Sreecharan Desu
Software Engineer · Backend Systems · Product Engineering
Ongole, India · Open to onsite, hybrid & remote
Summary
Placed on-campus at Manusmriti as AI Engineer in Oct 2026 (manuscripts.co.in). Shipped 4 merged PRs to production at Mozilla FxA, Cal.DIY, and OpenSRE after maintainer code review (fxa#19929, fxa#20799, cal.diy#29673, opensre#3240). Full-stack engineer building web apps and SaaS - API design, PostgreSQL, auth, CI/CD, and Jest tests from scope to deployment. B.Tech CS at IIIT AP (RGUKT), CGPA 9.3/10.
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering | IIIT AP (RGUKT) | CGPA 9.3/10
2023 – 2027
Coursework: Distributed Systems, Databases, DSA, Operating Systems, Computer Networks · Minor in Quantum Computing
Pre-University Course (MPC) | IIIT AP (RGUKT) | CGPA 9.74/10
2021 – 2023
RGUKT AP entrance rank 967 / 75,000+ (2021)
Technical Skills
Work Experience
Software Engineer Intern | ABC Chess
Jan 2026 – Sep 2026 · 9 mos
Remote · chess education SaaS - school LMS still in production
- Shipped and still maintain ABC Chess (abcchess.org) - a chess education SaaS and school LMS used by coaches, parents, and students.
- Built coach dashboards, curriculum tooling, classroom flows, and RBAC from PostgreSQL schemas through to the UI.
Software Engineer Intern | DocgenAI
Mar 2025 – Apr 2025 · 2 mos
AI documentation startup · Remote
- Owned React frontend integrated with backend LLM doc-generation APIs (OpenAI-style request/response flows); tightened loading states and error handling for long-running generations.
- Added client-side response caching on repeat doc fetches to cut redundant API calls on the critical path (measured via browser network profiling); Jest component tests on core UI flows.
Open Source
Contributor · Mozilla FxA, Cal.DIY, OpenSRE
February 2026 – Present
- Shipped 4 merged PRs to production after maintainer review - Firefox Accounts authentication and metrics (fxa#19929, fxa#20799), Cal.DIY scheduling (cal.diy#29673), OpenSRE AI-assisted SRE tooling (opensre#3240).
- Verifiable merged contributions across auth paths, metrics instrumentation, and upstream code review - not portfolio-only forks.
Selected Projects
ABC Chess | Next.js, PostgreSQL, Node.js
- Chess education SaaS and school LMS in active production - play, puzzles, lessons, coach dashboards, and classroom tools.
- Owned features from Postgres schemas and RBAC through to the classroom UI; platform is still maintained.
SynapStore | TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Docker
- Pharmacy inventory backend using row-level concurrency control on stock writes and indexed Postgres for institutional admin search.
- Validated order flows under concurrent load in staging (k6); ~45% faster representative admin search queries vs. pre-index baseline.
UIDAI Systems | Python, FastAPI, Redis, Cloudflare R2
- Distributed pipeline for multi-terabyte biometric datasets - DDD ingestion, FastAPI delivery, and Redis caching that cut retrieval latency ~75%.
- Serverless Python ETL on GitHub Actions with private Cloudflare R2 storage; open-source analytics engine still online.
UniZ | Next.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Campus infrastructure in active production for 1,500+ student records at IIIT AP - JWT RBAC and resource tracking dashboards.
- Normalized Prisma schemas and indexes cut admin workload ~40% and improved common admin query latency ~25% vs. earlier schema (measured on representative queries).
Achievements
- Winner - Zenith Hackathon (MLRIT), ranked #1 of 38 teams (national level)
- 3rd Place - VR Siddhartha National Hackathon
- Flipkart Grid - Round 2 (3rd year), Round 4 (final year)
- Top 1% in state entrance examination - Rank 967 of 75,000+ candidates
Certifications
- Foundations of Deep Learning: Concepts and Applications - NPTEL, IISc Bangalore (May 2026)
- Object Oriented System Development Using UML, Java and Patterns - NPTEL, IIT Kharagpur (May 2026)
- Cloud Computing - NPTEL, IIT Kharagpur (November 2025) · Top 1% badge
Interests
Backend Systems · Distributed Systems · Open Source · AI Engineering · Tech content creation (YouTube) · Chess · Reading · Music · Dancing · Building in public since 2023