Software Engineer - Email Like Messaging Security (ELMS) at Abnormal Security (2025-04 – Present)
Software Engineer working on Email Like Messaging Security
- Led and shipped the project, attachment malware scanning for Microsoft Teams, protecting 150+ enterprise customers; designed the service to handle 1,500 attachments/hr
- Scaled ELMS microservices (Python and Golang) 10× (100K → 1M+ messages/hr) by improving service concurrency, introducing multithreading in Python services, caching hot paths with Redis, and optimizing Kafka consumer polling
- Designed and shipped Behavioral Security for ELMS, built and fine-tuned BERT-based models to detect message intent and malicious patterns, and integrated them into the real-time detection pipeline
- Led redesign of ELMS frontend pages written in React, improving workflows for messaging security
Software Engineer at Commvault (2024-01 – 2025-04)
Software Engineer working on backend services and internal tools
- Implemented the retrieval stack for the Internal RAG Tool - Arlie using Azure AI Vector Search and MiniLM-based re-ranking to boost retrieval precision
- Developed backend services for the HyperscaleX platform using C++ and Python, and contributed to internal tools built with React
- Contributed to the 1-Touch Linux product including a UI migration from YAST to Electron, modernizing the Linux desktop recovery interface
Open Source Contributor at Code for GovTech (2023-07 – 2023-08)
Open Source Contributor focused on backend performance optimization
- Drove backend performance optimization across critical APIs, reducing response time from 3.4s to 200ms by eliminating N+1 query patterns, removing redundant SQL joins, and redesigning serializer-driven ORM access
- Built performance profiling and query analysis workflows using django-silk and custom middleware, enabling faster root-cause analysis of slow endpoints and more systematic performance tuning
- Improved backend reliability and maintainability by increasing test coverage from 45% to 90% and strengthening API validation with structured test suites and enum-based checks
