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Dishant Pandauria

Backend engineer by day — shipping agent systems on the side

“I joined to help the team ship, not to switch careers. Co-leading delivery on SafeBite and TerrierTA forced agent design and evaluation into my day-to-day — the kind of constraints that changed how I think about failure modes and observability in production pipelines — skills I use when I build telemetry pipelines at New Relic.”

Bhanu Sharma

From data engineer to AI research — with papers to show for it

“I came in as a data engineer and ended up co-authoring research — SafeBite and the lab's AI-sustainability work, plus my own first-author paper. Doing it end-to-end, with faculty mentorship, is what opened the AI Research Engineer role at Dell.”

Varanjot Singh

HR systems specialist — learning research-grade AI without changing careers

“My day job isn't AI research. I joined because the team needed someone who could test, document, and ship — and I wanted to learn what people are actually building this year, not from a two-year-old course. The evaluation work on TerrierTA and co-authoring Knowledge-in-a-Box gave me skills I use when HR products talk about AI.”

Rajat Yadav

TerrierTA lead — full-stack from database to dashboard

“TerrierTA is mine to run — PostgreSQL to React — and the first product I've taken from schema to shipped grading pipeline.”

Vasudev Parmar

SDE II building platforms — first agent product, API to production

“I build enterprise platforms for a living — Kafka, Kubernetes, developer portals. Potluck was the first time I owned an agent product end to end: the API, the agent backend, deployment, all the way to production. That kind of full ownership is the part you rarely get handed at a big company, and it's exactly why I joined.”

Dishant Pandauria

Backend engineer by day — shipping agent systems on the side

“I joined to help the team ship, not to switch careers. Co-leading delivery on SafeBite and TerrierTA forced agent design and evaluation into my day-to-day — the kind of constraints that changed how I think about failure modes and observability in production pipelines — skills I use when I build telemetry pipelines at New Relic.”

Bhanu Sharma

From data engineer to AI research — with papers to show for it

“I came in as a data engineer and ended up co-authoring research — SafeBite and the lab's AI-sustainability work, plus my own first-author paper. Doing it end-to-end, with faculty mentorship, is what opened the AI Research Engineer role at Dell.”

Varanjot Singh

HR systems specialist — learning research-grade AI without changing careers

“My day job isn't AI research. I joined because the team needed someone who could test, document, and ship — and I wanted to learn what people are actually building this year, not from a two-year-old course. The evaluation work on TerrierTA and co-authoring Knowledge-in-a-Box gave me skills I use when HR products talk about AI.”

Rajat Yadav

TerrierTA lead — full-stack from database to dashboard

“TerrierTA is mine to run — PostgreSQL to React — and the first product I've taken from schema to shipped grading pipeline.”

Vasudev Parmar

SDE II building platforms — first agent product, API to production

“I build enterprise platforms for a living — Kafka, Kubernetes, developer portals. Potluck was the first time I owned an agent product end to end: the API, the agent backend, deployment, all the way to production. That kind of full ownership is the part you rarely get handed at a big company, and it's exactly why I joined.”