Dheeraj Gajula

Software & Network Engineer

EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer – 1

Versa Networks

Bangalore, India

June 2024 – Aug 2025

▸Developed REST APIs in GoLang and Cassandra that serve 3000+ reqs/s; reported metrics via Prometheus and built Grafana dashboards
▸Performed quantitative and qualitative analysis of VirusTotal malicious feed data; built Python/BigQuery pipelines and a mathematical reinforcement model to predict results
▸Containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes and deployed to GCP

Software Engineer – Intern

Versa Networks

Bangalore, India

Feb 2024 – June 2024

▸Automated device-usage tracking, reducing billing time from 7 days to under an hour
▸Analyzed inconsistent logs and built anomaly-detection systems and state machines to track device states
▸Modeled hierarchical director logs with MongoDB and Python and surfaced insights via Prometheus/Grafana
▸Built services with Flask and FastAPI and deployed using Docker / Docker Compose

Machine Learning – Intern

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore, India

May 2023 – Aug 2023

▸aerospace lab at IISC Bangalore.
▸enhancing and fusion of images from different sensors in a drone
▸built custom histogram equations to enhance night image from drone , which improved the performance of the object recognition using YOLO by ~15%

Data Science – Intern

AppSynergy

Remote

Jan 2024 – April 2024

▸Worked on an app named Minglewise and reduced fake profiles on the platform by 35% by ensemble of 3 models
▸Used Regex and NER to detect issued with Bio for a specific profile, used HuggingFace model to detect cartoon profile pictures
▸Fine Tuned ResNet for detecting Gender mismatch, used DeepFace to detect multiple people in Profile Photo
▸Used FastAPI for making it as service, deployed it in GCP using Cloud Run by building a Docker image

Machine Learning research fellowship

Indian Institute of technology

May 2023 – Jan 2024

▸Built a system that will provide loans for the underprivileged without a collateral , just based on their spending habits
▸Used Name Entity Recognition and RNN to extract required data from the SMS like spending habits and Income of the user
▸Used K-Means clustering to classify the user into different personas based on the data extracted with 78% accuracy
▸Built a Face Login algorithm using DeepFace and detected liveliness of the user while logging in using Eye-tracking and OpenCV
▸Used FastAPI for making it as service, deployed it in AWS in EC2 used NGINX to route to the service

Amazon summer school

Amazon

May 2023 – Aug 2023

▸Selected for Amazon summer school from 5000+ applicants across India
▸Built a system to detect and prevent fake reviews on Amazon using a combination of NLP and machine learning techniques
▸Used HuggingFace transformers to analyze review text and detect patterns indicative of fake reviews
▸Implemented a real-time monitoring system that flags suspicious reviews for further investigation

PROJECTS

Sept 2025 – Present

Enterprise Network Lab

STP, DHCP, EIGRP, RIP, Wireshark, Wireless, VLANs

•Built fault-tolerant Cisco enterprise networks with VLANs, trunking, STP/RSTP, and HSRP for redundancy
•Configured wireless LANs, DHCP, NAT/PAT, and inter-VLAN routing for Internet and internal connectivity
•Implemented RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF multi-area routing with redistribution and convergence tuning
•Validated network behavior using Wireshark, ping/trace, and IOS tools for routing and failover

Fall 2025

Advanced Enterprise Networks

OSPF, RSVP-TE, MPLS, IPsec, NAT, IPv6

•Designed multi-site enterprise and ISP-style networks with MPLS and RSVP-TE tunnels and bandwidth guarantees
•Integrated IPv4/IPv6 connectivity with IPsec-encrypted tunnels and OSPFv2/v3 routing
•Configured NAT, stateful NAT, and IPv4–IPv6 translation (NAT-PT) where required
•Ensured fault tolerance, redundancy, and secure communication across multiple sites

Sept 2025 – Present

Network Applications

C++, Network Programming

•Built a multi-threaded TCP/UDP HTTP web server and HTTP caching proxy in C/C++ with request parsing and hostname validation
•Implemented persistent connections, pipelining, MD5-based page caching, and reliable UDP transfers (Stop-and-Wait, Go-Back-N)
•Added concurrent request processing via threading/forking, background prefetching, and MD5 hash-based caching
•Developed a DFS in C with chunking, redundancy, and client/server commands (list/get/put)

Sept 2025 – Present

Home Lab

Linux, Virtualization, WireGuard, Docker, Cloudflare

•Maintain a home lab (https://index.dheerajg.me) hosting multiple services with WireGuard access and Docker-based deployments
•Use backups and virtualization to ensure redundancy and safe experimentation

2024

Schizo AI

Python, TensorFlow, Explainable AI

•Built a project exploring explainable AI models for schizophrenia diagnosis and symptom analysis using Grad-CAM and finetuned RESNET models on medical imaging datasets
•Presented research at the International Conference for Advanced Data Driven Intelligence (ICADDI) in 2024

2022

Tenali

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Flask, FastAPI, GCP

•Winner of Smart India Hackathon 2022. Built Tenali, an AI-powered legal assistant to save court time during hearings by providing real-time insights and information retrieval
•Implemented NLP techniques for document analysis and information extraction, and deployed the backend using Flask/FastAPI on GCP
•Built an AI-powered legal assistant to save court time during hearings by providing real-time insights and information retrieval
•Implemented NLP techniques for document analysis and information extraction, and deployed the backend using Flask/FastAPI on GCP

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Concepts and protocols

TCP/IPIPv4IPv6ARPICMPSTPDNSDHCPNATRIPOSPFSNMPMPLSGNS3

Languages

GoLangPythonC/C++SQL (Postgres)Bash

Frameworks & Database

FlaskFastAPIPostgresBigQueryCassandraMongoDBPrometheusFirebase

Developer Tools

GitDockerDocker ComposeKubernetesGCPGrafanaAWSNGINXWireGuard

Libraries

pandasNumPyMatplotlibTensorFlowOpenCVscikit-learnSeabornNLTK

EDUCATION

Aug 2025 – May 2027

Master's in Computer Science — Network Engineering

GPA: 3.8/4.0

University of Colorado – Boulder

Boulder, CO

KEY COURSEWORK:

Enterprise NetworksNetwork SystemsMachine Learning

Nov 2020 – May 2024

Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering

GPA: 3.76/4.0

Dayanada Sagar College of Engineering

Bangalore, India

KEY COURSEWORK:

Data structures and algorithmsDatabase systemsOperating systemsComputer NetworksCloud ComputingAutomata Theory

ACHIEVEMENTS

Explainable AI in the context of Schizophrenia

Presented undergrad thesis at International Conference for Advanced Data Driven Intelligence. Built Schizo AI project exploring explainable AI models.

2024

Smart India Hackathon Winner

Innovative solutions to save Court's time during hearings. Built project Tenali as backend engineer.

2022

UNESCO India Africa Hackathon Finalist

Energy flow optimization. Selected from 200 students from India. Received Best Contributors award.

2023

CONTACT ME

GET IN TOUCH

I'm always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your vision.

dheeraj.gajula@colorado.edu

Boulder, CO