Daniel Firoozabadi

Undergraduate Researcher

Jul 2026 — Present Now

Extending Dev Bali's FairInference project (SOSP 2026 submission), implementing scheduling logic in a forked SGLang inference engine using a spec-driven development approach with defined pre/postconditions.
Designing a fairness policy for hybrid prefill/decode batching, benchmarking against baseline policies on a GCP A100 GPU while implementing parallelization to bound latency interference across concurrent clients.

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2026 — Present Now

Cut Excel reconciliation from 4 weeks to under 2 days by building an agentic RAG system with LangGraph, Chroma, and PyArrow for a $10B-spend ledger migration.
Returned discrepancy lookups in under 3 seconds across 6,500+ SOX accounts via hybrid graph and semantic retrieval over 6 data sources and 6M+ rows.
Enabled 20+ Finance analysts to self-serve reconciliation by deploying a containerized ReAct agent with Docker, Kubernetes, an 8-tool toolkit, and a Gradio interface.

Software Engineer — AI Security (via Ascend Berkeley)

Jan 2026 — May 2026

Led architecture planning and built an end-to-end multi-agent penetration testing system coordinating reconnaissance, vulnerability classification, validation, and report generation with AutoGen, PentAGI, Nmap, and Nuclei.
Implemented human-approval gates, target allowlists, append-only audit logging, and an emergency kill switch; confirmed 5 valid vulnerabilities from approximately 10 findings in controlled environments.

Software Engineering Intern

May 2025 — Aug 2025

Built and deployed backend infrastructure on AWS Amplify, integrating authentication and CI/CD pipelines across development, staging, and production environments.
Designed 7+ normalized MySQL schemas and secure GraphQL/AppSync endpoints with role-based access control, reducing redundant queries by approximately 40%.

Software Engineering Intern

Jan 2025 — May 2025

Developed a PyVista 3D visualization framework for civil-site design, enabling engineers to simulate stormwater detention layouts in under 10 seconds per run.
Implemented a knapsack-based optimization pipeline across 9+ UGDC models and integrated OpenMDAO, reducing cross-module runtime by approximately 30%.

Research Intern

May 2024 — Aug 2024

Programmed autonomous flight behaviors for 5+ micro-drones using Arduino-based control of pitch, roll, and yaw, applying physics and controls principles to develop stable 3D flight patterns.
Designated as a contributor to the NSF award of $250,000 for the project "EAGER: Prototyping Touch with FLS-Matter."

Experience