Karan Kardam
I am a Computer Engineering student at the University of Toronto, minoring in Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Business, interested in software engineering with a focus on machine learning and AI systems.
Experience

Building Perception Brain, an agentic RAG assistant on the Microsoft Agent Framework and MCP that answers ownership and onboarding questions with cited sources, served to 100+ daily users through the GitHub Copilot CLI.
Redmond, Washington

Built a two-stage multi-objective optimization framework (Differential Evolution + NSGA-II) for energy systems, and deployed Dockerized PyTorch surrogate models behind a FastAPI service with batched inference at 1.1s p95 latency.
Toronto, Ontario

Modernized a legacy COBOL tax processing system into a scalable C# .NET Core microservice architecture on Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure SQL, with a React + Vite + TypeScript frontend and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
Toronto, Ontario
Education
Projects
Publications
Renewable Energy Integration in Northern Canada: A Machine Learning-Driven, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Framework.
Bringing sustainable energy solutions to remote northern communities through machine-learning-driven multi-objective optimization.