One engineer. Endless experiments. Build an agent. Ground it. Loop it. Evaluate it. Fine-tune it. Write it up. Ship it. Focus areas: Agents, Retrieval, Evaluations, Fine-tuning, Research, Systems, Voice.

Aryan Dokania

Research Engineer at Microsoft.

Building agentic AI for Copilot Studio.

aryan@portfolio:~$ ./ask_me_anything.sh

live

⏎ to ask · / for commands · mic to speak · paste a job description for a fit check

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$ cat experience.log

Research Engineer

@ Microsoftcurrent

April 2026 - Present · Redmond, WA

  • ▸Research Engineer on the Copilot Studio Engineering team, building agentic AI experiences and LLM-powered workflows.

AI Researcher

@ UC San Diego CSE Department

Jan. 2026 - March 2026 · San Diego, CA

  • ▸AI Agents & Infrastructure research on CodeNib, a multi-view data system serving repository context to coding agents.
  • ▸Co-authored the resulting paper (arXiv:2607.25431): reusable lexical, dense, and structural views per repository commit, with 8.7-25.4x faster graph/vector updates and 50-87% fewer trajectory tokens than grep/read baselines.

Software Engineer II Intern (ML)

@ Cisco Systems

June 2025 - Sept. 2025 · Ann Arbor, MI

  • ▸Fine-tuned large language models for AI code review, improving accuracy, contextual relevance, and integration into developer workflows.
  • ▸Developed an LLM-based code reviewer using AWS Bedrock and a RAG pipeline with Titan embeddings to analyze pull requests for logic errors, security risks, and design issues.
  • ▸Implemented optimized FAISS vector search using AWS Lambda for scalable semantic search and batch embedding generation, reducing processing time by 58%.
  • ▸Built a logistic regression classifier on SBERT embeddings to evaluate LLM-generated code reviews, improving F1 score by 15% through data augmentation and hyperparameter tuning.
  • ▸Worked on integrating AI Agents and MCP into the code-review workflow.

Graduate Researcher

@ UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering (Prof. Rose Yu's Lab)

June 2024 - Sept. 2024 · San Diego, CA

  • ▸Built a PyTorch-based meta-learning optimizer with adaptive momentum and gradient scaling using a two-layer LSTM and MLP architecture, trained on GPU across 100+ optimization trajectories.
  • ▸Benchmarked the meta-optimizer on five unseen optimization trajectories, achieving faster convergence than gradient descent and LSTM-based baselines using learned momentum coefficients.
  • ▸Published at ICLR 2025: "Improving Learning to Optimize Using Parameter Symmetries."

Software Developer 1

@ Oracle

Aug. 2023 - June 2024 · Bengaluru, India

  • ▸Upgraded the policy system's MySQL stack (v6.0 to v8.0), doubling replication speed and improving concurrency through InnoDB tuning and parallel replication.
  • ▸Containerized the Multi-Protocol Routing Agent and Policy Engine using Docker and Kubernetes, automating rollouts and reducing migration time by nearly 50%.
  • ▸Migrated a core service to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with a CI/CD pipeline, cutting deployment time by 90% and improving release reliability.
  • ▸Improved VoLTE call-flow performance by profiling SIP/Diameter traffic and tuning thread pools and queue depths, reducing signaling latency during peak load.

Project Intern

@ Oracle

Jan. 2023 - Aug. 2023 · Bengaluru, India

  • ▸Designed a fault-tolerant network architecture and automated failover handling with Python routing logic, enabling high-availability services with ~2 ms recovery in 4G distributed infrastructure.

$ ls projects/ --detail

$ cat skills.conf

[languages]
C++CJavaGoPythonSQLJavaScriptTypeScriptBash
[ml_and_ai]
PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnXGBoostHugging FaceLangChainAI Agents
[cloud_and_tools]
AWS (EC2, S3, Bedrock, Lambda)GCPOracle Cloud InfrastructureREST APIsGitDockerKubernetesMySQLMongoDBgRPC
[coursework]

Database Systems · Computer Networks · Operating Systems · Machine Learning · Distributed Systems

$ grep -r 'publications' research/

$ cat education.md

University of California San Diego

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

Sept. 2024 - March 2026 · San Diego, CA · GPA: 3.96/4.0

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

July 2019 - April 2023 · Vellore, India · CGPA: 9.4/10

$ cat achievements.txt

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SPOT Award

Recognized at Oracle for outstanding engineering performance.

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Merit Scholarships

Awarded scholarships for academic excellence in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

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