Vaishak Menon
About Me
Recent Computer Science graduate with a versatile foundation in Python development, machine learning, and DevOps practices. Certified Kubernetes Administrator with hands-on experience in GCP, Docker, and Linux. Eager to contribute on a team—whether in Software Engineering, DevOps, or IT operations—and grow into a well-rounded technology professional.
Featured Projects
End-to-end projects. Architecture, deployment, and the parts in between.
ShakGPT — Custom LLM
A decoder-only transformer I built and trained from scratch to learn how large language models work end to end — 345M parameters, written in PyTorch. Not a wrapper around someone else's model: the architecture, training loop, and tokenizer are all hand-built.
Education
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Masters of Science in Computer Science
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
