Daksh Sharma

Experience

Amazon

June 2020 – Present | Seattle, USA & Vancouver, Canada

Design and build RAG-based, highly available, secure, scalable, distributed Artificial Intelligence systems in a microservices architecture
Engineer E2E GenAI infrastructures like Chat Bots, Summarisations, Feedback Analysis, coordinating with Applied & Research Scientists
Own the DevOps during on-calls and maintain the systems based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements
Learnings: AWS Bedrock, Prompt Engineering, Distributed Computing, CI/CD, Security (AuthZ/N), Architecture & Backend Design, & DevOps

Orbis Investments

May 2019 – Aug 2019 | Vancouver, Canada

Built a .NET Global C# CLI tool to containerize an organization-wide microservice using Docker for scalability & cost-efficiency
Evaluated the impact of deploying the microservice to AWS EKS vs. in-house servers using benchmarked performance and bandwidth tests
Learning: Cloud Deployment (AWS & Kubernetes), Containerization (Docker), Frontend Design (Angular), REST APIs, & .NET (C#)

Verity Studios

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland

Developed firmware for a custom hardware platform in C++ to facilitate the downloading of drone flight telemetry logs, ensuring robust data collection and reliability
Designed and implemented a multi-layered communication protocol on top of UDP, which resulted in a 99% reduction in end-to-end data corruption during transmission, enhancing data integrity
Learning: Async Programming (C++), Protocol Design, Data Analytics (Python), Version Control (Git), & Automation (Jenkins & Cron)

UBC Computer Science Department

Sept 2018 – April 2019 | Vancouver, Canada

Mentored 150+ students by providing hands-on guidance in debugging, optimizing algorithms and design patterns, and structuring codebases

University of British Columbia (UBC) | Vancouver, Canada

91% | A+ | Top 3% Percentile | Valedictorian Speaker

Leader of Tomorrow ($250,000): Extremely selective full ride offered to 20 students per year based on academic and extracurricular achievements
Dean of Science Honor ($5,000): Scholarship offered to top 5% of undergraduate students
Trek Academic Excellence ($12,000): Scholarship offered based on Professor recommendations to Dean's office
Faculty of Science Honor ($10,000): Scholarship offered based on engagement with faculty via research