Prathamesh Yogesh Nadkarni
Experience
January 2025 - Present
University of Illinois
Graduate Teaching Assistant
CS 440 - Artificial Intelligence
June 2024 - Present
University of Illinois
Graduate Software Engineer
Publicite - A platform to optimize the searching and indexing of Research Papers and provide insights based on user-defined communities.
April 2022 - December 2023
Veritas Technologies LLC
Software Engineer
Spearheaded security-focused initiatives for NetBackup, including building a comprehensive ransomware defense system and integrating cross-cloud load balancing with Kubernetes (AKS, EKS). Led architectural modernization efforts, developed threat detection pipelines, and optimized cloud deployment resilience.
July 2020 - March 2022
Veritas Technologies LLC
Associate Software Engineer
Developed enterprise-grade security dashboards and implemented encrypted backup systems to enhance data protection. Engineered cross-platform certificate migration tools, reducing upgrade downtime by 40%, and contributed to secure authentication workflows across cloud and on-premises environments.
EDUCATION
January 2024 - May 2025
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Masters of Computer Science
August 2016 - May 2020
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Technology, Computer Engineering