Welcome — NIKHIL_SHANKAR.EXE

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Nikhil
Shankar

DevOps × AI Engineer · Detroit / San FranciscoMODEL NO. NS-2001 · SER. 004 · EST. 2019

I build the infrastructure that keeps AI products running — and the AI that runs on it.

AI & Infrastructure Engineer at Healmenow

MS, Computer & Information Science · Michigan-Dearborn

Open Work Eject resume

Portrait of Nikhil Shankar — PORTRAIT.JPG · NIKHIL SHANKAR

STACK

AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform

Ready · 5 roles · 7 projects · 2 degrees · 2 certsMEMORY

System Properties — Impact

IMPACT_012↗Hackathon wins

DodgeIT · Healmenow

IMPACT_02275↗Automated tests

Across 4 continuous integration jobs

IMPACT_03-30%↗Production MTTR

Reliability engineering at Complama

IMPACT_04-70%↗Environment setup time

One-command deployment at UMTRI (approx.)

IMPACT_0599.9%↗Uptime at peak traffic

Production AWS at Complama

IMPACT_060.8-1.4↗Seconds to first audio

Instrumented phone-agent budget

Numbers from the master resume — each one opens its proof6 READOUTS

Work — Explorer

Address:C:\PROJECTS\FLAGSHIP\DODGEITclick a project → opens in a dialog window

DodgeIT

HACKATHON WINNER

Your feed. Your rules. I built an instruction-driven filter that turns plain language into a quieter X and Reddit feed.

SYSTEM.DGM

YOUR INSTRUCTION

“No travel content, but allow local news.”

01X + Reddit
02Text classifier
03Vision if needed
04Reveal / filter

RECOGNITION: Hackathon winner
VERIFICATION: 89 automated tests
FOOTPRINT: ~1.4K lines · zero dependencies

JavaScript
OpenAI
Chrome Extensions
Node.js

Open case study Source

DodgeIT team at the Agent Harness Hackathon — DODGEIT · AGENT HARNESS HACKATHON

DodgeIT team presenting at the Agent Harness Hackathon — DODGEIT · PRESENTATION

2 flagship · 5 archivedSELECT A PROJECT

Device history — Experience & Education

RANGE2019-2026ALL ROLES & DEGREES

WORK

STUDY

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

ROLES

HealmenowAI & Infrastructure EngineerSep 2026 — present

ComplamaDevOps EngineerSep 2025 — May 2026

UMTRIResearch Associate · AI/ML & Multi-Cloud SystemsMay 2025 — May 2026

GetronicsSoftware Engineer · Full-Stack Public CloudMar 2023 — Aug 2024

LykiQ LabsCloud Data EngineerMar 2022 — Dec 2022

EDUCATION

University of Michigan-DearbornMS · Computer and Information ScienceAug 2024 — Apr 2026

VTU / JSS Academy of Technical EducationBE · Computer Science EngineeringAug 2019 — Aug 2023

5 roles · 2 degreesCLICK A TRACK TO OPEN

Control Panel — Skills

Languages

Python
SQL
Bash
PowerShell
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Swift
Go
Java
C
C++

Cloud platforms

AWSServices +

EC2 · EKS · ECS · Fargate · Lambda · S3 · IAM · RDS · DynamoDB · CloudWatch · CloudFormation · Route 53 · SES · SNS · SQS · API Gateway · Elastic Beanstalk · Amplify · Kinesis · EventBridge · Rekognition · Lex V2 · SageMaker · SSM · Glacier · EMR · Athena

AzureServices +

Azure Monitor · Network Watcher · AKS · VMs · Resource Manager · AAD · Key Vault · Storage Accounts · Blob Storage · NSGs

GCPServices +

GKE · Compute Engine · App Engine · Cloud Functions · BigQuery · Pub/Sub · Firestore · Cloud Storage · Cloud Monitoring/Logging · IAM · VPC