Staff Software Engineer · Cisco Meraki · San Francisco Bay Area

Avinash Gosavi

13+ years building production systems at enterprise scale — I care most about distributed systems, API design, and reliability, and enjoy the unglamorous work that makes platforms feel solid: data modeling, integration paths, performance, and being useful when things break. These days that means Rails, React, Kafka, and Kubernetes by day; off hours I build privacy-first AI tools and write about the craft of software engineering.

Hobby Projects

VaultMem

Encrypted memory for AI agents

A Python memory library where the platform running the agent cryptographically cannot read what users store. Client-side encryption, encrypted semantic search, PII sanitization. Published on PyPI with a preprint on Zenodo.

  • Python
  • Cryptography
  • AI Agents

Rena

Voice-first AI health companion

Built for the Gemini Live Agent Challenge 2026 — a health companion you talk to instead of tapping through logging screens. Gemini Live, Veo 2, and Google ADK.

  • Gemini Live
  • Google ADK
  • Voice AI

Attractor

Brain-inspired memory engine

A memory engine modeled on Hopfield-style attractor dynamics — retrieval by partial cues and context rather than keys or nearest-neighbour distance.

  • Python
  • Hopfield Networks
  • Memory

daylog

Private voice diary

A voice diary with semantic search where entries and the search index are encrypted at rest, and no content leaves the device to answer a query.

  • Encryption
  • Semantic Search
  • Local-first

Experience

  • Cisco Meraki Staff Software Engineer
    2021 – Present
  • Handshake Software Engineer II
    2020 – 2021
  • CoStar Group Software Engineer II
    2018 – 2020
  • Dominion Enterprises — ForRent Media Solutions Intern → Senior Software Engineer
    2015 – 2018
  • Old Dominion University Teaching & Research Assistant
    2014 – 2015
  • Freewave Tech Solutions Software Developer
    2013 – 2014
  • Indiavidual (via Neosoft Technologies) Ruby on Rails Developer
    2013
  • Allerin Tech Ruby on Rails Developer
    2011 – 2013

Recent Writing