01Enterprise AI analytics
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard
Backend foundations for an enterprise dashboard that helps leaders understand Copilot adoption, deployment, and organizational impact.
Software engineer · AI systems researcher
I build systems that are useful, secure, and ready to scale.
I’m Kshitij, a UW Graduate student and Software Engineer in Seattle. I've spent five years shipping software at Microsoft and now build AI agents and evaluation systems at UW’s eScience Institute.
60Musers reached monthly
90%infrastructure cost reduction
500K+premium users served
5+ yrsshipping production systems
Selected work
Engineering with evidence.
A selection of production systems, research prototypes, and agentic workflows — each framed around the problem, the decisions, and the outcome.
02Agentic software engineering
Aleena: Alignment Agent for Engineering
An LLM-powered collaboration layer that turns project conversations into durable context, decisions, issues, and review support.
03AI-assisted application security
SecROI
A security analysis workflow that scans public repositories, identifies attack vectors, and produces severity-ranked remediation guidance.
04Social network analysis
Ideological clustering on Bluesky
A study of engagement across 2,900+ users and 77 feeds to understand ideological clustering, overlap, and filter-bubble behavior.
What I bring
From model behavior to production reliability.
My work sits where AI meets systems engineering: turning promising capabilities into software that can be evaluated, operated, secured, and trusted.
AI systems & agents
LLM agents, RAG, evaluation systems, embeddings, synthetic personas, and reliable workflow integration.
Backend & distributed systems
High-scale services, service boundaries, data integrations, observability, and operational reliability.
Cloud, security & delivery
Cloud-native deployments, CI/CD, authentication, access tokens, certificates, and secure system design.
Experience
Built across research and industry.
AI research at UW, enterprise systems at Microsoft, and conversational AI at Avaamo.
Full experienceUniversity of Washington eScience Institute · SSEC
Graduate Researcher — AI Systems
Building LLM-powered systems for research engineering collaboration and evaluation infrastructure for sensitive conversational agents.
Microsoft · Viva Insights
Software Engineer II
Built enterprise analytics platforms and secure backend infrastructure for Copilot and Viva Insights.
Microsoft · Viva Insights
Software Engineer
Led high-scale email experiences and backend services for hybrid-work products.
Microsoft · MileIQ
Software Engineer
Owned a production reporting service and its cloud delivery infrastructure.
Writing
Notes from a curious mind.
The blog began in 2020 as a place to think in public. It remains an archive for technical notes, observations, and the ideas I want to understand better.
Purposes and Goals of Life
Thinking through the difference between short-term goals and a long-term purpose that continues to motivate us.
David's Vlogs
A reflection on the pacing, recurring characters, generosity, and simple fun in David Dobrik's vlogs.
I'm a hungry bear
Why I started writing about the things I learn and the ideas that stay in my head.