Software Engineer Intern
European Space Agency - Villigen, CH
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Shivram Sambhus
Systems Engineer ⌐■_■
CS at ETH Zurich. Currently going deep into distributed systems, high performance computing and infrastructure. Years of backend/fullstack and cyber security behind that. Homelabbing, hackathons and CTFs for fun. 🇨🇭
Always open to chatting about systems, exploring new ideas or discussing interesting opportunities. You can reach me via Email or find me on GitHub·LinkedIn·X.
Places I've built things at.
Student Researcher (HPC)
Team RACKlette - Zurich, CH
Apr 2025 - Present
Slurm · Spack · Ray · VLLM · C++
Student Researcher
SPCL - Zurich, CH
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026
Under Dr. Marcin Copik · Serverless HPC Inference · LLMs
Software Engineer
Bewy - Zurich, CH
Oct 2025 - Apr 2026
NATS JetStream · Zero-Downtime Resilience · Stateful Recoveries
Teaching Assistant (Discrete Math)
ETH Zurich - Zurich, CH
Sep 2025 - Feb 2026
Discrete Math · Correcting Exercises and Finals
SRE Intern
Infosys - Bangalore, IN
Jun 2025 - Jul 2025
Go · Concurrent Build Systems · RCA · Fault Signatures
What I've studied and where.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
ETH Zurich - Zurich, CH
Sep 2024 - Jun 2027
Summer School Participant, Bioinformatics
EPFL - Lausanne, CH
Jul 2021
Matura, Economics and Law
Gym Oberwil - Oberwil, CH
Aug 2019 - Jun 2023
What I tinker with on weekends.
De Novo FGFR2 Binder
De-novo protein binder for FGFR2 (cancer target) that avoids the FGFR1 off-target. Built in 48h; I ran the Slurm/multi-GPU simulation side. Top 3 in the protein design track.
Agentic Go2 Platform
Split the Unitree Go2 into services talking over NATS: face recognition, voice, live A/V stream, an agent with memory. 2nd at Agentic Hack Zurich (ETH · DeepMind · Vercel).
Vital Infrastructure Portfolio
26 infrastructure stocks, inverse-volatility weighted. Sharpe >1.0 over a 10-year backtest, lower 60-day rolling vol than the S&P 500 in 54.6% of windows. 1st place, 5k CHF at Swissquote Campus Challenge.
NABLA Trading Platform
Recognized as the best class project - Python/FastAPI trading backend with order book and efficient matching. React/Next.js UI with visual node-based strategy builder.
Multiplayer Snake AI
RL agents beat baselines by 350% - real-time multiplayer snake with DQN, PPO, A2C. <50ms server latency. Endress+Hauser Award.
CS Notes
35k+ monthly users - the most popular ETH CS bachelor's wiki. 99.9% uptime.
SpendCast
Personal-finance chatbot with voice I/O, built in 48h at BernHack 2025. SvelteKit + Hono, GPT-4o-mini and LLaMA, PII masked before anything hits a model.
SkySentry
Low-latency object detection and tracking platform built in 48h - distributed services for capture, inference, tracking and live analytics.
Optiview
HVAC analytics platform - Apache Spark data processing, Delta Sharing, predictive maintenance alerts. Built at STARTHack 25 for Belimo.
Lecture Linker
Full-stack course material aggregator built in 2-day hackathon sprint - Selenium scraping, FastAPI, SvelteKit. 2nd place at VISCon Hackathon among 100+ participants.
VISCon 2025 Inventory Platform
Full-stack inventory and allocation system with approval workflows, conflict detection, QR support and printable labeling for event operations.
Typer Diff
Open-source TypeScript string comparison library. GitHub Actions CI/CD, auto-versioning. Peaked at 3k+ weekly npm downloads.
Textharvester
Threaded Python crawler I wrote to build NLP corpora. Depth-first from seed URLs with domain whitelisting, dumps URLs and page text. On PyPI.
Yearbook Photo System
Automated yearbook photo system with Supabase auth, Wallee/Twint payments, QR codes and PDF generation.
Biology Simulations
Genome probability, mutational evolution and virus propagation simulations built during EPFL's Bioinformatics summer school.
MMDL
Python CLI for archiving music from YouTube - async, multithreaded, published on PyPI.
BlockJumper
Polished Python arcade prototype with responsive controls and progressive difficulty scaling.