About Me
Hey, I’m Pranav! I most recently worked as an AI/ML vulnerability researcher at Cromulence, building and fine-tuning LLMs for code generation and document translation in air-gapped environments.
Outside of work, I’ve been building STEM Network — a city-scale IoT sensor network for monitoring urban street trees that won 1st place globally at Microsoft’s Azure IoT hackathon and landed real deployment funding from the City of Boulder.
I’m into the full stack of ML: from data curation pipelines and LoRA fine-tuning all the way down to embedded systems and LoRaWAN gateways.
Education
Purdue University — West Lafayette, IN | Aug 2024
- M.S., Computer and Information Technology
- B.S., Cybersecurity — Summa Cum Laude, Dean’s List (All Semesters)
- GPA: 3.8
Skills
From experience:
ML & AI
PyTorch HuggingFace Transformers PEFT / LoRA vLLM DeepSpeed DDP / FSDP GRPO MLflow LM Eval KV-cache Optimization
Data Engineering
Pandas cuDF PyArrow Parquet Elasticsearch SQL
Systems & Backend
C C# .NET Python Docker PostgreSQL Bash ELK Stack Kibana
Cloud & IoT
Microsoft Azure Azure IoT Hub LoRaWAN MQTT Tableau Denodo
From coursework:
Network Security
Snort Suricata Security Onion Zeek Nessus nmap Kali Linux pfSense
Infrastructure & Admin
VMware vSphere Active Directory BIND DNS DFS Windows Server CentOS