About Me

I spent ten years learning why systems fail. I now do that for AI.

I'm Manvi Sharma — an applied AI engineer focused on making agentic and LLM systems reliable enough to ship inside regulated enterprises. For nearly a decade I built and validated mission-critical systems at Workday, AWS, IBM, and British Telecom, where the job was proving that complex software behaves correctly before it reaches production. I now bring that same reliability discipline to AI: the model is rarely the hard part — earning enough trust that a real organization will run the system is.

I've shipped across regulated domains — industrial & chemical manufacturing, enterprise HR & financials, healthcare, and telecommunications — each with its own auditors, failure costs, and definition of "safe." I hold a Master of Business Analytics (MBAN) from UBC Sauder, where I also served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and I collaborate on research applying AI to surgical decision-making.

My Journey

Professional Background

Methanex Corporation
AI Intern
May 2026 - Present · Vancouver, BC
Multi-agent orchestration & AI solution architecture
UBC Sauder School of Business
Graduate Teaching Assistant
May 2026 - July 2026 · Vancouver, BC
Business analytics & machine learning
Workday
Senior Software Development Engineer Test
Jun 2023 - May 2025 · Vancouver, BC
Led automation & data validation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
QAE II
Aug 2022 - Jun 2023 · Vancouver, BC
Built automated validation workflows
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QE Analyst
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 · London, Ontario
Quality Engineering
BT (British Telecom)
Test Professional
May 2019 - Dec 2021 · Bengaluru, India
Test automation & RPA
IBM
Senior Technical Services Specialist
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Technical services & automation
Infosys Limited
Test Engineer
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018 · Bangalore
Test automation
Wipro
Project Engineer
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018 · Bengaluru, India
Project engineering & testing

Research Collaboration

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Surgical AI (ENT / Sinus Surgery)
May 2026 - Present
Collaborating with sinus surgeons on applying AI to clinical decision-making and surgical workflows.

Personal Interests & Hobbies

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Photography
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Yoga & Fitness
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Painting
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Podcasts & Learning
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Hiking
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Racquet Sports

Fun Facts About Me

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Creative Entrepreneur
Founder of HappyHungryHues, my photography brand. Captured 70+ projects-from weddings to Vancouver Fashion Week.
Home Barista
Mornings start with latte art experiments and a perfectly dialed-in espresso shot.
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Martial Artist
Red belt in Karate, training toward green. Strength, patience, and persistence matter as much outside the dojo as within it.
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Lifelong Learner
Always learning & evolving - building on ten years in tech to explore data science and machine learning.

Technical Focus Areas

Agentic AI & LLM Systems

  • · Multi-agent orchestration: Plan-and-Execute, supervisor/worker patterns, tool use & function calling
  • · RAG & retrieval: hybrid search (Azure AI Search), vector stores, chunking, grounding & citation
  • · LLM engineering: LangChain/LangGraph, structured outputs, prompt & context engineering
  • · Fine-tuning & NLP: transformers, BioBERT, PEFT/LoRA, named-entity recognition
  • · ML/DL foundation: PyTorch, TensorFlow, CNNs, LSTMs, ensembles, computer vision, time-series anomaly detection

Reliability, Evaluation & Platform

  • · Evaluation: eval harness design, LLM-as-judge, golden datasets, regression suites, offline & online eval
  • · Observability & guardrails: tracing, drift monitoring, attribution/hallucination checks, human-in-the-loop
  • · Data & pipelines: Databricks, Spark, ETL & crawling, feature pipelines, SQL, Pandas
  • · Cloud & MLOps: Azure, AWS, GCP · Docker, CI/CD, model versioning, FastAPI, Streamlit
  • · Languages: Python, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java

Education

UBC Sauder School of Business
Master of Business Analytics · Aug 2025 – Aug 2026
Focus: Machine Learning, Optimization, Business Analytics
Awarded Canada Top Talent Scholarship
Annamalai University
Post Graduate Diploma, Computer Applications · 2018 – 2019
First with Distinction
Punjab Technical University
B.E., Computer Software Engineering · 2011 – 2015
First Division with Distinction

Certifications

  • · NLP, Data Science for Business – DataCamp
  • · Intermediate & Introduction to Python – DataCamp
  • · Intro to GenAI, LLM, Responsible AI – Google Cloud
  • · AI for Everyone – Andrew Ng (DeepLearning.AI)

Achievements & Recognition

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1st Runner-Up — Google Cloud × Methanex Hackathon
UBC Sauder · AI-driven industrial anomaly detection across 200+ sensor channels.
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Canada Top Talent Scholarship
Awarded on admission to the UBC Sauder Master of Business Analytics.
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Digital Hero Award
Recognized for standout impact and innovation in delivery.

Speaking

Available for talks and panels on AI reliability, evaluation, and shipping ML inside regulated organizations. Prior speaking includes:

  • · QA Global Summit 2022
  • · Globant QUANTANXT 2021

AI Solution Architecture & Assurance

Alongside my full-time focus, I take on independent consulting as an AI solution architect — designing and de-risking AI systems for teams that need them to actually work in production.

Work spans solution architecture, evaluation harness design, agent reliability reviews, and readiness assessments for AI moving from pilot to production.

Available for consulting