech

Sep 2022Oct 2024

Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jan 2017Jan 2021

Jayshree Periwal International School - India

AISSCE — Computer Science

Jun 2017Present

CHIREC International School

SSC — Science

Jul 2015Present

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