About
A closer look at the systems, responsibilities, and technical foundations behind my work.
About
I am a software engineer working where security, platform engineering, and data-intensive systems meet. At IBM, I help build and operate software-supply-chain, vulnerability-management, compliance, and data-platform capabilities at enterprise scale.
My work spans backend services, distributed processing, cloud-native delivery, data modeling, performance engineering, and practical AI-assisted workflows. I care about systems that are inspectable, resilient, and useful—not technology for its own sake.
This site is where I document that work, publish what I learn, and keep a durable record of projects and research.
Experience
2022
- Present
IBM
Software Engineer, Security
Durham, NC
- Designed, automated, and operated secure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services for large-scale software delivery in collaboration with security and product stakeholders.
- Integrated software-composition and container-image scanning into Tekton pipelines, enabling real-time compliance visibility during zero-day events across more than 1,800 products.
- Designed AI-assisted reporting workflows with Watsonx Orchestrate and Watsonx.data, including decision branches, automated approvals, triggers, and connectors supporting 20 daily workflows.
- Built Slack-based compliance workflows that aggregate vulnerability status, handle report requests, and route severity-based alerts.
- Built asynchronous FastAPI services with Celery and RabbitMQ to process more than 10 GB of vulnerability data daily.
- Improved PostgreSQL queries by as much as 105× through time-based partitioning, composite indexes, and query-driven tuning.
- Reduced cloud storage costs by 54% through schema redesign, deduplication, PostgreSQL TOAST optimization, and GIN indexing.
- Delivered more than 100 CycloneDX-conformant SBOMs with automated generation, artifact versioning, and distribution aligned with CISA guidance, FedRAMP audit needs, and security-review timelines.
- Implemented an Apache Iceberg and Presto data lakehouse on Watsonx.data, then moved security-data ingestion to a near-real-time StreamSets pipeline that reduced availability latency from 24 hours to 15 minutes.
- Deployed containerized microservices through Kubernetes, Tekton, ArgoCD, and OpenShift ROKS.
- Codified disaster-recovery workflows and reusable Terraform modules supporting a three-hour recovery time.
- Applied RBAC, ABAC, column-level encryption, centralized secrets management, structured audit logging, event tracing, and compliance-focused observability to sensitive security data.
- Presented infrastructure and application architecture to senior stakeholders and the Security Review Board, including trade-offs, attack vectors, and mitigation guardrails.
2020
DePronto Infotech
Software Engineer
Mumbai, India
- Designed a multidimensional SQL-generation engine from user-authored HTML rules and implemented asynchronous APIs, improving query performance by 60% and accelerating KPI report generation by 40%.
- Built parsing and temporary-table workflows to reduce repeated subqueries and streamline data processing.
- Connected the application to Amazon S3 for SAP data uploads and wrote PostgreSQL procedures to normalize the incoming data.
- Worked with quality-assurance testers while delivering a full-stack application for an insurance-industry client.
2019
Aliter Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
IoT Developer Intern
Mumbai, India
- Developed a working prototype for a pick-to-light system, contributing to both its hardware design and software.
- Established device communication over RF433 and Wi-Fi and implemented message transfer with MQTT.
- Worked with the client and system designers to translate product requirements into the prototype.
RGIT Code Cell
Mentor
Mumbai, India
- Mentored junior students through programming assignments as part of a departmental coding community.
- Helped organize Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology’s first hackathon in March 2020.
2018
Computer Education Student Society
Mentor and Web Developer
Mumbai, India
- Developed and maintained the society’s website for a year.
- Organized and participated in technical workshops for computer-engineering students.
Education
2021
Master of Science · Computer Science
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC
Graduate study in computer science, completed in May 2023.
2016
Bachelor of Engineering · Computer Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, University of Mumbai · Mumbai, India
Undergraduate study in computer engineering, including algorithms, database systems, web technologies, software engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural-language processing, and big-data analytics.
Publications
2020
Autonomous Home Security System Using Internet of Things and Machine Learning
Innovative Data Communication Technologies and Application, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, Volume 46, Springer · Uzair Chhapra, Sagar Ambilpure, Aditya Chavan, Varnesh Gawde
PublishedPresented at ICIDCA 2019 and published by Springer, this work explores an IoT home-security system that uses machine learning and computer vision to make entry decisions and notify the homeowner.
Charging Buddy: A Secured Charging Station Using Internet of Things
2020 2nd International Conference on Innovative Mechanisms for Industry Applications (ICIMIA), IEEE · Uzair Chhapra, Aditya Chavan, Sagar Ambilpure, Dnyaneshwar P. Kapse
PublishedPresented and published research on an IoT-based secure public charging station that combines controlled locker access with mobile-device charging.