About

Engineer by trade. Curious by nature.

I've spent more than a decade building systems that help people do difficult technical work with more clarity and less friction.

I started in backend engineering and network platforms. Today, I design applied AI systems for engineering and support teams—always with an eye on the details that make a system useful in practice: trustworthy answers, visible reasoning, and sensible guardrails.

I also like making complex ideas easier to understand. That's why I write, speak, and keep learning in public.

Vandna Sharma

What I bring

Applied AI

LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, hybrid search, tool calling, evaluation

Backend

Python, FastAPI, Django, REST APIs, distributed systems

Platform & data

Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Qdrant, ChromaDB

Cloud & tooling

Google ADK, LangChain, LangFuse, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Swagger / OpenAPI, MCP

The path here

2019—now

Broadcom (formerly VMware)

R&D Software Engineer 4 · Applied AI, developer tooling, and backend systems

2018—2019

Arista Networks

Software Engineer · Network telemetry analytics and data-platform migrations

2013—2018

Mojo Networks

Software Engineer · Backend services for enterprise wireless networking

M.Tech, Computer Science (Data Engineering), IIIT Delhi · 2011—2013

Outside work

I'm happiest making things in more than one medium: art and craft projects, dancing, yoga, and small learning adventures with my kids.

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