# Vaibhav Honakere > Software Engineer @ Wisk Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vaibhavhonakere With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz, my journey has taken me from academia to the cutting edge of cloud computing at Wisk. At Wisk, our team has pioneered a private Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform, enhancing data science capabilities with robust security and scalability. Leveraging my proficiency in AWS, GCP, and Python, I contributed to the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Alexa's architecture at Amazon, culminating in the development of a Flask Web Service. My focus remains on automating infrastructure management and championing secure, efficient cloud solutions. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Wisk Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States ### Software Engineer Intern @ Wisk Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States - Architected and deployed a private Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), designed to support custom data science environments with secure, scalable access within a specific VPC. - Implemented OAuth authentication with Google Authenticator using Terraform, providing secure access control and managing OAuth credentials within a cloud-native infrastructure. - Developed comprehensive Terraform scripts to automate the creation and management of the Kubernetes cluster, Google Cloud Storage buckets, and Network Endpoint Groups (NEGs), facilitating seamless and repeatable deployments. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States - Part of the Alexa team that is helping to integrate LLM into the architecture - Researching and testing out multiple LLM upon certain metric to find the best performance of each model with the help of Amazon Bedrock and Sagemaker - Created an entire Flask Web Service that would be running an LLM model when a request comes to Alexa, and hosted all under an EC2 Instance - Initiated security measures for external services using AWS SecretsManager (token authentication) - Implemented an in-memory vector database that store relevant metadata to compare user request to, and produce best results based on model response ### Software Engineer Internship @ Droisys Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Fremont, California, United States Part of a development team in reading splunk log lines, applying ML algos in determining the exception/error state patterns/severity/occurrence and publishing the server log analysis to downstream dashboards/reports for engineering reviews. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Droisys Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Fremont, California, United States - Supported the re-engineering initiative to generate an manageable design / flow-chart underlying an huge C++ code-base. - With extensive development in the last two years, this code-base had grown exponentially with limited abilities to understand the problem that it was trying to resolve. - Reviewed the code-base and its multiple dependencies in arriving to an design with which future enhancements will be more organized. ### Instructor @ Dublin Robotics Club Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Dublin, California, United States Help kids from grades 3rd-8th with mechanical engineering and coding in python/C to compete in Vex Robotics Competitions. ### Branch Manager @ Top Tier Learning Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Ramon, California, United States Manager of San Ramon district for TTL. Help coordinate sessions for kids who want to learn anything from basic level mathematics, complex Computer Science courses, and even SAT or ACT preparation. ### Tutor @ New Learning Grove Academy Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Dublin, California, United States - Taught younger students mathematics and science (Biology, Chemistry and Math up to Algebra 2) ## Education ### Computer Engineering B.S University of California, Santa Cruz ### Senior in Computer Science Dougherty Valley High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vaibhav-honakere-1ba32918a --- Source: https://flows.cv/vaibhavhonakere JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vaibhavhonakere/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11