Distributed Systems & AI

Vansh Taneja

Computing Science (AI) at the University of Alberta. I build event-driven platforms, backend infrastructure, and applied ML systems that scale.

Distributed Systems ML Systems Data Engineering LLM Pipelines

Building

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Available for 2026 Internships Edmonton, AB
Focus Software Engineering · AI/ML
Current TA CMPUT 261 (Ongoing)
Go C# Python AWS FastAPI Kafka

Certifications

Validated cloud expertise and credentials.

AWS

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Foundational cloud, security, and billing best practices.

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About

Engineering reliable software with AI in mind.

  • Build software that is reliable, scalable, and easy to maintain
  • Bridge backend engineering with practical AI/ML in production
  • Ship solutions that improve user workflows and system quality
  • Backend services, APIs, and event-driven pipelines
  • ML systems including NLP, RL, and LLM guardrails
  • Cloud deployments with Docker and AWS tooling
  • TA for CMPUT 261 and testing the Tartan Smart Home platform
  • Building distributed systems and AI projects from my resume
  • Looking for software engineering and ML internships

Skills

Tools, languages, and platforms I ship with.

LLM Guardrails Event-Driven Systems FastAPI Kafka RabbitMQ PyTorch Redis PostgreSQL OpenAI API

Languages

JavaC#GoPythonC++SQL TypeScriptJavaScript

Backend & Systems

Spring Boot.NETFastAPIFlaskREST APIsgRPC

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (CCP)DockerGitHub ActionsJenkinsKafkaRabbitMQNginx

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisMinIO

AI / ML

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnXGBoostOpenCVOpenAI API

Concepts

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesCI/CDUnit TestingAgile/Scrum

Projects

Systems I’ve architected and shipped.

Micro-Netflix C# · .NET 8 · RabbitMQ

Micro-Netflix — Distributed Streaming Platform

Microservices-based streaming stack with separate API, worker, and storage services for independent scaling and fault isolation.

  • Event-driven processing using RabbitMQ background workers
  • Non-blocking video transcoding pipeline
  • S3-compatible object storage with MinIO
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Aether Go · Kafka · gRPC

Aether — Distributed Logistics Platform

Event-driven platform with Go microservices and Kafka to decouple order intake, dispatch, and routing.

  • Real-time telemetry ingestion via gRPC
  • Redis caching for low-latency fleet state
  • Async persistence to PostgreSQL
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Event Lottery System Android · Firebase

Event Lottery System — Mobile App

Real-time event lottery app with secure role-based access and fast check-in flows.

  • MVVM architecture with RecyclerView adapters
  • Firestore sync optimized for low-latency updates
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Software Quality Engineer Ongoing · CMPUT 402

Software Quality Engineer — Tartan Smart Home Platform

Designing test cases from system requirements and edge cases.

  • Validating REST services, simulator behavior, and state consistency
  • Documenting defects and regression findings for fixes
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AI Projects

Applied ML work with measurable outcomes.

DQN Autonomous Racing Agent PyTorch · RL

DQN Autonomous Racing Agent

92% lap completion with CNN feature extraction and stable target updates.

  • Experience replay + reward shaping
  • Diagnostics and real-time training metrics
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Spam Classifier (Ensemble NLP) Scikit-learn · NLP

Spam Classifier (Ensemble NLP)

100% precision/recall on 60k SMS dataset using ensemble voting.

  • TF-IDF + lemmatization pipeline
  • HAM booster to reduce false positives
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Experience

Where I’ve built, taught, and shipped.

Teaching Assistant — CMPUT 261 (Intro to AI)

Winter 2026 · University of Alberta
  • Led weekly labs for 200+ students covering search and reinforcement learning
  • Reviewed Python assignments for correctness and efficiency
  • Explained complex AI concepts with clear, structured feedback

Research Assistant — Data Engineering

Feb 2025 – Mar 2025 · University of Alberta (ACLMR)
  • Engineered fault-tolerant Python ETL pipelines processing 50M+ records
  • Partitioned datasets to meet API rate limits and memory constraints
  • Translated complex schemas into validated SQL datasets

Software Development Intern

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · Vita Actives
  • Deployed Flask microservices on AWS EC2 with Docker and Nginx
  • Built REST APIs with JWT auth and PostgreSQL dashboards
  • Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions and monitoring

Data Science Intern

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · Vita Activa
  • Optimized inventory forecasting using Random Forest and XGBoost
  • Built segmentation models with K-means and DBSCAN
  • Applied NLP to customer feedback for product insights

Education

University of Alberta — BSc Computing Science (AI).

Sep 2022 – Dec 2026

Edmonton, AB

Relevant Coursework

Data Structures & AlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringOperating Systems Database SystemsComputer VisionReinforcement Learning

Contact

Let’s build something ambitious.

Email

vtaneja1@ualberta.ca

Phone

+1 (780) 264-4853

Links

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