Arsal Sajjad

about

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IRL (in real life)

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that’s me
Going to Mr. Beef, the restaurant one of my favorite shows, The Bear, is based off
Crescent Lake, WA — a quick stop for the sunset after driving the Olympic loop
World Cup 2026 — in the stands for Egypt vs Iran
World Cup 2026, Seattle — Egypt vs Iran, and I snagged section 100 seats
Malibu, CA — drove out before dawn to catch the sunrise on the beach
Cannon Beach, OR — camera in hand at sunset on a roadtrip down the coast
YC × DeepMind hackathon — 30 hours driving from Seattle on no sleep, 15 hours in the city
The Bean, from my recent trip to Chicago
New York City — a quick weekend trip
Y Combinator HQ, San Francisco — just the sunset
Recent trip to Chicago
Seattle — the Seahawks parade after they won the Super Bowl this year

Some quick information about me.

I’m a senior at Purdue University, and an AI engineer at an early stage startup, where I work part time on agent behavior and, most recently, our mobile app.

On the side I build open source at the seam of AI and infrastructure: an MCP server that gives an LLM real hands on network gear, a set of Claude Code skills for network engineers that was merged into ECC, and small transformers trained from scratch.

school
SeniorPurdue University
studying
Computer and Information Technology
concentration
Cybersecurity & Machine Learning
based
Redmond, WAWest Lafayette, IN
focus
AI agents, evals, infrastructure

currently

  • AI Engineer at an early stage startup

    part time · agent behavior

  • Finishing school

    purdue

building

  1. NetNerd MCP ssh, netconf, gnmi
  2. claude-network-skills merged into ECC
  3. tiny-tank 336k params, in-browser
  4. Vigil PR Scanner github action
all projects

recently played

Cooking

playlist · 22 songs

  1. Only over You Fleetwood Mac
  2. Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
  3. It Had To Be You Frank Sinatra
  4. Yes, I’m Ready Barbara Mason
spotify

SKILLS

ai / ml
LLM Agents, Agent Eval Pipelines, RAG, MCP, Harnesses
infrastructure
Docker, Git, GitHub Actions, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Linux
languages
Python, Java, TypeScript, SQL, PowerShell, Bash, HTML
networking
TCP/IP, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, VPN, NAT, SSH, OSPF, BGP