AI and data engineer with client-facing delivery across enterprise consulting, financial services, defense, and regulated medtech.
I've taken a legacy warehouse to a Spark lakehouse through go-live, and now I'm focused on AI security:
making agentic and RAG systems robust enough for high-stakes deployments.
- AI Security Engineer with NIWC & DIU through Hacking for Defense, reproducing RAG poisoning attacks from 8 papers and benchmarking defenses for a Navy-facing prototype
- Researching trust-aware graph retrieval, a GNN retriever that down-weights poisoned sources before they reach the LLM (extending into my Spring 2027 capstone)
- Under review at ECJ Data Science (Elsevier): modeling how fast community backlash decays online
- Open to AI Security, Agentic AI, and Data Engineering roles · graduating May 2027
AI Security Engineer · Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) & DIU, Hacking for Defense · Aug 2026 – Present
- Scoped the threat through 19 stakeholder interviews (Navy captains, NIWC directors, portfolio managers, engineers), narrowing 3 classes of RAG poisoning down to the highest-impact one: outdated or conflicting document versions that mislead even agentic RAG
- Reproduced attacks from 8 published papers to set evaluation baselines; now benchmarking defenses for a planned prototype
- Translating technical risk into defense-in-depth recommendations for non-technical DoD stakeholders
Software Engineer Intern · Verotech Solutions LLC · May 2026 – Aug 2026
- Built an agentic RAG decision-support system for Stryker, turning FDA 21 CFR 820 requirements into a client-facing compliance workflow
- Added source attribution and human-in-the-loop review using Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, wired into the client's existing compliance system
- Scaled reasoning to 200+ pages of compliance docs across 6-turn sessions, owning the Python codebase through review and handoff
Technology Consulting Associate · PwC India · Aug 2024 – Jul 2025
- Forward-deployed for 6 months with Aditya Birla Sun Life, working with the Head of Data inside a 40-member Agile team
- Owned 50+ Teradata → Databricks DDL conversions and 40+ silver/gold DML scripts for a medallion lakehouse fed by Azure Data Factory
- Ran daily validation with 6 business units through go-live, letting the client decommission Teradata and cut cloud costs 17%
- Built the client's CI/CD with automated testing (30% faster deploys) and Power BI observability dashboards (3× faster insights)
- Built LLM proofs-of-concept presented in sales engagements that helped land a new enterprise project
Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant · University of Florida (IC3 Lab; LATTE Lab - Engineering Education) · Nov 2025 – Present
- Built an agent-based NL2SQL tool (LangChain) giving an LLM function-calling access to the MIMIC critical-care database
- Improved transcription accuracy 33% with a locally deployed GPT-OSS-20B
- Maintain server infrastructure and CI for 600+ students a semester; built analytics pipelines presented at the UF Engineering Education Symposium
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Honorable Mention, Blackstone challenge @ ShellHacks 2026 (solo, 36 hrs) Shows how "diversified" holdings are secretly linked, like utilities and semiconductors through data-center power demand. A PostgreSQL knowledge graph with 20+ FastAPI endpoints for multi-hop traversal and shock propagation, plus a Snowflake Cortex agent that proposes new relationships for human approval. Built for blind and low-vision investors with narration and sonification.
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Trust-Aware Graph Retrieval (in progress)UF Applied ML II architecture project → Spring 2027 capstone A GNN retriever with attention that models documents and evidence as a graph, learning to down-weight poisoned or untrustworthy sources before they reach the LLM in RAG or agent-memory pipelines. Complements the adversarial RAG work with NIWC.
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Submitted to ECJ Data Science (Elsevier) Aspect-based sentiment pipeline over 160k+ YouTube comments across 905 videos using LLaMA 3.3 70B and RoBERTa (Gwet's AC1 of 0.98–0.99 vs. gold labels). Exponential decay models show AI-voice controversies fade 4× faster (0.48 days) than general game discourse.
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GatorHacks 2025 Upload a lecture, get a transcript, topics covered, and progress against the syllabus. FastAPI backend chaining Whisper v3 → Llama-3.3-70B, with async background jobs cutting latency 40%.
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| University of Florida · MS, Applied Data Science · May 2027 |
| NIT Trichy · B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering · May 2024 |
- UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Achievement Award
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate · Python & Pandas for Data Engineering (Duke) · Orchestrating GenAI Workflows (DeepLearning.AI)
Always up for research collaborations, AI security conversations, or data-heavy product ideas.
Reach me at sibiseenivasan@gmail.com or on LinkedIn.

