Harshavardhan Kalalbandi

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States3 yrs experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in building infrastructure for large language models.
Proficient in multi-agent systems and AI research.
Strong background in backend development and data engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused AI Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in data engineering and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesLarge Language Models (llm)Go (programming Language)Distributed SystemsNatural Language Processing (nlp)JavaSpring BootNode.jsMachine LearningExtract, Transform, Load (etl)Ios DevelopmentNodejs

Other Skills

Agentic AIAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentAngularAngularJSApache SparkBackend DevelopmentBig DataBudgetingCC (Programming Language)C++CUDACloud Computing

About

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Experience

3 yrs

Total Experience

10 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Lightning ai

Software Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos · Redmond, WA · On-site

Infrastructure for LLMs.
Lightning AI merged with Voltage Park.

KubernetesvLLMAmazon Web Services (AWS)Large Language Models (LLM)Slurm Workload Manager

Voltage park

Software Engineer

Oct 2025 – Jan 2026 · 3 mos · Redmond, WA · On-site

Building infra for LLMs
Merged with Lightning AI

KubernetesGo (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed SystemsLarge Language Models (LLM)

Innoflexion

Software Engineer

May 2025 – Oct 2025 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Working on Multi Agent LLM Systems for enterprise using NVIDIA Triton, vLLM, and Agentic Frameworks.

Large Language Models (LLM)Natural Language Processing (NLP)vLLMPythonMulti-agent SystemsAgentic AI

University of california, riverside

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2025 – Mar 2025 · 2 mos · Riverside, California, United States · On-site

University of pennsylvania

AI Research Intern

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024 · 3 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

Worked on LLM Reasoning and Hallucination in the Cognitive Computation Group under Prof. Dan Roth

PythonLarge Language Models (LLM)Natural Language Processing (NLP)HuggingfacePyTorch

Cisco

3 roles

Software Development Engineer 2

Promoted

Nov 2022 – Jul 2023 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Worked on a Java Spring Boot application, SQL optimizations and multithreaded transactional data processing for large-scale backend systems in the SC3 team.

JavaSpring BootAngularJSJenkinsOracle DatabaseSQL+1

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Built real-time backend services using TypeScript and MongoDB, and contributed to ML pipeline integration, and OracleDB-based SQL workflows.

SQLJavaScriptOracle DatabaseMongoDBNode.jsTensorFlow+7

Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2021 – Jul 2021 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Focused on developing an efficient ETL pipeline and automating sales transaction adjustments, leading to a 5x increase in system throughput.

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)TeradataPythonOracle Database

Skipy interactive

Software Development Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Bangalore

Developed a Node.js based payment gateway, engineered a Swift vector graphics animation module for iOS, and constructed an analytics pipeline using Google BigQuery, showcasing my skills in software development and data analytics.

iOS DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentNodeJSPayment SystemsFirebaseGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)+1