Headline

SWE | Distributed Systems, AI Agent Evaluation | CMU SCS

About

I'm a Software Development Engineer with 4+ years of experience building distributed systems and event-driven backend platforms at scale. My work spans Kafka-based streaming architectures, cloud-native microservices, and production ownership, including owning support for a live derivatives trading system at Bank of America as the sole India-based contact for a US trading team. I hold a Master's in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, with a focus on distributed systems and cloud computing. Most recently, I've been designing evaluation frameworks for LLM agent behavior working at the intersection of backend engineering and applied AI. I enjoy taking ambiguous, large-scale problems and turning them into systems that hold up under real production load. Currently exploring roles in distributed systems and AI/ML backend engineering. More about my work: https://resume-chatbot-frontend-puce.vercel.app/

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude

codex

cursor

huggingface

Work experience

Software Engineer, AI Agent Evaluation at Mercor, May 2026 - Present · 5 mos, India, • Architected multi-turn simulation environments for LLM agent evaluation, engineering realistic terminal/filesystem worlds and multi-app data pipelines using structured JSON schemas. • Designed evaluation frameworks (binary rubric criteria, golden trajectory specifications, decision logic) to benchmark AI agent behavior at scale. • Leveraged backend systems expertise (Java/Spring Boot, shell scripting) to model production-grade deployment scenarios for AI agent stress testing.

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Quality Assurance at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Jul 2024 - Dec 2024 · 6 mos, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Provided support during and outside office hours as a Teaching Assistant for Quality Assurance.

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Engineering Data Intensive Scalable Systems at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Mar 2024 - Jun 2024 · 4 mos, Pittsburgh, PA, • Assisted students with AWS cloud computing assignments, providing support during and outside office hours as a Teaching Assistant for EDISS. • Maintained academic platforms like Gradescope, ensuring smooth operation.

Software Engineer 1A at Bank of America, Jun 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hyderabad, • Owned production support for MLDP (Merrill Lynch Derivative Products), Merrill Lynch's counterparty-trading guarantee vehicle, as sole India-based contact for the US trading team. • Built automation tooling saving 10 team-hours weekly; improved production batch stability by 85%, reducing SLA breaches. • Streamlined cross-timezone outage resolution and change requests while supervising a team of junior engineers.

Software Engineer at Brillio, Jul 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, • Migrated a SOAP based application to REST, adding JDBC for database-application connection. • Conducted extensive unit and endpoint testing using Postman, achieving 85% coverage. • Enabled SQL to Cassandra data migration in Verizon's 5G domain via APIs, a multi-source pipeline, and automation scripts/documentation (LLD, HLD, flow diagrams).

Associate Software Engineer at Accenture, Aug 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr, India, • Reduced VeevaCRM downtime by 20% via Salesforce + Splunk dashboards • Ranked Top 4 in Accenture x Salesforce Hackathon 2021.

Education

Master's degree, Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

Public links

github: https://github.com/apriya-gif

medium: https://medium.com/@apriya.gcp

resume-chatbot-frontend-puce.vercel.app: https://resume-chatbot-frontend-puce.vercel.app/