Purdue University | B.S. Computer Science (Cybersecurity Focus)

Harshith Suresh.

AWS Certifications

Associate Level

Solutions Architect Associate

Foundational

Certified Cloud Practitioner

01. Professional Experience

Software Engineering Intern (Network Infrastructure) @ Tesla Inc.

Aug 2025 — Dec 2025
  • Engineered real-time NextJS/React based network topology visualization with live traffic heatmaps and alerts, cutting MTTR for latency and congestion by 50%.
  • Strengthened network observability and security audit capabilities by enhancing scrapers to ingest critical routing tables, VLANs, DNS, ARP, DHCP and BGP data.
  • Accelerated network intelligence by designing a RAG pipeline that reduced complex metric query time by 90% for instant natural-language audits.
  • Scaled AI infrastructure by implementing Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and Grafana monitoring for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

Cybersecurity Consultant Intern @ Crowe LLP

June 2025 — Aug 2025
  • Accelerated HITRUST certification readiness by identifying and remediating critical configuration gaps in Active Directory and network architecture.
  • Strengthened client security by executing penetration tests and audits against common CVEs, reducing potential attack surfaces by 60%.
  • Improved consultant productivity by 75% by automating the deployment of standardized security testing environments using Ansible and Packer.

Software Engineering Intern @ Mechasense.io

Dec 2024 — April 2025
  • Developed predictive maintenance models (KNN, XGBoost) for HVAC IoT sensor data, achieving 90% accuracy in detecting failure patterns.
  • Engineered synthetic data generation pipeline to augment HVAC datasets and implemented time-series anomaly detection logic.
  • Fine-tuned a 7B-parameter Mistral model using LoRA on synthetic HVAC time-series data to predict failures.

Security Engineering Intern @ Munich Re

June 2024 — Aug 2024
  • Mitigated data breach risks by engineering an automated Malware Scanning pipeline on Azure for SFTP server isolation.
  • Reduced deployment errors and improved network isolation by implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Reduced onboarding friction for internal developers by authoring technical documentation for Azure and Terraform integration.

Security Engineering Intern @ SecureX.ai

June 2022 — Aug 2022
  • Built a BeautifulSoup based web-scraper to extract CVEs, CVSS scores, and exploit data from NVD and ExploitDB.
  • Contextualized threats based on environment and asset criticality to determine true threat impact.
  • Containerized microservices using Docker and deployed them to EKS cluster through Jenkins pipeline.

02. Technical Skills

Programming

Python Java C/C++ Go SQL PromQL TypeScript Bash

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Azure Prometheus Grafana Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible BGP/OSPF ZTP

Cybersecurity

Nmap Nessus Metasploit Wireshark IAM Security HITRUST Active Directory

03. Projects

Lecture Study Assistant

  • Local Video RAG system for analyzing lecture videos and creating quizzes/concept reviews.
  • Integrated EasyOCR for image text extraction, Whisper for audio transcription, and PGvector for embeddings.
  • Employed Mistral LLM and Nomic Embedding model with FastAPI and Next.js.
#AI #FastAPI #Next.js

Geothermal IoT Sensing

Pub/Sub telemetry system monitoring geothermal thermal profiles via MQTT and Telegraf for secure ingestion into InfluxDB.

#IoT #InfluxDB #Networking

Library Management Project

  • Developed library management web app with Python, Flask, React, and SQLAlchemy.
  • Deployed on GCP App Engine with MySQL instance, using Nginx and Gunicorn.
  • Optimized with normalization, indexes, and serializable concurrency for conflict-free borrowing.
#GCP #Flask #React

Emotion Detection & Music App

  • Built a CNN model with Keras and OpenCV to predict emotions with 75% accuracy.
  • Integrated Spotify API to recommend music via a Flask-powered web application.
  • Containerized with Docker and deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk via Travis CI/CD.
#DeepLearning #AWS #Docker

04. Writing

Documenting my engineering journey.