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.