Building Intelligent &
Secure Systems
I'm Abhijeet S Pachpute, MS in Computer Science @ University of Utah (May 2026). I build production software, ship applied AI, and care obsessively about security and reliability.
/ About Me
I'm an AI engineer at Paxel AI, a pharma sales intelligence startup, where I build the governed AI assistant that lets field sales reps ask plain-English questions of their own sales data. I care about software that is secure, reliable, and production-ready. My background spans software engineering, machine learning, and security, shaped by both academic research and hands-on engineering.
I started my journey in India, where I worked on early research, patents, and engineering projects before moving to the U.S. and completing my MS in Computer Science at the University of Utah, deepening my foundation in systems, algorithms, and applied AI.
Most of my work today sits where LLMs meet real production data: agents that are grounded in governed data, safe to run against a live database, and measured by evals rather than demos.
/ Education
What I'm studying and what I've shipped so far.
University of Utah
Master of Science in Computer Science
Aug 2024 – May 2026 • Salt Lake City, UT
GPA: 3.7/4.0
Relevant coursework
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering
Jul 2019 – May 2023 • Pune, India
GPA: 8.7/10
Activities
- Co-founder & Vice President of Meraki
- Member, Research & Innovation Cell and ACE
- Japanese language program (hobby)
Publications & Outreach
- Published 3 Indian patents and 2 IEEE papers
- Conducted cybersecurity awareness program at Pune Cyber Police Cell
/ Experience
Work across security, AI engineering, and backend systems.
Jul 2026 – Present
Salt Lake City, UTAI Engineer
Paxel AI
Pharma sales intelligence startup. Building a governed LLM agent and intelligence warehouse that lets pharma sales reps query multi-million-row business data across 10+ domains in plain English, safely.
- Built an intelligence warehouse over a multi-million-row pharmaceutical sales dataset in Aurora PostgreSQL, mapping 10+ business domains (including sales, accounts, contracts, products, GPOs, wholesalers, comp plans, contacts) into one curated, cited knowledge layer: numbered rules per domain, each traced to a data-dictionary section or application source line, validated and compiled by an offline build into a ~60K-token, provider-agnostic doc any service can build AI-native features on without re-modeling the data.
- Built the production AI assistant on that layer: a tool-calling agent that turns plain-English rep questions into SQL over their tenant's governed data, with service-side entity resolution (8 entity kinds, 5 matching tiers from exact to gated trigram) that binds names as parameters instead of SQL literals.
- Deployed the service on AWS ECS Fargate (dynamic task allocation) with Aurora behind RDS Proxy, streaming answers to the rep over Server-Sent Events as the model generates them; the full catalog ships in every prompt, reaching a 98.6% prompt-cache hit rate.
- Designed the governed data layer: 17 Postgres views that enforce tenant and per-rep row scoping (rep, director, admin) inside the database and fail closed when session context is missing; the agent's database role can read those views and nothing else, with no base-table and no write grant anywhere.
- Built the SQL safety gate with Postgres's own parser (pglast): only a single SELECT over allowlisted views and functions, bound parameters, an EXPLAIN cost gate, a read-only transaction with a statement timeout, and a post-execution check that discards results if a query tampered with the session's scoping settings.
- Built the eval harness (80 golden questions, 240 paraphrases, multi-turn journeys and an unseen question set) that grades answers value by value against a recorded baseline: about 90% accuracy across 270 graded turns (answers with no silently wrong number) at a ~5s median response, backed by 890+ offline tests.
Jun 2025 – May 2026
Salt Lake City, UTIT Systems & Security Intern
University of Utah • VP for Research
Securing research infrastructure for a $650M+ annual research enterprise.
- Engineered and automated endpoint management and security workflows using Python and enterprise tools (Microsoft Intune, Tanium, BeyondTrust), improving compliance by 60% across a $650M+ research infrastructure.
- Built and optimized scalable device provisioning pipelines (OS imaging, configuration, full-disk encryption), onboarding 70+ endpoints with consistent, policy-compliant deployments.
- Diagnosed and resolved system-level, identity, and network issues (Linux, Windows, macOS, TCP/IP, Active Directory, Entra ID), applying root-cause analysis to improve reliability and reduce recurring incidents.
- Collaborated across IT and research teams to support distributed systems infrastructure, balancing security, performance, and usability in production environments.
May 2025 – Aug 2025
Logan, UT (Remote)AI Software Engineer (Summer'25 Intern)
AVI Human Services
Built applied GenAI tools used by state administrators.
- Shipped a real-time AI SWOT analytics dashboard (React, Node.js, Gemini Flash 2.0, Docker, AWS) processing 50,000+ student records across 10 agencies, cutting analysis time 75%.
- Designed a LangChain pipeline with the Gemini API and vector embeddings for automated curriculum content generation, with a RAG prompt optimization framework that improved relevance by 40%.
- Built fault-tolerant REST APIs with Redis caching and tuned MySQL indexes, holding median response times under 200ms under concurrent load.
- Added automated alerting and graceful degradation so queries stayed available during partial failures, shipping in an iterative delivery cycle.
Jul 2023 – Feb 2024
Pune, IndiaSoftware Developer Intern
eWarranty Solutions
- Built a QR code warranty verification system (Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs), supporting 45,000+ products and reducing manual errors by 30%.
- Modeled the analytics pipeline as an async computation graph with Java CompletableFuture chains and a read-optimized MySQL schema, decoupling query latency from write throughput and powering real-time dashboards.
- Improved performance via query + architecture tuning and HikariCP pooling, reducing response time 40%.
May 2022 – Jul 2023
Pune, IndiaResearch Assistant
Research & Innovation Cell • RMD Sinhgad (Savitribai Phule Pune University)
- Supported research methodology design through literature reviews and synthesis.
- Trained students on statistical analysis, improving research accuracy by ~60% and contributing to publications and patents.
- Helped with survey design, data collection, and analysis for peer-reviewed work.
Jan 2022 – Jul 2022
Pune, IndiaCyber Security Analyst (Intern)
ShellStrong Technologies
- Resolved 7 high-priority digital forensic cases with mitigations like MFA, encryption, and firewall rule hardening.
- Ran vulnerability assessments using Nmap, Wireshark, and Metasploit, reducing issues by 30% and improving compliance.
- Implemented ISO 27001-aligned InfoSec protocols to reduce risk and improve operational discipline.
/ Featured Projects
Code that solves real problems.

/ Intellectual Property & Research
TASA: Virtual Assistant With Face Authentication
Ref: 202221066577
Safety H‑Shield: Wearable Security Device
Ref: 202221048969
TASA: Virtual AI Assistant with Multilevel Authentication
ICCUBEA 2023
Image-Dev: Advanced Text to Image AI Model
PuneCon 2022
Honors & Awards
Proof that I can finish what I start.
/ Technical Arsenal
Programming
- Java
- Python
- C++
- Kotlin
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- HTML / CSS / SCSS / Tailwind
Backend / Cloud
- AWS (EC2/S3/Lambda)
- Docker / Kubernetes
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Spring Boot
- Node.js / Express.js
- MySQL / MongoDB / PostgreSQL
AI / ML
- PyTorch / TensorFlow
- OpenCV / CNNs
- RAG
- Scikit-Learn
- Vector embeddings
Enterprise Security
- Digital forensics
- Wireshark / Nmap
- ISO 27001
- Vulnerability assessment
- Privilege management
/ Words I Live By
A few lines I keep coming back to, at work and outside of it.
- Impatience with actions, patience with results.
- You don't have to feel good to get started, but you have to get started to feel good.
- Reality is neutral. We shape it with our thoughts and how we see the world.
- Inspiration is a beautiful and powerful thing. When you have it, seize it.
- When choosing what to pursue, care more about upside than downside.
- Just go for it. No one cares as much as you think, and in six months, you won't either.
- The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
Let's build something that works at scale.
If it touches production, reliability, or security… I'm interested.