Kalyan Cheerla
AI Engineer | Multimodal AI (Text, Voice, Vision) | LLM Systems, Fine-Tuning & Red Teaming | MS CS (AI Security, IEEE SecDev)
- Role
- Ai Engineer at Casper Studios
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kalyan Cheerla
Versatile and security-focused Software Engineer with ~5 years of experience and a Master’s in Computer Science from UNT and a thesis on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning. Demonstrated impact through real-world contributions such as a microservices threat modeling plugin, benchmarking of privacy-preserving ML techniques, and a simulated ransomware attack pipeline. Experienced in secure systems design, full-stack web application development, and DevSecOps, including containerized deployments, CI/CD automation, and self-hosted homelab infrastructure. Recognized with both industry and academic awards for software engineering excellence and rapid problem-solving in production environments. Passionate about security research, privacy engineering, and systems-level innovation through continuous hands-on experimentation.
Experience
Ai Engineer
Dec 2025 — Present
Contributing as an AI Engineer on internal web applications supporting hedge fund analysts, focused on LLM-powered research workflows, automation, and async AI pipelines.
Education
University of North Texas
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
BIIT Jr College, Guntur
Intermediate (B.I.E., AP)
Bhashyam public school, Vijayawada
S.S.C
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute Of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering
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