Vikrant Sharma

Data Engineer & Machine Learning Engineer

Adelaide, South Australia · [email protected] · vikrantsharma.info · github.com/Vikrant892 · linkedin.com/in/vik892

Data engineer and machine learning engineer who builds systems that ship. Eight open-source ML, data and security systems, 7 running as live public demos. Industry experience across AI systems at Voxon, data engineering at Nagarro and security operations at AT SecurDI. NASA Space Apps Global Finalist 2023. Master of Information and Communications Technology candidate at UniSC Adelaide, graduating August 2027. Open to internships now and graduate roles from August 2027.

Experience

Software Engineer Intern · Voxon

Aug 2026—Present · Adelaide, Australia

  • Developing AI capabilities for VoxelOS as part of a Master's industry placement: prototyping and integrating real-time ML models for voxel processing and perception.
  • Optimising model inference and deployment pipelines to meet embedded performance constraints, collaborating with firmware and software teams.
  • Building automated testing and monitoring for model behaviour to keep live demos and internal releases reliable.

Data Engineering Intern · Nagarro

Dec 2024—Feb 2025 · Gurugram, India (remote)

  • Designed and optimised dimensional data models on AWS Redshift and Snowflake for enterprise analytics workloads.
  • Built ETL pipelines that transformed high-volume transactional data into analyst-ready dimensional tables.
  • Delivered iterative client work via Agile and Scrum, collaborating with cross-functional teams of data analysts and product owners.

Cybersecurity Junior Analyst · AT SecurDI

May—Dec 2023 · Ahmedabad, India

  • Monitored SIEM platforms and triaged alerts to identify and escalate genuine security incidents.
  • Authored incident response runbooks adopted by the wider security operations team.
  • Performed OWASP Top 10 web application security testing for client engagements.
  • Conducted ISO 27001 and NIST CSF compliance audits across multiple client environments.

Selected projects, linked from vikrantsharma.info

  • Hybrid ML Intrusion Detection System. Real-time hybrid NIDS and HIDS: Isolation Forest, Random Forest and Autoencoder ensemble on CICIDS2017 with MITRE ATT&CK alert mapping. Master’s capstone, live on Hugging Face Spaces.
  • ThreatLens. FastAPI threat intelligence service correlating NVD CVE data with exploit availability and ATT&CK techniques into a composite triage score.
  • Credit Card Fraud Detection. Imbalanced classification pipeline (0.17 per cent positives, 284k transactions): SMOTE, XGBoost comparison, precision-recall threshold tuning.
  • Cosmic Keys. NASA Space Apps 2023 Global Finalist. Planetary data sonification engine built with Team Eklavya.

Skills

Machine learning
Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost, SMOTE, Pandas, NumPy, anomaly detection
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP Top 10, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SIEM, Suricata, Wireshark, incident response
Data engineering
SQL, AWS Redshift, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Apache Airflow, ETL, dimensional modelling
Web, cloud and DevOps
FastAPI, Flask, React, Astro, TypeScript, Docker, AWS, OCI, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, Linux

Certifications and awards

  • AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate (DEA-C01), May 2026
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Data Science Professional, Aug 2025
  • NASA Space Apps Galactic Problem Solver, Oct 2023
  • NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Finalist, Team Eklavya, 2023

Education

  • Master of Information and Communications Technology. University of the Sunshine Coast, Adelaide Campus. Jul 2025 to Aug 2027.
  • Bachelor of Computer Applications. CHARUSAT, CMPICA. 2021 to 2024.