Shaurya Tiwari
Summary
AI Software Engineer specializing in production-grade agentic systems and data retrieval platforms working as a forward deployed engineer for 9+ verticals at U.S. News & World Report. Expertise in Django backends, LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, vector store usage (OpenSearch/FAISS), and streaming APIs. Proven ability to ship reliable AI integrated products with industry grade guardrail infrastructure support (legal compliance), from site search to B2B data analysis agentic tool with real time graph and csv generations, performing in ambiguous environments with strong cross-functional collaboration across multiple verticals.
Experience
U.S. News & World Report
Aug 2024 – Present- Architected ByteSage Django backend driving AI products with LangGraph agent workflows
- Implement RAG pipelines using OpenSearch/FAISS for semantic retrieval with metadata filtering
- Deploy streaming endpoints; harden reliability across dev/sandbox/UAT/prod environments
- Build guardrails and conditional routing for production-safe agentic tool execution
COAPS, Florida State University
May 2023 – May 2024- Built Python/Airflow pipelines processing 1M+ marine data points into PostgreSQL (10+ TB)
- Developed Django REST APIs serving 2M+ users/researchers with the marine data acquisition dashboards
Florida State University
Aug 2022 – Apr 2023- Engineered PyTorch/TensorFlow models achieving 0.92 F1-score for anomaly detection
- Reduced inference time 40% via custom CUDA kernels; boosted throughput 30% with GPU clustering
ACS Pvt. Ltd
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021- Maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube); cut MTTR 80% with AWS CloudWatch
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing deployment time by 60%
Cart Geek
Jun 2020 – Dec 2020- It was here where I was introduced to multiple CMS systems like Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, and Shopify.
- Implemented multiple extension based solutions for client sites supporting increase in traffic and clicks.
Selected Projects
Cerebral Valley Agent Hackathon - Agent IDE Mind Map (Nov 2025)
Using Antigravity IDE’s reasoning logs to generate mind map for tracking the development process with AI agents.
Portfolio AI Chatbot (May 2024)
RAG assistant with Llama 3, Chroma vector DB, LangChain for conversational resume queries.
Transformer from Scratch (Feb–Apr 2024)
Built text completion model implementing self-attention; tracked perplexity dynamics.
Medical Image Segmentation (Aug–Dec 2023)
Polyp detection model (PyTorch/OpenCV) achieving 0.92 DSC, 0.86 JC.
Skills
Languages
- Python
- C/C++ (CUDA)
- Java
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- SQL
AI/ML
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- RAG
- Vector Store
Data/Infra
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- Airflow
- OpenSearch
- Docker
- AWS
Tools/Observability
- Git
- Jenkins
- New Relic
- Snyk
- CloudWatch
Education
Florida State University
May 2024NMIMS University
Aug 2022Impact Snapshot
| Project / Impact | Tech Stack | Company & Date |
|---|---|---|
| Production AI workflows with tool orchestration and guardrails | Django, LangChain, LangGraph, DRF APIs | U.S. News (Present) |
| Improved system observability and reduced mean time to detect and report outages | New Relic, Slackbots, ByteSage | U.S. News (Present) |
| Real-time analytics platform serving 200k+ users across 125 schools | Python, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Django REST, React | COAPS (2023–2024) |
| High-performance anomaly detection (40% speedup) | PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA kernels | FSU (2022–2023) |
| Automated CI/CD smoketests reducing deployment risk 80% | Jenkins, Docker, AWS EC2/S3, CloudWatch | ACS (2021) |