Rushikesh Hulage
I build and ship production systems — from secure cloud infrastructure to AI pipelines that solve problems other teams rely on.
What I've built
Selected work across AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack engineering.
No projects published yet — check back soon.
Where I've worked
Professional experience building scalable platforms and intelligent systems.
Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
Telstra · Pune, India
- Developed and maintained robust backend services for authentication and authorization using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS (EC2, IAM, API Gateway), ensuring secure and scalable access for internal applications.
- Led the critical migration from AWS WAF Classic to WAFv2 for all internal Telstra applications, significantly enhancing security posture and threat detection capabilities.
- Architected the WAFv2 integration with AWS services including CloudFront, S3, and CloudWatch, and configured Nginx reverse proxies to establish a comprehensive security monitoring and response system.
B.Tech in Information Technology
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai
Aug 2019 — May 2023
HSC (Maharashtra State Board)
Residential Junior College, Ahmednagar
Jun 2017 — May 2019
Technologies I work with
Tools I rely on daily to design, build, and ship production systems.
Languages
AI / ML
Frameworks & Tools
Cloud & DevOps
Building intelligent systems at scale
I'm a Software Engineer at Telstra, where I own platform engineering initiatives spanning secure backend services, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI/ML — taking systems from design through production, not just the parts that are interesting.
That's meant designing secure authentication systems with Java & Spring Boot, leading a critical security migration end-to-end, and building enterprise AI platforms on RAG, LLMs, and cloud-native ML pipelines — the kind of ownership that comes with a few years of shipping systems other teams depend on.
A B.Tech graduate from VJTI Mumbai, I stay sharp outside work too — contributing to Hugging Face Transformers and placing Top 10 at the Google APAC Challenge 2025.
Milestones & Recognition
Top 10 Rank
Google APAC Challenge 2025
Participant
Agentic AI Hackathon, Bangalore 2025
Open-source contributor
Hugging Face Transformers
Machine Learning
Stanford University (Coursera)
Deep Learning Specialization
deeplearning.ai / Coursera
Let's connect
Have a project in mind, a question, or just want to say hello? I'd love to hear from you.