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MITB’27 | Ex-Intern @ Microsoft, xAI | Winner @ Atos National Hackathon, Unstop Flipr Hackathon

About

I'm a Computer Science student at Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, focused on backend systems and infrastructure that holds up under real load. I interned on Microsoft's Security Copilot team, where I designed a 6-stage memory extraction pipeline for Security Agents and cut retrieval latency by up to 65%. I also built the benchmarking framework used to validate it against existing approaches, comparing precision, recall, and nDCG across 50+ synthetic evaluation conversations. Before that, I worked on AI model evaluation at xAI, stress-testing Grok's responses across 10,000+ prompts and running structured red-teaming to identify failure modes, improving response safety and consistency by over 95%. At Maidaan, I built a real-time tournament management dashboard with role-based access, and fixed a production issue caused by mismanaged event listeners before it caused repeated downtime. I built IronTest, a multi-agent QA pipeline that turns raw Jira stories into test suites with automated edge-case coverage, and it won the ATOS National Hackathon against 3000+ teams. I also built Sendlr, an event-driven newsletter system with retry and idempotency logic holding 98%+ delivery success at 150-300ms latency. I work primarily in Java, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with a focus on systems that fail predictably and recover fast. Currently looking for SDE/SWE internship and full-time roles where I can keep building things that need to actually work.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

elevenlabs

github copilot

hugging face

langgraph

Work experience

Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft, May 2026 - Jul 2026 · 2 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Interned with the Security Copilot Team at Microsoft - Designed and shipped a production 6-stage memory extraction pipeline, moving from one-shot extraction to structured salience filtering, classification, and confidence scoring. - Built a benchmarking framework across precision, recall, F1, nDCG, and MRR, creating 50+ synthetic evaluation conversations to validate quality gains. - Cut memory retrieval latency by up to 65% (20-30s to 7-15s) through parallel processing and backend optimization. - Evaluated retrieval architectures inspired by Mem0, Generative Agents, and Hebbian Learning to inform system design.

Artificial Intelligence Intern at xAI, Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 · 3 mos, Remote, Worked on Grok models - Evaluated and red-teamed Grok model responses across 10,000+ prompts, covering adversarial and edge-case scenarios. - Ran structured prompt engineering to surface failure modes across model behavior. - Improved response safety and consistency by 95%+ through systematic error analysis. - Partnered with engineers using structured rubrics and feedback loops to validate findings.

Software Engineer Intern at Freedom From Poverty, Nov 2025 - Jan 2026 · 3 mos, Canada, Built Production Features for an NGO Serving 500+ Users - Shipped web features on a live platform for Freedom From Poverty Foundation using Next.js and React - Designed Razorpay donation flows with failure recovery handling for uninterrupted transactions resulting in 80% reduction in failed transactions. - Integrated OAuth authentication and role-based access control, strengthening security in a live production environment.

Contributor at GirlScript Summer of Code, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos, Remote

Automation Engineer Intern at Freelancer.com, Aug 2025 - Oct 2025 · 3 mos, Collaborated with foreign B2B brands, aligning automation workflows with business goals. - Automated LinkedIn outreach with Google Apps Script + Sheets, cutting manual effort by 80%. - Built workflows in Make/Zapier to send requests, track responses, and trigger timely follow-ups. - Integrated PhantomBuster API at scale, keeping error rates under 2% across thousands of runs. - Designed monitoring scripts and validation checks, sustaining near 100% uptime.

Software Engineer Intern at Maidaan, Jun 2025 - Sep 2025 · 3 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Ran Real-Time Tournament Infrastructure at Maidaan - Built a bulk tournament management dashboard with role-based access and live commentary using React, Node.js, and the Gemini API. - Debugged and resolved a critical production issue from mismanaged real-time event listeners, preventing repeated downtime. - Wrote Node.js scripts to pool 15,000+ student profiles using batch requests and exponential backoff with Firebase. - Improved system reliability through debugging, data validation, and UI refinements.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Artificial Intelligence, Manipal institute of technology

Seth M. R. Jaipuria School Lucknow

Public links

github: https://github.com/ishan1603

medium: https://medium.com/@ishan16

ishandev.vercel.app: https://ishandev.vercel.app/