Dillon Khanna

Software Engineer

Building robust, scalable systems that translate complex ideas into real-world impact. I work across the full technology stack, from AI experiments to production infrastructure, always focused on creating tools that solve meaningful problems.

Tech Focus

Building with a modern, scalable toolchain.

Focused on shipping resilient platforms with thoughtfully selected technology.

ReactPythonAI/MLNext.jsPostgreSQLDockerAWSGCPFastAPI

Featured Work

Projects that blend AI with craft

A sampling of systems where I shaped the end-to-end experience - from data pipelines to interaction design - focused on delivering measurable impact.

In Progress

AI Document Management Platform

A RAG pipeline that transforms unstructured user documentation into a private, conversational knowledge base.

95% reduction in manual data entry across pilot teams

Technical Feat

Event-driven retrieval augmented generation pipeline on GCP with chunk-level security enforcement.

Problem Statement

Teams needed natural-language access to regulated documents without exposing data to shared or public indexes.

What I Built

Serverless ingestion network that normalizes documents, orchestrates embeddings, and streams grounded responses with inline citations.

Tech Stack

Next.jsCloud RunPub/SubPostgreSQLVector DB

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Proof of Concept

Tauri Local Search App

A private desktop app that performs semantic search over local files without sending data to the cloud.

Sub-50ms semantic retrieval on commodity hardware

Technical Feat

On-device embeddings pipeline powered by Rust and an optimized ONNX runtime.

Problem Statement

Knowledge workers wanted AI-assisted recall for documents stored locally, while keeping content air-gapped.

What I Built

Cross-platform desktop UI with background sync, vector index compaction, and fuzzy ranking tuned for short-form notes.

Tech Stack

RustTauriONNX RuntimeSvelte

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Launched

Incident Co-Pilot

Internal reliability tool that surfaces runbooks, metrics, and past remediation steps during live incidents.

40% faster incident resolution at peak load

Technical Feat

Realtime aggregation layer that fuses observability streams with conversational search.

Problem Statement

On-call engineers were context switching across dashboards and docs, slowing down response times during outages.

What I Built

Unified console with adaptive prompts, runbook snippets, and auto-generated post-incident timelines.

Tech Stack

ReactFastAPILangChainTimescaleDB

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Work Experience

Recent roles where I paired strong engineering with collaborative teams.

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Jan 2025 – PresentCurrent
Associate Technical Consultant
Perficient · Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Engineering AI and data systems across healthcare and content platforms with a focus on reliability and semantics.
PythonC#GCPAzureLLMs
Built an Autogen + Azure OpenAI agent that maps proprietary models to HL7 FHIR with ~30% fully accurate mappings, lifting analyst throughput.
Shipped a resilient C# ETL that migrated 5M+ OpenText docs into SharePoint with throttled batching, retries, and secure transfer.
Designed semantic metadata search to align internal column names to FHIR concepts using vector indexing.
Aug 2023 – May 2024
Teaching Assistant, Information Systems & Analytics
Miami University · Oxford, OH
Supported BI curriculum; evaluated Tableau/PowerBI dashboards and coached on data modeling.
TableauPowerBITeaching
Standardized rubrics alongside faculty to improve grading consistency across sections.
Mentored students on DAX measures and dimensional modeling fundamentals.
Jun 2023 – Dec 2023
Software Engineer Intern
Siemens · Chicago, IL
Built validation tooling to de-risk controller migrations and accelerate field upgrades.
C#XMLAutomation
Automated round-trip schema validation to catch mapping regressions ahead of deployment windows.
Owned a test harness that unlocked faster iterations for a field-facing migration tool.

Skills & Certifications

A toolkit tuned for reliable, human-centered delivery.

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Languages

Languages I lean on for systems work and storytelling with data.

PythonTypeScriptSQL

Backend & Infrastructure

Services, orchestration, and delivery patterns built for uptime.

FastAPINode.jsPostgreSQLDocker

Cloud Platform

Cloud components used to stitch together secure, scalable systems.

GCPCloud RunPub/Sub

AI & Information Retrieval

Applied ML capabilities for semantic search and grounded assistants.

Vector SearchRAG PipelinesPrompt Engineering

Frontend & Product UI

Interfaces that balance clarity with motion and accessibility.

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSS

Data & Analytics

Pipelines and tooling that surface trustworthy insight.

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Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate2024Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate2024Scrum@Scale Practitioner2023