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# Khusham Bansal

## Role
GSoC 2026 Contributor @ Meshery (CNCF) · Cloud-Native & AI Systems

## Summary
Hi, I'm Khusham, a Computer Engineering student at Thapar Institute (CGPA 8.92) and a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor at Meshery (CNCF/Layer5), working across AI reliability, distributed systems, and full-stack product engineering. I ground LLMs with knowledge graphs, build agentic systems and distributed infrastructure, and ship product surfaces that load fast.

## Location
India

## Contact
- Email: kbkhushambansal@gmail.com
- Phone: +91-9464380089
- GitHub: https://github.com/KhushamBansal/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushambansal/
- LeetCode: https://leetcode.com/u/KhushamBansal/
- Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zNB0QHCn5YkywH_iOCTEaQg1nH5f88P3/view?usp=sharing

## Skills
### Languages
- C/C++
- Go
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript

### AI / ML
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- OpenCV
- scikit-learn

### Web
- React
- Node.js
- Express
- Tailwind
- Playwright

### Cloud & Data
- AWS
- Azure
- Redis
- MongoDB
- Neo4j

## Experience
### Google Summer of Code Contributor — Layer5 / Meshery (CNCF)
- Period: May 2026 — Present
- Location: Remote
- Selected under CNCF to develop Meshery, a cloud-native multi-mesh management platform for Kubernetes environments.
- Authored 70+ PRs to Layer5 across UI reliability, registry workflows, navigation, Sistent integration, and Playwright E2E coverage.
- Reviewed 130+ PRs across Layer5/Meshery.

### Open Source Contributor — Layer5 Ecosystem (Meshery, Kanvas, layer5.io)
- Period: Dec 2025 — Apr 2026
- Location: Remote
- Merged 18 PRs before GSoC selection (45 ecosystem-wide): Kanvas 11, meshery.io 4, layer5.io 3.
- Shipped cursors, GitOps/collaboration features, program pages, and mobile improvements.

### Research Intern — AI Institute of the University of South Carolina (AIISC)
- Period: Oct 2025 — Present
- Location: Remote
- Researching LLM reliability and techniques for reducing hallucinations.
- Developing knowledge graph integration techniques to ground LLMs and improve factual accuracy.
- Designing evaluation frameworks for accuracy and scalability with the Indian AI Research Organisation (IAIRO).

### Full-Stack Developer Intern — AltHire AI
- Period: Oct 2024 — Sep 2025
- Location: Remote · Seattle, USA
- Built landing pages for AltHire, MockMate, and TalentBoost.
- Cut load times by 70% through optimized component architecture.
- Reduced batch API calls from 7×n to ~10 total (98% less network overhead).
- Automated Playwright E2E tests and added AWS SES alerts for interview-agent connection failures.

### Summer Intern — Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
- Period: Jun 2025 — Jul 2025
- Location: Onsite · Patiala
- Built DriveSafeAI — an IoT + multimodal AI system for real-time driver fatigue and stress monitoring.
- Integrated computer vision, speech processing, and sensor pipelines for predictive safety signals.
- Used ResNet, DenseNet, MobileNet for visual cues; Wav2Vec2, Whisper, and CNNs for audio classification.

### Computer Science Expert — Chegg
- Period: Feb 2024 — Sep 2024
- Location: Online
- Solved 150+ computer science questions for students worldwide.
- Maintained a quality check score of 4.01/5.

## Open Source
### Layer5 / Meshery (CNCF)
- Role: GSoC 2026 Fellow · 70+ PRs authored · 130+ reviewed
- Period: Dec 2025 — Present
- Contributing across the Layer5 ecosystem (Meshery, Kanvas, layer5.io) — UI reliability, registry workflows, navigation, Sistent integration, Playwright E2E coverage, GitOps/collaboration features, and program pages. 45+ PRs merged ecosystem-wide before GSoC selection.
- Link: https://meshery.io/

## Projects
### Ivo — Agent, RAG & MCP Personal Assistant
- Description: Local personal AI agent with LangGraph orchestration (plan → tool calls → results), a FastAPI backend, a React cockpit, and SQLite + FTS5 RAG memory spanning semantic, episodic, and procedural recall with background consolidation. MCP gateway for Gmail, Calendar, and search, with human-in-the-loop approval on high-risk sends.
- Period: 2026
- Stack: LangGraph, FastAPI, React, SQLite, MCP
- Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16pp5bbNdyEUMzRb0Fj0CA-vsOgdfV82B/view?usp=sharing

### Milepost — ELD Trip Planner
- Description: Plans property-carrying HGV trips and generates FMCSA driver daily logs under the 70hr/8-day HOS ruleset — routing, required fuel/pickup/drop-off stops, and one log sheet per calendar day in home-terminal time.
- Period: 2026
- Stack: Django, DRF, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Tailwind
- Link: https://github.com/KhushamBansal/eld-trip-planner

### relayq — Distributed Job Queue
- Description: Redis-backed durable job queue with leased workers, exponential-backoff retries, a dead-letter queue, and idempotent enqueue for horizontally scaled consumers. Drained 2,000 jobs at ~5.4k jobs/s with 4 workers; recovered in-flight jobs after a crash; 200 concurrent idempotent requests collapsed to 1 job.
- Period: 2026
- Stack: Go, Redis
- Link: https://github.com/KhushamBansal/relayq

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