Pushkar Reddy Katkuri

2nd Year CSE CVRH | Generative AI Reliability & Cost Optimization | Systems Enthusiast | Focused on Cloud IAM & GRC

Hyderabad India

About

2nd-year Computer Science student at CVRH working at the intersection of AI reliability, data tooling, and security. Focused on LLM efficiency reducing token overhead, optimizing prompt architectures, and preventing model hallucinations in production workflows. Experienced in open source systems engineering (binary translation and dynamic linking) alongside custom database migration utilities. Aiming for a career in Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) and GRC, with an emphasis on access governance, zero trust, and infrastructure compliance.

Skills

Gemini

Python

PyTorch

Product Management

Prompt Engineer

Git

Zero Trust Architecture

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Experience

Open-Source Contributor

Open Source & Systems Software

Sept 2026 to Present

• Contributed to low-level systems toolchains and runtime compatibility layers, analyzing C++ graphics driver logic and dynamic linking behaviors.
• Developed high-concurrency backend services including an asynchronous reverse proxy gateway utilizing Redis Lua scripting and sliding-window rate limiting.
• Implemented defensive Android security utilities focused on cellular traffic inspection, rogue base station detection, and zero-trust routing.

Projects

API Rate Limiter & Reverse Proxy Gateway

Lightweight FastAPI & Redis reverse proxy implementing atomic Sliding Window Log rate limiting, non-buffering stream forwarding, and traffic spike defense.

FastAPI

Redis

Lua

Docker

Python

RadioGuard - Zero-Trust Cellular Defense

Zero-trust cellular defense service for Android detecting IMSI-catchers, SMS blasters, and malicious network downgrades with automated safe routing

Android

Kotlin

Mobile Security

Zero Trust

Networking