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KAYAAN
THARANI

Computer Engineering · University of Waterloo · Co-op

I build systems at the intersection of AI and infrastructure — from data center network research to LLM training pipelines and mobile AI inference engines.

co-ops completed04

primary stackPython · C++ · Go

locationWaterloo, ON

next availableJan 2027

view_work.sh ↓resume.pdf ↗github ↗linkedin ↗

cat profile.json

name:kayaan tharani

school:uwaterloo

type:swe · systems · ai

status:open to work

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Ongoing

Cactus (YC W25)

/Core Contributor

Open-source on-device AI inference engine. Contributed kernel-level optimizations (ARM NEON, Apple AMX) and inference pipeline improvements for mobile and edge devices.

C++ARM NEONAMXOn-Device AI

Jan – Apr 2026

Brooklyn, NY

Senpilot

/Software Engineering Intern

Built AI data pipelines and multi-agent systems to automate regulatory compliance analysis at scale.

PythonTemporalGCPLiteLLMVertex AIRedisDocker

May – Aug 2025

Waterloo, ON

Huawei Canada

/SWE Intern · Data Center Network Research

Simulated and optimized AI cluster network traffic on leaf-spine topologies for data center network research.

C++ns-3htsimRoCEv2RDMADCQCN

Sep – Dec 2024

Mississauga, ON

IESO

/Software Developer

Built full-stack internal tooling to automate contract management workflows.

RESTOracle SQLJDBCAgile

Jan – Apr 2024

Toronto, ON

Toronto Transit Commission

/Software Analyst

Scripted enterprise app deployments and Windows provisioning across a large endpoint fleet.

PowerShellBashPXECAF/DSM

Jun – Aug 2023

Edmonton, AB

RESA Power

/Engineering Intern

Developed Python scripts to parse and visualize SCADA time-series data for anomaly detection.

PythonSCADAPLCMatplotlib

›cat ./projects/*.json

PERSONAL PROJECT

EPOCH

"Vercel for model training"

CLI platform for end-to-end LLM fine-tuning. Train with LoRA/QLoRA, evaluate against standard benchmarks, and deploy to HuggingFace Hub — with a live web dashboard synced to the CLI.

PythonPyTorchHuggingFaceRunPodLoRAQLoRA

PERSONAL PROJECT

VESTIGE

LLM observability & CI testing platform

Python SDK captures LLM-agent traces as OpenTelemetry spans, normalized into ClickHouse. A GitHub Action replays traces via pg-boss jobs and gates PRs on output diffs — deterministic CI for AI agents.

PythonTypeScriptOpenTelemetryClickHouseGitHub Actions

AI INFRA · IN PROGRESS

HOMELAB

Single-node private cloud for AI workloads

Kubernetes (kubeadm, Cilium eBPF) and OpenStack on one 16GB box, deployed by GitOps. Rook-Ceph for storage, ArgoCD for reconciliation, Tailscale for zero-trust access — fitting CNI, distributed storage, observability, and model serving into a tight RAM budget.

KubernetesCiliumRook-CephArgoCDGitOpsOpenStack

PROJECT

LOAD BALANCER

Custom reverse proxy + real-time dashboard

Go reverse proxy with least-connections and per-backend health checks on AWS EC2. Nginx HTTP termination, systemd supervision, Chart.js dashboard for live traffic visualization.

GoAWS EC2NginxSystemdChart.js

PROJECT · ERNST & YOUNG

FLAME FORECASTER

Alberta wildfire severity prediction

ML pipeline forecasting wildfire intensity and burned area across Alberta FSA zones. XGBoost + Random Forest with regional vulnerability assessment and feature importance analysis.

PythonXGBoostRandom Forestscikit-learnPandas

›env | grep -E 'LANGUAGES|TOOLS|LIBRARIES'

LANGUAGES

GoPythonC/C++TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaSQLBashVHDLRISC-V ASMMATLAB

TOOLS

LinuxGitDockerKubernetesAWSNginxSystemdPostgreSQLOracle SQLSupabaseCI/CD

LIBRARIES

PyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowOpenCVPandasMatplotlibSeabornFlaskReactns-3htsim

PROTOCOLS

RoCEv2RDMADCQCNECMPRESTJDBC

EDUCATION

University of Waterloo

BASc. Honors Computer Engineering, Co-op

Data Structures · Systems Programming · Digital Circuits (VHDL) · Assembly · Numerical Methods

Sep 2023 – Apr 2028