Hi, I'm Prajwal
An AI engineer based in California. I build AI agents and the developer tools around them, right now emberd, a runtime that runs untrusted AI-agent code inside isolated microVMs. Before this I spent three years at Opslyft on cloud cost and reliability systems, then a Master's on adversarial ML and Android malware detection. I'm open to full-time AI engineer, backend, and full-stack roles.
Now
Open to AI engineer and backend/full-stack roles with end-to-end ownership. California, remote, or hybrid.
Building emberd, a Firecracker-based sandbox runtime that runs AI-agent code inside isolated microVMs. Also maintaining QuackCode and Gitwise.
Reading: AI Systems Performance Engineering right now, and papers on AI agents.
Projects
Run coding agents on your real repos on Linux, with safe isolation and full history.
Name commits and branches in seconds, without leaking secrets to the model.
Featured work
Re-Evaluating Android Malware Detection: Tabular Features, Vision Models, and Ensembles
Hosahalli Dayananda, P.; Chen, Z.
Compares tabular features, visual byte-plot images, and ensemble strategies for Android malware detection. Evaluates where modality choice changes the detection surface and where ensembles actually pay for themselves.
Writing
Talks
Data Transfer Cost Optimization
Rootconf 2022Granular visibility into cloud data transfer costs using AWS CUR and VPC flow logs.
View talkSimplifying Kubernetes Cost Visibility
Opslyft 2022Webinar on reducing the complexity of understanding and attributing Kubernetes infrastructure costs.
Get in touch
Open to AI engineer and backend/full-stack roles, California, remote, or hybrid. Email is the fastest way to reach me.
- Emailhdprajwal01@gmail.com
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/hdprajwal
- GitHubgithub.com/hdprajwal
- Resume/resume