Harshal Vankudre

Working student, agentic AI security · Stuttgart

• Research secure execution environments—sandboxing, isolation, controlled resource access—for AI agents that run unattended.
• Prototype sandbox and policy configurations, and assess NVIDIA OpenShell as one candidate agent runtime against them.
• Document the security requirements an agent workflow must meet to run robustly and reproducibly.

Working student, sole AI developer · Malsch

• Built and shipped a production RAG assistant on the OpenAI API, in daily use by ~50 staff; tuned retrieval and prompting against real user questions.
• Built and operated the document-ingestion pipeline behind it, indexing structured and unstructured company data for vector search.
• Delivered a Microsoft Teams equipment assistant over 2,395 machines, routing between SQL inventory lookups, Pinecone search across technical manuals, and Gemini advisory answers.
• Built an AI avatar-video pipeline generating listing videos for used-machine sales.

Reference letter (PDF, German)

Working student, NLP and automation

• Co-developed an NLP customer-service chatbot and a GPT pilot that automated ~60% of tier-1 inquiries.
• Automated recurring inquiry workflows, and ran the supporting data analysis and reporting in HubSpot CRM and Excel.

Production · RÜKO GmbH Baumaschinen

Production RAG assistant in daily use by ~50 staff, and a Teams bot answering equipment questions across a fleet of 2,395 construction machines: SQL inventory lookups, manual search, advisory answers. Built both as sole AI developer, plus the shared document-ingestion pipeline.

Python · FastAPI · LangGraph · OpenAI API · Gemini · Pinecone · PostgreSQL

Open source

tmux-style tiling terminal for Windows that runs a fleet of parallel Claude Code sessions in one window, on real ConPTY shells. In daily use.

TypeScript · Electron · ConPTY · xterm.js · Claude Code

Open source

Desktop widget that reads local Claude Code and Codex logs for live plan headroom, session burn, and true API-equivalent cost.

Rust · Tauri

Open source

Turns one sentence about a student’s courses into a populated semester workspace: planner, assignment board, reading list.

Next.js · TypeScript · Prisma · Vercel AI SDK

Open source

TrueType font drawn from my own handwriting.

TrueType · Glyph design · CSS

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HKA)

Machine learning, statistics, data engineering, and programming.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Software development, databases, business processes, and Scrum; transferred to the practice-oriented Data Science program.

Konstanz University of Applied Sciences (HTWG)

Feststellungsprüfung passed.