AI/ML & Cloud Engineer

Varun Shelke is an AI Engineer at the Pitt AWS Cloud Innovation Center, currently finishing an M.S. in Information Science (3.9 GPA, May 2026). He possesses 4+ years of enterprise software engineering experience, including leading a 3-engineer team at Nagarro, where he built an Order Management System (Spring Boot, SAP Commerce) that reduced order cancellations by 85% across 62 fulfillment centers. At the CIC, he specializes in building production GenAI applications on AWS, such as a semantic search tool using vector embeddings and tool calling, an OCR + LLM pipeline that eliminated 10 hours/week of manual data entry, and a scalable SMS campaign system with LLM-driven intent detection. He also automates infrastructure with AWS CDK, CI/CD, and GitOps. His side projects include a deployed job search management app on a personal Raspberry Pi k3s cluster (Spring Boot, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ) and an expense analytics app using Spring Boot and Microsoft Graph API. He is looking for full-time roles starting May 2026 in backend, full-stack, cloud, or AI/ML engineering.