🚀 Software Engineer | Backend Systems & Applied AI | Distributed Systems 📍 Buffalo, NY 📫 Email | LinkedIn | Portfolio

I'm a software engineer with 4+ years building distributed microservices, event-driven systems, and scalable APIs across Python and Node.js/TypeScript. These days I work across the full stack with a focus on applied AI — agentic frameworks, LLM pipelines, and knowledge-graph systems. I care about clean system design, reliable pipelines, and shipping things that hold up in production.

🎓 M.S. in Computer Science @ University at Buffalo (SUNY) — CGPA 3.8/4.0

☁️ AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, SQL, Bash
Backend & Frameworks: FastAPI, Node.js, Express, NestJS, Spring Boot, Django, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
AI / ML: LLM agent tooling, Anthropic & OpenAI APIs, spaCy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow
Semantic Web: OWL, RDF, SPARQL, SHACL, rdflib, knowledge graphs
Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, NATS, Elasticsearch
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Nginx, Linux

🧩 Software Engineer @ NCOR (National Center for Ontological Research) (Mar 2026 – Present)

• Core contributor to a schema-driven microservices platform — Python services over gRPC, NATS event workflows, and a WebSocket gateway to a React frontend, with Protobuf contracts as the single source of truth
• Built an ontology validation & quality-scoring service (competency-question SPARQL, SHACL generation, FAIR/OOPS/release checks, multi-tier reasoning reports)
• Designed versioning, import/export, and namespace-integrity logic (OWL/XML round-trip via ROBOT, IRI hygiene)
• Contributed build/release automation and CI SPARQL quality checks to the open-source Common Core Ontologies (CCO)

🤖 AI Backend Engineer @ ProseWrite (May 2025 – Mar 2026)

• Architected a multi-persona agentic AI framework with per-agent prompts and temperature tuning, cutting prompt variance ~25%
• Engineered a token-aware async transcription pipeline (Deepgram + speaker diarization) handling files up to 10 GB
• Delivered an end-to-end Stripe billing system and a Manifest V3 Chrome extension for live meeting capture
• Deployed FastAPI + PostgreSQL services on Azure with GitHub Actions CI/CD and OpenTelemetry observability

⚙️ Software Engineer @ Bajaj Finserv Health (Jul 2022 – Jul 2024)

• Built scalable Node.js/TypeScript microservices on a Kafka event-driven architecture across 300+ enterprise deployments
• Reduced patient-record query time ~60% for 10M+ records via CQRS + Elasticsearch on Azure Kubernetes Service
• Implemented a real-time leaderboard with Redis Sorted Sets (<2s refresh) and a personalization rule engine
• Led containerized, zero-downtime releases with Docker and ArgoCD

📧 shanmukhasaikalasamudram@gmail.com 🔗 LinkedIn 🌐 Portfolio

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