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Software Engineer • Data • AI

Vishal Srivastava

MS Data Science @ UC Irvine • Building what matters

Engineer, Researcher, Builder

My journey in software engineering has been driven by a deep curiosity for how technology transforms industries. From building enterprise-grade distributed data platforms in banking at Barclays, to deploying scalable AWS data pipelines for geospatial analytics, to pushing the boundaries of computer vision research at UC Irvine — each experience has deepened my conviction that great software engineering is about understanding the domain as deeply as the code.

I discovered my passion for engineering during my undergraduate years at SRM, where building my first distributed system showed me the elegance of solving complex problems through thoughtful architecture. This led me to Cognizant and MAQ Software, where I learned the discipline of enterprise-scale development. At Ford, I saw how automation and intelligent systems could transform manufacturing workflows. At Barclays, I experienced the rigor demanded by financial systems processing millions of transactions daily.

Now pursuing my MS in Data Science at UC Irvine, I'm at the intersection of my two greatest interests — scalable systems and artificial intelligence. Whether it's designing event-driven architectures, building ML pipelines, or crafting multi-agent AI systems, I'm energized by problems that require both engineering depth and creative thinking.

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Software Architecture

Event-driven systems, microservices, distributed platforms, cloud-native design

AI & Machine Learning

ML pipelines, LLMs, multi-agent AI systems, computer vision research

Data Engineering

Medallion architecture, Kafka streaming, ETL pipelines, analytics platforms

Cloud & DevOps

AWS infrastructure, Terraform IaC, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines

Academic Background

University of California, Irvine

Master of Science in Data Science
Sep 2024 – Dec 2025
Irvine, California, USA

SRM Institute of Science & Technology

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
Jul 2017 – Jun 2021
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Where I've Worked

What I've Built

Technical Toolkit

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Every problem is an invitation to build something that didn't exist before."
— Alan Kay (adapted)

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