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Bengaluru, India
SOFTWARE ENGINEER · BUILDER · CURIOUS HUMAN

Hi, I'm Swapnil Sharma.

I build intelligent systems and things you can actually use.

From AI infrastructure and distributed platforms to keyboards and creative commerce — I care about making complex ideas feel simple.

Explore my work
Research
Systems thinking
Prototyping
GraphRAG
APIs
Distributed systems
Go
Python
React
Cloud
Observability
Iteration
CURRENT FOCUS / 02

From retrieval pipelines to distributed services, I design foundations that stay understandable as they scale.

GraphRAGAPIsDistributed systems
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SCROLL TO EXPLORE01 / PROFESSIONAL WORK
01 / PROFESSIONAL WORK

Systems I've shipped.

Production work inside teams at Asymmetric Labs, IBM and CaratLane — from AI retrieval to high-traffic commerce.

01 / Asymmetric Labs2026

GraphRAG retrieval engine

Knowledge-graph navigation over Neo4j and Qdrant that reasons like an engineer: a question resolves to an anchor node, typed relationships decide which paths are open, and each piece of evidence picks the next hop — revisiting earlier nodes or walking edges backwards until it reaches a supported explanation. Fed by a pipeline that turns textbooks and long-form documents into linked graphs.

Query “Why is my ESP32 not powering on?”

3V3 regNew regShortfixed_bycaused_byMeasure V5V USBESP32 off

Hop 4: Voltage regulator. Is the 3V3 rail shorted to ground?

  2. powered_by
  3. diagnosed_by
  4. depends_on
Hop 04Component

Voltage regulator

The ESP32 depends_on its AMS1117 to step 5V down to 3.3V. Its input is live but its output is dead.

Is the 3V3 rail shorted to ground?

  • Neo4j
  • Qdrant
  • Python
  • LLMs
02 / IBM India R&D Labs2025 — 26

Enterprise authentication proxy

Ingress auth with JWT validation and enterprise SSO (LDAP / OIDC) for an on-prem AI analytics service, extended into a reusable proxy across Guardium Data Protection.

CLIENTAUTH PROXYJWT · SSOSERVICEon-prem AILDAP / OIDC401
  • Go
  • JWT
  • LDAP / OIDC
03 / IBM India R&D Labs2025 — 26

MCP servers & A2A agents

MCP servers for Ansible and on-demand pods that let AI agents run automation and spin up workloads without manual handoffs, plus A2A protocol agents with Podman-based discovery across on-prem environments.

ANSIBLEMCPON-DEMANDPOD · MCPAGENTPODMANPODMANPEERPEERA2AA2A
  • MCP
  • Ansible
  • A2A
  • Podman
04 / CaratLane2022 — 25

Pricing & barcode engine

Led a Go rewrite with goroutines, channels and a caching layer — from two hours to thirty minutes.

75%Faster runtime

  • Go
  • Concurrency
05 / CaratLane2022 — 25

Engagement & A/B platform

Behavioural engagement and experimentation system on Kinesis, RabbitMQ and WebSockets, built with a team of three.

1.5MDaily visitors

  • Kinesis
  • RabbitMQ
  • WebSockets
06 / CaratLane · Open source2023

@caratlane/sqc

Sequelize query commenter I authored: hook-based SQL annotation without touching core ORM code.

18K+npm downloads

  • Node.js
  • Sequelize
npmjs.com
02 / SELECTED WORK

Things I've made.

A mix of products, platforms, and experiments. Different forms, same instinct: make it useful.

01 / PRODUCT / HARDWARE

Keymo

Handmade split keyboards, built around you.

Assembled by hand, one owner at a time — you choose the switches, keycaps, layout, colours and hardware.

keymo.in
02 / PRODUCT / COMMERCE

Prints Company

Photographs, framed with care — and 3D printing on demand.

Limited-edition prints from a decade spent wandering India and Europe, framed by hand. Plus on-demand 3D printing from the machine nearest you.

printscompany.in
03 / PRODUCT / AI WEARABLE

AVA

The ambient intelligence layer for your life.

A pendant that captures what matters, nudges when needed, and stays silent when you need to focus — powered by an on-device SLM. In development.

ava.swapnilsharma.in
03 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK

Curiosity is
the throughline.

I'm a software engineer who likes working where ambitious ideas meet messy real-world constraints.

Over the past 6+ years, I've built AI retrieval systems, authentication platforms, high-traffic commerce infrastructure, and developer tools. Outside my day job, I follow that same curiosity into independent products like Keymo and Prints Company.

AI & KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMSDISTRIBUTED BACKENDSPRODUCT BUILDINGDEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
Let's talk about an idea
04 / THE JOURNEY

Where I've worked.

Building at the intersection of engineering, scale, and emerging technology.

2026 — NOW

Asymmetric Labs

Senior Software Engineer

Building GraphRAG retrieval and knowledge graph infrastructure for more capable AI systems.

2025 — 2026

IBM India R&D Labs

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise authentication, AI agent integrations, and cloud-native security for Guardium.

2022 — 2025

CaratLane

Senior Software Engineer

High-scale commerce systems, developer tooling, pricing engines, and customer engagement.

2020 — 2022

Accenture

Software Engineer

Enterprise integrations, cloud services, and operational tooling.

6+YEARS BUILDING
1.5MDAILY VISITORS SERVED
80%IMAGE STORAGE COST SAVED
2→½HOURS / PRICING ENGINE
05 / WHAT'S NEXT

Let's build something worth making.

swapnil.sharma1998@gmail.com
Have an interesting problem? I'd love to hear about it.