Sharath

Senior Software Development Engineer | Web, LLMs, Cloud, Docker

Veritus | SaaS Labs | IIT Hyderabad | Crafting since 2020

Open source contributions

Technology

Great with | React, TypeScript, NodeJS, Docker

Good with | NoSQL, NextJS, Vite, Vitest, Puppeteer, Tailwind, LangChain.js

I like | Svelte, Astro, LangChain, Cloudflare, Vercel

Employment

Veritus (Aug 2024 - now)

Senior Software Development Engineer | Spearheading all software development at Veritus

• Literature Review | Built Literature Review tool backed by custom ElasticSearch database with over 220 million records. 3x more relevant results than Google Scholar using similarity search.

  • ElasticSearch, Bun, Python

• Custom AI models | Hosted custom AI models on AWS using Docker and Python. Upto 100x cheaper than using external services like Cohere.

  • Docker, Python, AWS Lambda, ECR, GitHub Actions

• Payment system | Architected and developed one-time and recurring payment systems for the platform. Counting credit usage and recharges using Stripe and subscriptions using Stripe.

  • Stripe, Webhooks, NextJS, One-time payments, Recurring payments

• Manuscript Review | Built Manuscript Review tool with AI-powered suggestions and feedback. Simplifies 90% of a research paper's review process.

  • LangChain, Structured Output, ElasticSearch, SERP API, Remarked, PDF parsing

• PDF QnA | Built a chatbot that can answer questions about an uploaded PDF.

  • Pinecone, Cohere, LangChain, Server sent events, PDF parsing

• Team productivity improvement | Made the team more than 2x productive by integrating various tools into the product development workflow.

  • TypeScript, ESLint, Sentry, GitHub Actions, Vercel, Docker, LangFuse, NodeJS, EC2

• Rearchitecture | Pitched, planned and completed a full rearchitecture of the codebase from multi-repo MERN stack with JS to a monorepo with tRPC, NextJS and TypeScript with end-to-end type-safety.

  • NextJS, tRPC, Mongoose, Tailwind, Redis

SaaS Labs (Jun 2022 - Aug 2024)

Software Development Engineer (SDEII) | Played key roles for various frontend, backend and full-stack projects and features.

• Apex | Kicked off the rewrite of the JustCall codebase, setting up various base structures, tools and practices. Moving from PHP on a single server to NestJS, Remix, TypeScript, OpenAPI, Docker and Kubernetes.

  • React, Remix, NestJS, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Vite, Vitest, Docker, Jenkins, SonarQube, MySQL

• Search | Built a full-text search engine for the JustCall product family. This reduced the load on customer support by 30% and improved the overall customer experience.

  • Microfrontend, React, Vite, NodeJS, Shadow DOM, Algolia, Cheerio, Docker, Jenkins, Puppeteer, OpenAI

• JustCall iQ migration | Migrated out JustCall iQ from JustCall codebase to a standalone service. Upgraded from PHP 5 to PHP 8. Moved to a Kubernetes based deployment.

  • PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

• AI Notetaker | Built a bot that joins meetings, records them, generates the highlights and summary, and sends them to the user.

  • Puppeteer, NodeJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Whisper, LangChain, FFmpeg, Redis, Bun, Distributed systems

StoryXpress (Jul 2020 - Sep 2020)

Full-Stack Developer Intern | Learnt to resolve merge conflicts and working with a team.

• Built internal dashboard and a Google Drive like feature.

  • React, Webpack, NodeJS, ExpressJS

Freelance

htOS (Apr 2022 - July 2022)

DevOps Engineer | Built Hostel room management system for IIT Hyderabad | E2E type-safe codebase, designed for long term maintenance.

• Blitz.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, NextAuth, Prisma

covid19tracker (Sep 2021 - Dec 2021)

Lead Developer | Scaled to a peak 3 TB traffic per month. Spearheaded the project development from initiation to deployment.

• NodeJS, CDN, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, Docker, PostgreSQL

Office of Career Services (Feb 2020 - Apr 2021)

Web Developer | Built Frontend of IITH's placement platform. Moving from paper-based to digital, this platform reduced friction for companies, placement staff and the students by a large margin.

• React, JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, MySQL

Projects

• gai | The fastest AI command generator

  • Go, LangChain, OpenAI, GitHub Actions, Docker, bash, pwsh

• sca.run | My blog

  • Astro, Remark, TypeScript

• Self-hosted | Self-hosted services running on a VPS cluster

  • Docker Swarm, Cloudflare Tunnel, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GlusterFS, SOPS, Linux

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (Aug 2018 - May 2022)

Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Science | Software Engineering, Computer Networking, Operating Systems, Drones, Digital Logic Design, IoT and more