Software engineer · UKG

Vybavnag
Kandasamy.

I build the infrastructure that AI features run on, at UKG and on Gateway.

Vybavnag Kandasamy
What I'm building

Gateway

You design a system on a canvas, five AI agents review it while you draw, and the finished design turns into a running deployment.

Click any service to take it down and see what else fails with it.

Interactive cascade simulator. Open on desktop to click nodes and watch failures propagate.
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Where I've shipped

Experience

Aug 2025 – Present

UKG

Software Engineer I

Instrumented all AI pillar microservices with OpenTelemetry, enabling end-to-end distributed tracing and reducing mean time to debug production incidents by 40%.

AI/MLOpsOpenTelemetryGo
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Universal Audio

Software Engineer Capstone

Researched and developed a 4-input, 4-output audio device on a microcontroller with real-time DSP capabilities.

DSPC++FreeRTOS
Sep 2024 – Dec 2024

TextBuddy

Software Engineer Intern

Built an SMS-based application in Java/Spring enabling LLM access for users without internet connectivity.

LLMJavaSpring
Selected work

Projects

01 · Deep Learning

BitPredict

Walked the model zoo end-to-end, landed on an ensemble with MAPE 2.55% on Bitcoin price.

TensorFlowN-BEATSLSTMConv1DEnsembles

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02 · Deep Learning

SkimLit

Replicated the PubMed 200k RCT paper. Token, char, and positional embeddings hit 83% accuracy.

TensorFlowTransfer LearningUSEEmbeddingsConv1D

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03 · Deep Learning

Food Vision

Food101 classifier. Baseline, data augmentation, fine-tuning, hitting ~77% validation accuracy.

TensorFlowEfficientNetTransfer LearningData AugmentationTensorBoard

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04 · Machine Learning

AI Movie Recommender

Content-based recommender. Matches on genre, cast, director, and runtime, then ranks by IMDB score.

PythonPandasscikit-learn
05 · Machine Learning

Heart Failure Predictor

ML classifier predicting cardiovascular disease risk from clinical features.

Pythonscikit-learnPandas
06 · Machine Learning

House Price Predictor

End-to-end linear regression for housing prices with heavy feature engineering and EDA.

PythonPandasMatplotlibscikit-learn
07 · Systems

YouTube Clone

Upload, transcode, and stream pipeline. Built on Node.js, ffmpeg, GCS, and Firebase. Containerized.

Node.jsffmpegGCSFirebaseDocker

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08 · Systems

Discord Bot

discord.py bot that streams audio from YouTube URLs and moderates forbidden words/links.

Pythondiscord.pyffmpegyoutube_dl
09 · Systems

React Fish Market

React shopping cart with OAuth via GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

ReactOAuthJavaScript
What I work with

Skills

Deep Learning

3 projects

TensorFlow across time-series, NLP, and computer vision.

TensorFlowPyTorchNumPyPandasTransfer LearningEfficientNetN-BEATS

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AI / LLM

Gateway

Shipping LLM features that hold up in production.

Amazon BedrockGoogle ADKModel Context ProtocolLiteLLMAgentsPrompt design

See the Gateway case study →

MLOps / Observability

UKG · Current role

Tracing, evals, and feedback loops at production scale.

OpenTelemetryGrafanaArizeBigQueryPub/SubGoogle Cloud DLP

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Cloud & Infra

Gateway

From code to deployed: Terraform, ECS, CI/CD.

AWS (CCP)ECS + FargateTerraformDockerGitHub ActionsGCP

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Contact

Let's talk.

If you're working on AI infrastructure, developer tools, or anything where models meet real systems, I'd like to hear about it. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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